AVI Import Filter Problem

[Jaester]

Hi, this has never happened to me before so I am clueless.

I edit on Premiere and export as DV, then I load it into VirtualDub to compress it to XviD. Last time I was doing this procedure when I loaded the file into VirtualDub a "AVI Import Filter" small window popped-up and is said "reconstructing missing index block". The movie loads after that but only half of it! So I'm losing the last half aproximattely. It seems to be after the point where the AVI Import Filter goes into aggressive mode.

My question is what could be wrong with this particular DV avi that this window is popping up? It never appeared in the past.

Please help. :)

[stephanV]

If your AVI is larger than 2GB it might be that premier just writes a standard AVI which cannot be larger than that. Everything after 2 GB is considered as invalid data. It would also explain why VirtualDub cant find the index since it is always placed at the end of the file (so after the 2GB limit).

You can only solve this by a. letting premiere write a openDML AVI (but it probably cant), or b. letting premier never write files that are larger than 2GB.

[Jaester]

That cannot be the reason since I've had larget than 2G avi files out of premiere and VirtualDub loaded them fine. I cannot figure it out.

[stephanV]

Well then check your file with the riff-chunk viewer in the hexeditor of VirtualDub and look for OpenDML headers. If they are lacking this is your problem whatever you might have experienced before.