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Adobe Premiere Preview Rendering
Hi,
I’m somewhat of a new editor, and I’m trying to compile a video from different clips all encoded in different formats (mostly XVid, DivX and MPG4). My problem is, when I add such a clip to my project and then try to preview it by pressing enter, the rendering stops at certain clips. I have checked the codecs and I am able to play them seporately, I have even tried rerendering them as mpg’s with a 3rd party tool, but it will not play or render in Premiere Pro. The clips I’m haveing trouble with are usually MPG4’s, but I have installed, removed and reinstalled several versions of this codec, so I don’t see how this can be the problem. Furthermore, Premiere is lagging quite a lot. I have to wait a few minutes for it to stop after I cancel the preview rendering. I was able to freely render [as previews] before, and I have a modern system so I’m wondering what the problem could be? Any assistance would be great! By the way, I’m running in a ‘Clean’ environment, no background tasks other than necissary.Tim
[System Specs]
Win XP Pro [SP2]
Premiere Pro 1.5 [v1.5 5158]
Pentium 4 HT @ 3.2gHz
1 GB DDR2 SDRAM
2 SATA HDD [Total of 320GB] -
3 Replies
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Hi. I’m quite new at this as well and I’ve had your problem before.
Solution: Don’t use compressed (DivX-MPEG4, etc) files. They are “viewing” formats, not “editing” formats.
There are many ways to convert your files into Premiere suitable ones. I’ve found (and I hope somebody tells me whether this is a good idea or a bad one and why) that using Windows Movie Maker as a converter works Ok. Just Import the clip, post it in the timeline and the export the movie. You can choose the final file size/resolution.
Another option is using VirtualDub (you can find it in DivX.com). It’s a very powerful tool that can do many things other than just convert the file. Be careful when determining the output settings as you can produce HUGE files that are perfectly workable in Premiere but just too damn large. A great advantage VirtualDub has over Movie Maker is that you can batch jobs.
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Thanks for the advice, so you reccomend WMV as a good editing format? And by the way, what settings would you use in Virutal Dub? It goes much faster than Premiere, so I’ll use it. All I’ve been able to get are 27gig files, without using a codec.
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Just another quick note,
Even working with uncompressed avi’s, adobe freezes when rendering preivews for transitions. Either that, or it takes more than 5 min to render a 2s transition.
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