Finalizing in Adobe Premiere?!

[Xenon14]

I'm working on my second project... the first I did a few nights back. I edited the video, added sound, etc. Now i'm trying to compress it, but the final compressed file gives me an error. I tried Divx, Xvid, 3ivx...all of which worked on project number 1. Am I missing a step? Perhaps I messed up a crucial setting... do i have to make sure certain things are in order? Thanks ahead of time.

 

[ethebubbeth]

could you please tell us your steps and settings you used to encode the file? I haven't used premier a whole lot but i might be able to be of some help.

 

[Xenon14]

I pick NTSC WIndows MEdia 720x480 video, capture it at 29.97 fps. I capture it, edit it, then i render the work area. Then I compress it into Divx 5.0.5. @25fps, 833 bit rate, 1pass-multipass, progressive encoding. I keep at Widescreen NTSC 16:9. Then i compress... once done the file opens up in adobe, I can here the audio but no video playback. If i open file in WMP 9, it just gives me an error. a program called GSPOT says that my file is not rendered, even though it is (or at least i think so). Not to mention, I have already finished one project a few days ago, and succesfully compressed it into divx, xvid, etc...

 

[Xenon14]

Note: after i render my workspace and then preview it - I can hear sounds but not see the video. So it's not that my compression is faulty, it's that my rendering is incorrect.... which means i ought to do what?

 

[ethebubbeth]

hmmm, you chose for it to do multipass encoding but only set it for one pass? In multipass encoding, a log file is written on all the passes before the final one which is used to optimize compression. Perhaps only the log file is being created and the actual video is not being compressed at all? Try again using the single pass setting for the codec and see if it resolves your situation.

 

[Xenon14]

I don't even have to compress it... after I render the workspace, and then try to play the video it is a black screen with sound. Compressing it, simply compresses the black screen with sound. So my compression isn't the issue, it has something to do with my rendering, I just don't know what.

 

[ethebubbeth]

well... when i say comprssion i meant rendering =/ the divx codec renders using it's compression algorythms. Have you tried using single pass encoding? If you have and the problem still hasn't gone away, then i don't know what to say.