Premiere Pro 1.5 no vid issue

[nickels]

I started with a full DVD, and clipped out a short mpg to add to our company's website. I used AutoGK to convert this mpg file to Avi (tried as both divx and xvid). The file imports into Premiere Pro 1.5 and the clip plays fine in the editor. But the sequence window and final output are both blank and without audio. Why does the file avi play fine in the Monitor but not in the final output? Also, I noticed that a Divx Settings manager icon pops up on my toolbar when Premiere plays the clip in the Monitor window. Please help!

-I am working on getting a screenshot of the issue right now.

Thanks,
jk

[zambelli]

I think PPro has issues getting YUV output from some file types. I've seen a similar behavior with WMV files too.
Try either configuring your DivX decoder to output RGB24, or encode your AVI to HuffYUV and set it to output RGB.

[Mug Funky]

try download the premiere avs plugin and use the avs files that gknot made directly.

there will be less loss this way too (you do not want to be using WMV or mpeg-4 as a mastering format).

[nickels]

The file from AutoGK (Mpg->Avi) is an Avi file. AutoGK doesn't really give you a ton of conversion options other then Divx or Xvid encoding. I don't know what an AVS file is or what creates it?

[theReal]

An .avs file is an avisynth script, it only contains text.
This script loads an input video file, sends it through any amount of filters defined in the script and then sends it to a program as a "pseudo avi video".

AutGKnot uses such an avisynth script to open the .vob file, resize and filter it, then send it to the encoder uncompressed.

I haven't used GKnot in a while and I have never used AutoGKnot, but in GKnot you could, after setting all parameters, save this .avs script and use it manually.

I'd strongly suggest you go that way, because even if you could edit the MPEG4 avi in Premiere you're losing a lot of quality when you compress to MPEG4 before editing.