Divx Pro Help [Attn: Thrax]

Camman

I'm having a lot of trouble encoding through Adobe Premiere Elements using the Divx Pro codec. Thrax, I know you're like a codec guru, I read through yout DVD->DIVX article but couldn't find the info I needed, prime also referred me to ask you about this.

I'm trying to encode my videos after editing with Premiere into a Divx video file using Divx Pro 5.2.1. It renders and then the file comes out and it looks to me like the source video file isn't matching up right with the output or something. It skips, jumps, artifacts, and usually crashes just a few seconds into playback.

My source files are off a Sony Handycam Digital 8 camcorder, transferred via Firewire and captured in Adobe Premiere Elements as uncompressed AVI files. Here's a series of screenshots of the settings I'm using, but, I've been messing around with them trying to change things for a few hours now and the result is always the same.

I read the Divx Pro walkthrough for Premiere and it didn't help, and the Divx Pro manual doesnt have the info I need. I really don't know what I'm doing with this compression stuff, perhaps there is some key thing I'm doing that's obviously wrong, but I dont know what it is.

Any help from anybody would be very appreciate, and be sure to let me know if additional info is needed to diagnose the problem. Thanks in advance!!

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Thrax

You can set the framerate to 23.976; it might not fix your problem. A lot of camcorders capture at a real 23.976 and run a telecine on it in the process of recording; I don't know if the 29.976 option is a <i>real</i> 29.976 FPS, or the setting to give you 23.976 FPS which plays as 29 thanks to telecine.. So you can try either or, and see if your problem's solved.

Do you know if your handicam captures in interlaced? Most digital camcorders do, and if so, you're going to have to check the deinterlace button.

Your encode will be more accurate if you set it to two-pass.

Camman

tried those changes, no go. Here's a sample of what the video looks like after output, maybe will give everyone a better idea of the problem


http://www.totalgeekmedia.com/misc/divx.avi


(ignore the content, it was just the tape I had in the camera when capturing this morning to mess around with premiere elements)

Thrax

Yikes. Have you tried outputting a raw copy of the footage in something like HuffYUV and then importing that to another encoder like Gordian Knot?

I've never known Premiere to handle DiVX/XViD well (In fact, it sucks...)