Whilst trying to export timelime to movie(avi) for some reason the process stops at about the 4Gbyte mark. I have windows 2000 pro with two processors plenty of disc space and memory. Can anyone help out. If my final movie avi is too large to get on a dvd, what is the defacto software that I would need to use. Or is there something in Premiere that would allow me to compress it down
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EdwardMartinIII
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Are you up-to-date on all patches and whatnot with your OS? Do so by clicking the start button and selecting Windows Update.
What are the details of your system?
What are your export setings?
What version of Premiere are you running?
You should be aware that AVI is not a useful format for a DVD -- you need to export as a specific kind of MPG file.
Cheers,
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Edward
"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
What are the details of your system?
What are your export setings?
What version of Premiere are you running?
You should be aware that AVI is not a useful format for a DVD -- you need to export as a specific kind of MPG file.
Cheers,
Edward "Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
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I have a sytem which is made up of the following
Windows 2000 professional with two Pentium 11 400 processors
Just under 500 meg of ram
Spare 40Gb disk slaved to the system.
I am trying to create a DVD of my sons xmas concert about 45 mins of digital (captured via firewire) I have added files for music and several transitions and a PTL file.
The disc that I am sving to is just a data disc that was originally going to be a primary disc in a win98 pc so it would have been formatted for fat. Windows 2000 pro uses ntfs doesnt it. Could that effect my problem. I seem to remember reading somewhere that premiere(6 by the way) deals with diferent OS's differently. Anyway you may have answered my question on the format of the file. It should be mpeg. Prior to getting a dvd writer I used to use something called tmpgenc to make svcd's. (seem to remember it took ages to process though) In order to get my 45 minutes onto dvd will I have to use something like tmpgenc and lose quality? I appreciate your help thanks...
Windows 2000 professional with two Pentium 11 400 processors
Just under 500 meg of ram
Spare 40Gb disk slaved to the system.
I am trying to create a DVD of my sons xmas concert about 45 mins of digital (captured via firewire) I have added files for music and several transitions and a PTL file.
The disc that I am sving to is just a data disc that was originally going to be a primary disc in a win98 pc so it would have been formatted for fat. Windows 2000 pro uses ntfs doesnt it. Could that effect my problem. I seem to remember reading somewhere that premiere(6 by the way) deals with diferent OS's differently. Anyway you may have answered my question on the format of the file. It should be mpeg. Prior to getting a dvd writer I used to use something called tmpgenc to make svcd's. (seem to remember it took ages to process though) In order to get my 45 minutes onto dvd will I have to use something like tmpgenc and lose quality? I appreciate your help thanks...
EdwardMartinIII
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Oh. If you're trying to write the file to the FAT disk, it'll stop at right about 4G. Have you considered reformating the FAT disk to NTFS?
Be sure you're up-to-dateon your Win2kpro updates. I wasn't and lost a bunch of data because of it.
I think Premiere can export directly to MPEG. Look under File >> Export Timeline >> To MPEG stream
Good luck!
Cheers,
Edward
"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
Be sure you're up-to-dateon your Win2kpro updates. I wasn't and lost a bunch of data because of it.
I think Premiere can export directly to MPEG. Look under File >> Export Timeline >> To MPEG stream
Good luck!
Cheers,
Edward "Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
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To be honest I have played around with premiere 6 for some time now and I have come to a conclusion.
You can make fantastic professional movies with excellent transitions and effects with premiere6 but....
If you want to then author a dvd forget it. It comes with CleanEZ which takes about 30 hours to create an mpeg2 but how on earth do you then use that (or an avi for that matter) to make a dvd????
I have switched over to ulead video studio which has and easy to use interface that will automatically create a dvd for you in a wizard format. There are also some cracking transition and effects in it. Thanks for replying to this post anyway. Merry Xmas
You can make fantastic professional movies with excellent transitions and effects with premiere6 but....
If you want to then author a dvd forget it. It comes with CleanEZ which takes about 30 hours to create an mpeg2 but how on earth do you then use that (or an avi for that matter) to make a dvd????
I have switched over to ulead video studio which has and easy to use interface that will automatically create a dvd for you in a wizard format. There are also some cracking transition and effects in it. Thanks for replying to this post anyway. Merry Xmas
Sorry to drag up an old thread but this topic bugged me for a while too....
My system is NTFS and it takes about 30 mins for me to burn a 30 min film to dvd with premiere pro and encore,
Edward is correct
"I think Premiere can export directly to MPEG. "
"Look under File >> Export Timeline >> To MPEG stream"
......as this is how I burn my discs too.
Alex
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