Avisynth clips in Premiere export as blank/black

[spicediver10191]

Hi all,

This is a bit complex so I'll hope you bare with me.

I have a 90 minute project in Premiere Pro 2.0 consisting of loads of Avisynth clips frameserved from .vob files on a hard drive, ripped from DVD.

Exporting to mpeg2 formats and authoring a new DVD in Encore presents no problems.

However I also want to create an Xvid version of the movie direct from Premiere.

Now....the various onboard export encoders in Premiere give me nothing but trouble, whether it be the Xvid encoder or lossless encoders like huffyuv. "Microsoft DV avi" exports come out blocky, so no luck with those either.

So...I'm frameserving from Premiere using DebugMode Framserver and trying to encode with AutoGK.

The resulting Xvid file looks and sound great...except for a 10 minute section where there is no video, only sound. After encoding is finished, I go back to examine the Premiere timeline and I can see that 2 Avisynth clips in the 90 minute sequence have blacked out. This section is exactly where the video blacks out in my resulting Xvid file. If I play round in the Premiere timeline for a bit, the video in those 2 clips reappears and play as normal in Premiere.

All very mystifying.

I use a 2.8ghz Pentium 4 XP system with 2GB memory and 3GB page files. The Premiere Avisynth Plugin GUI is set at 12mb for memory usage - I dare not go lower. Memory resources on my system are certainly stretched with so many Avisynth scripts open in my timeline, but I'm puzzled that this "blanking out" error doesn't occur when exporting the timeline to mpeg2 and wav files for DVD authoring.

BTW, the offending two clips have no heavy processing in their Avisynth scripts. One script inlcludes a simple resize command, the other contains nothing except the source .vob file's location.

Tips anyone?

[hanfrunz]

have you tried to render this section, before exporting. Maybe that helps.

regards,
hanfrunz

[smok3]

unlink those two offenders, render them to real media (huff or something), relink this new huffs and it should work (basically the solution is always the same, waste of time wondering why premiere wouldnt do something, depends on weather, ect).

[mikeytown2]

I think this would be a perfect case for AVSF. Mount the *.avs files and reload the resulting avi files in Premiere. It should work!

[spicediver10191]

Originally Posted by smok3

unlink those two offenders, render them to real media (huff or something), relink this new huffs and it should work (basically the solution is always the same, waste of time wondering why premiere wouldnt do something, depends on weather, ect).

that's done it!

thanks all.