[Lewis Costin]

Hi Mike,

Nope still stumped 🙁

[Lewis Costin]

Sorry I didn’t reply to this. I’ll PM you just in case this goes undiscovered.

All you need is Premiere (obviously), a frameserver (I’d recommend Advanced Frameserver), AVISynth, and a 32 bit build of ffmpeg.

Install and extract everything.

In premiere go file export media.

Select Advanced frameserver or debugmode frameserver depending on the one you chose. If there’s an option to write PCM samples into signpost avi, select it. This will render the sound in Premiere so you don’t have to in ffmpeg.

Write the signpost avi (for example “fs.avi”) by selecting render.

While it’s frameserving, create an .avs file in the same location as the .avi file and edit it with notepad. Put the following into the file and save it – note “fs.avi” is just the name I’m using in this example:

AviSource("fs.avi")

Open cmd.exe and CD into the directory your .avs and .avi file is. Put in the ffmpeg.exe file followed by the following parameters:

ffmpeg.exe -i fs.avs -c:v prores -profile:v 2 -c:a copy ProResMovie.mov

Note profile v:2 means standard prores 422. To use the others change to:

-profile:v 0 422 Proxy
-profile:v 1 422 LT
-profile:v 2 422
-profile:v 3 422 HQ

Let ffmpeg render.

Enjoy.

[Lewis Costin]

There are ways of getting prores out of a Premiere timeline on Windows but it’s quite complicated so I’ll only go into that if you’re really interested.

I’d recommend you use Avid’s DNxHD codec.

https://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/download/en423319

[Lewis Costin]

Nope no effect.

I believe those options are only for the preview files though.

There has to be a way surely.

[Lewis Costin]

Thanks for the insanely fast reply.

I’m not sure how to set the bit depth on a premiere sequence? I wasn’t aware I could.

[Lewis Costin]

Absolute superstar.

[Lewis Costin]

I’ve fixed a lot of these kinds of problems by re-wrapping the video file to a different container (.mp4, .mov, for example). In my case I guess they were corrupt.

Or it may be a missing codec in your case.

[Lewis Costin]

Hi James,

First I should clarify whether you’re trying to actually burn a DVD-Video (a disc that will playback on standard DVD players and the like) or whether you’re simply wanting to burn a file to a disc (which will only be played back by a PC or a device that can read the format)?

I’m going to assume you’re wanting a standard DVD-Video, so I’ll tell you the process I use.

The preset that that guide told you about lies under File > Render As > MainConcept MPEG-2. This is the format all DVD-Videos are in (so once you’ve exported your movie as this, there should be no further conversion required). Under this format you should see a list of presets. You’re either gonna want the “Program stream PAL widescreen” or the “Program stream NTSC widescreen” option (unless your movie is not 16:9 or wider), and then you’re probably gonna want to customize it. So select one depending on whether your in a PAL/NTSC region and hit customize.

The two options you probably want to change are your framerate and your field order. If your project is indeed 24p, choose 24fps and progressive respectively.

Once you’ve exported it, this .mpg file should be able to be used by DVD Architect to create a DVD-Video.

EDIT: Just realized you said you’re using Movie Studio HD Platinum 11, which I have no idea about unfortunately. I’m guissing for some reason MainConcept is missing.

[Lewis Costin]

MXF HD 422 50Mbps is good. I’d recomend making sure you’re on your correct framerate (probably 29.97, right?), changing the field order to progressive and changing the audio to 16bit.

DVD and Blu Ray are capable of having progressive video streams. And if all your content is progressive, I would recomend keeping it that way.

[Lewis Costin]

Almost all the crashing problems I’ve had with Vegas have been related to the GPU. Try turning off GPU acceleration whenever possible.