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[Perry Cheng]

Bennie,
The problem you described seems inconcievable to me. Just to clarify: when you export the movie as avi, what size of avi you define that as (look at the export setting)? BTW, are you saying 1. you export a movie say 10min long, 1 min of it has some acceleration or decel, that min portion of the 10min movie strinks in size? Or 2. are you exporting 2 different avi files and they are in diff size? Or 3. are you exporting that 1min and compare to the original avi, they are different size?

Perry

[Bennie Johnson]

Number 1 is right =P

Sry for being unclear…

And my movie is 720×480

[Perry Cheng]

Are you sure there is nothing else applied to that portion of the clip? Check to see if size property of the motion has been applied. If not, then, this is definitely not normal. Which version of Premiere you have? What is the original video source format anyway, i.e. codec?

Sorry could not help much so far.

Perry

[Bennie Johnson]

I looked at the clips size in the “effect controls”, and it is exactly the same as the rest of the movie. Furthermore, I see no difference between the size of the clips when I watch my movie in the monitor (before exporting anything); the problem surely occurs during the exporting.

I am using Adobe Premiere Pro v7.0, which is not the latest one…

My video comes from a Dvd, and it is an animated movie. To extract it, I used VirtualDubMod, and AviSynth (code:
Telecide(order=0)
Decimate(cycle=5, mode=3, threshold=1.0)
AssumeFPS(24)
LanczosResize(720,480) )

To export my video, I’m using the “Lagarith losless” codec.

Maybe the codec isn’t performant enough to deal with acc., dec., and reverse…

Do you think the problem happens because of the codec or Premiere itself?

Thanks a lot for your help 🙂

[Perry Cheng]

Bennie,
I suspect the problem might come from 2 places. Can you try to export using MS DV avi instead of the lossless codec to see if same happen? Second, I am not sure the 7.0 version is the same as PPro 1.0. It should say PPro 1.0 or it may not legit, and that might be the problem? (I am just running out of idea).

Perry

[Bennie Johnson]

I tried with another codec, but it’s still not working. Could Avisynth be the problem? (I didn’t import an .avi file for the video (I tried, but it wasn’t woking), but a .Vob file modified with Avisynth.)

Normally, acc., dec., and reverse work perfectly when I’m using videos that I filmed with my camera; that’s why I think the problem might be Avisynth… If that’s it, I hope there’s something I can do with the Avisynth code to clear the problem, because I don’t want to remake my video which is quite long…

Finally, for the software version, I think Ppro 1.0 and P 7.0 are the same, aren’t they?

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Perry Cheng]

Bennie,
avi is just a containter, like mov. Yes, you need to convert it to an PPro acceptable avi or mov or MPEG (like you have), in order for it to read and process properly. I think you nailed the problem, however, can you just isolate that segment and put it on a different sequence, render it out to dv avi and then import it back to the final sequence?

Perry