Adobie premier DV to Divx

[p924]

I have a DV camera and Adobe premier. I've imported video at full DV quality and edited some home movies with my lame premier skills but I have not been satisfied with the quality of the compressed output. I've tried lots of different formats including divx (with which I've seen pretty amazing qualtiy/fileSize results from videos Ive seen posted online). I always seem to have pretty bad quality output.

If someone has a procedure that they use that works well to go from DV quality in premier to Divx, I'd like to know what you do.

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: p924
I have a DV camera and Adobe premier. I've imported video at full DV quality and edited some home movies with my lame premier skills but I have not been satisfied with the quality of the compressed output. I've tried lots of different formats including divx (with which I've seen pretty amazing qualtiy/fileSize results from videos Ive seen posted online). I always seem to have pretty bad quality output.

If someone has a procedure that they use that works well to go from DV quality in premier to Divx, I'd like to know what you do.

Premiere Pro does not support DivX. You'd have to use a third party program that can do that.

Here's some instructions for VirtualDub (great little free program).

Start by downloading and installing VirtualDub.

Once you have installed both VirtualDub and the DivX Codecs and also perhaps a MP3 codec like Lame or Radium, if you wish to encode to the MPEG-3 format. Then, start VirtualDub, and do the following :

File menu => Open video file - the orginal un-encoded AVI file

In the "Video" menu, select "compression", and set it to the DivX Codec (also try configuring the Codec settings, such as keyframes and bitrate - have a look on this page for more information).

Still in the Video menu, select the option "Full processing mode".

If your orginal AVI had audio, please find out what frequency it is (right click on the file and select "properties", it should be listed in the "Details" section).

Still in the Audio menu, select the option "AVI audio"

Go to the Audio menu and select "compression", and set it to MPEG-3 with frequency matching that of your original AVI file, and also bitrate to at least 96. You may need to turn on the "Show all format" option to see all available options.

Still in the Audio menu, select the option "Full processing mode"

Lastly, go to the file menu and select "Save AVI", and choose a name for the file (make it different to the name of the original AVI), and in a few minutes (depending on the size of your original AVI file), you'll have a perfect DivX AVI file.

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Again, there are other tools that will do this. Search around for AVI to DivX.

 

[p924]

Thanks for the info. I guess I'll need to export a full quality avi from premiere and then use virtual dub to compress it using divx. I wish I had terabytes of free space so I could just save all videos uncompressed. . . but I don't.

 

[p924]

Thanks this information was very helpful. I compressed a video from 800 MB to 100 with no visible quality loss. It could have been probably 30MB smaller at that quality if I had been able to compress the audio. For some reason if I didnt leave the audio at full quality, the highest available bit rate was 56Kbps (I did click the show all box. Before clicking that the highest was even lower). Not sure why this happened. . .