I give up- it's back to WMM for me

[anoel]

So I've spent hours and hours, practically all day yesterday, trying to get my hundreds of Whose Line episodes into Adobe Premiere but it looks like I've failed. Since they're encoded with xvid for the most part, I have to use avisynth to get them in there and tons of avs files, as it turns out, is almost guarenteed to crash Premiere everytime no matter how low I set the memory max to. First it took me forever to label all the episodes (multiple times for changes) and THEN I figured out there was easier ways to do that (thanks avisynth.org for the batch file naming and avisynthesizer for the templates). I tried putting multiple episodes together in one avs but there were different framerates/formats that prevented me from doing that half of the time. And the ones I did get it working in, when I tried to import them into Premiere, it still crashed it and ffdshow (which I use to render the files in Premiere) kept making multiple appearances in my quick launch bar as well and so now I just don't see any solution. I've searched the internet for hours and asked for help and that's not getting me anywhere so I'm done with that. My problem solving skills always run out when I don't see any more steps I can take and it looks like there are just too many episodes of WL to use Premiere with. If only I had the dvds...I wish they would just come out already! Sometimes I really hate technology...but at least I've learned more about it from this whole ordeal.

So I'm going back to using Windows Movie Maker which is working now that I've disabled ffdshow from the codecs to use. Haven't used it for a loong time but its a good program for doing some basic vidding and from my past experiences I know how to work it pretty well and even can kind of vid nonlinearly on it. I'll just be happy to vid again and vid my Whose Line ideas which I reeeally want to do. Vidding always helps me release some of my obsession.

Also, I'm once again behind on comments. Damn me and my I don't feel like writing excuses.

Comments

[littleli.livejournal.com]

I have used to have WMM2 but every time I used it, it made the computer go wonky. I couldn't get anything done or saved in time before it would freeze again and it got to a point where it would freeze even if you just opened the program. Does that happen to you? I finally got fed up with it and said, screw it.

But I miss vidding. And since you use it...what's this about disabling ffdshow in codecs?

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, WMM used to always crash on me as well. It has issues with codecs as well with memory. Mine kept crashing as well which is why I didn't even try to use it but disabling the ffdshow (or other ones I've heard) seems to have fixed it. What you do is go to Tools->Options and then go to the Compatibility tab and you can turn off ffdshow or other codecs until it stops crashing on you. Other helpful sites to check out too are: http://www.papajohn.org/ (go to problem solving on the left) and WMM2 forums here: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/. Both have helped me out.

I really hope that it works for you and you start vidding again. It's a lot of fun and I'd love to see vids from you :)

[littleli.livejournal.com]

Ooh thanks so much! :)

[fenlings]

I also had a problem with Adobe and xvid files, but I found a solution! Download avic and load the xvid file into it. Then just change both fields to divx, and it should work when you import it into adobe. I don't know if this will help you, but thought I'd just put it out there. ^_^

[anoel.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll try it :)