Getting my divx files into Premiere (was: Here is my problem......)

[Valandil]

I have two DivX avi files that equal one movie and each of them is about 716MB. I want to use them in Adobe Premiere 6.0 but Premiere doesnt support DivX files. I have tried converting them in VirtualDub, XMPEG, GKnot, etc., but nothing seems to work in getting the files into a usable format for Premiere. I just need a program that will convert the files into a format that works with Premiere and keeps the files about the same size. I've tried converting them to an uncompressed avi format and a minute of film is like 1GB.

How about converting them to MPEG2?

I've spent hours trying to make this work and have not had any success.

Do many people rip DVDs, convert them, and make compilations in Adobe Premiere?

[Matthew]

Originally posted by Valandil
How about converting them to MPEG2?

MPEG2 is limited for editing as well, premiere would want to decompress and rencode it (=quality loss).

You might want to look into lossless or nearloss avi compression techniques like huffyuv or mjpeg. The file size is still large though but much better than purely uncompressed avi.

If you just want short clips (what does compilations mean?) or something then you are better off cutting with vdub then using premiere, saves some HD space.

I don't do this sort of thing myself so that exhausts my knowledge on the matter.

[killingspree]

hi,
well you got a couple of possibilities:

first of, if you rip a dvd to edit it in premiere, you do not convert it to divx, but rather you frameserver directly from the mpeg2 streams to premiere, and encode the readily edited movie afterwards!

and here is my recommendation, of how to get your files into premiere:

either follow the tip matthew gave you, convert the video to Huffyuv (no quality loss) and load this into premiere, OR, create a simple avs script with Avisource(), then create a so-called fake avi from it (use ffdshow for this purpose, on details how to do that, search the forum) and load this fake avi into premiere. this will be a little slower since the computer has to decode the frames on-the-fly and serve it to premiere, but it will save you an awefull lot of diskspace!

hth
steVe
PS: pls use a descriptive thread title next time you post a question!!

[Valandil]

Okay, I was able to take my VOB file, load it into DGIndex, create a D2V file then I made an .avs file with the following:

LoadPlugin("d:\MPEGdecoder.dll")
mpegsource("d:\filename1.vob+d:\filename2.vob")

then i opened up the avs file in ffdshow and it worked and I got the fake avi file to play in Adobe Premiere. But, there is no audio, its a little distorted and it plays faster than normal.

What did I do wrong? (i'm sure there could be a million things)

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

[Krismen]

Maybe you should try to use the following avs plugin for Adobe:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/videoeditorskit

[killingspree]

ok a few hints:
- pls use dgdecode or mpeg2dec3 (and not mpegdecoder.dll)
- mpegsource is a video only plugin, so you'll need to load the audio seperately (e.g. using ac3source or mpasource) then 'mux' the audio in avisynth with the AudioDub() function
- what do you exactly mean by distored (do you get jittery playback and some horizontal lines?) - then it's most likely interlacing, so you'll need to use a deinterlacer plugin too!
- try the avs plugin, definitely sounds interesting! :)

hth
steVe