Strange problem with Premiere Pro plug-in

[Markwang]

Hi, everyone. I installed Avisynth plug-in (PremiereAVSPlugin-v1.5) and tried to import number of Xvid files via the same number of AVS files into Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, but it only allowed to import 35 avs', the rest were all error out, the message says: Avisource: Couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc Xvid.... Does anyone has a solution for this problem ? Your help is greatly appreciated .

[Zarxrax]

Do you have the xvid codec installed on your system? If not, you will need to download it and install it.

[Mug Funky]

workaround - don't have so many avs's (join a few together with ++), or split your project into sub-projects.

premiere pro is a piece of crap, but often a necessary one. you just have to use it in such a way that it merely passes everything through, rather than (god forbid) touching your video.

so do everything in yuy2 or RGB (it's probably being converted anyway), square pix, progressive scan (NO fields in premiere - it buggers them up every time. let avisynth handle it all), and set editing mode to microsoft AVI, with compressor set to something lossless (huffyuv is a good one).

also, don't use multiple sequences - switching between them will hang premiere and require the process to be ended manually.

also, don't use audio unless you have to ("killaudio" in avisynth is good for this) because it conforms everything uselessly to 32 bit float, only to re-truncate it to 16 bits on export.

in case you hadn't guessed, i truly hate this program :) it's a pain that adobe simply do not know how to fix bugs, but charge exorbitant amounts of money for pre-alpha grade software.

[Markwang]

Thanks for the reply. Premiere Pro doesn't seem to support Xvid codec, I found a codec(3ivx) that can be used in Premiere Pro to decompress Xvid files with a precondition that all mpeg4 codecs should be uninstalled. I still have no clue for the problem encountered,it must be something wrong between avs plug-in and Premiere.