VirtualDub frameserver and Premiere

[kefoo]

I posted this earlier, but the discussion died...

I'm trying to use the VirtualDub frameserver to serve up video to Permiere 6.0. When I try to open the .vdr file, Premiere reports it's an unsupported type, so I saved it with a .avi extension. Now Premiere says the file is either damaged, in an unsupported format, or in use by another application. Has anybody gotten this to work?

Kevin

[Dr Mordrid]

Premiere has no *.vdr support built in so you need to add it. This can be done using either AVISynths Premiere import plugin or VideoTools Link2 program.

AVISynth import plugin for Premiere

Link2 instructions

VideoTools main page

Dr. Mordrid

[kefoo]

I installed the AVISynth plugin. Premiere is still saying the .vdr file is an unsupported type, but .vdr files are listed in the file open dialog, so the plugin must be getting recognized.

I also tried link2. It says it can't open the .vdr file.

This is on Windows 2000, if it matters.

Kevin

[kefoo]

DOH! I forgot to install the AVIFile client. After installing it I can open the .vdr file in Premiere, but I only get audio. There's no video displayed in the preview window, but if I export a video file the video is there. Any thoughts?

Kevin

[Dr Mordrid]

Which preview window; Premiere or VirtualDUB's?

Dr. Mordrid

[kefoo]

Premiere.

Kevin

[Dr Mordrid]

Premiere doesn't display an export preview when it's rendering an output file, just that annoyingly slow bar graph. MSPro does, and with much more information in the process.

Imagine what it's like to frameserve a chain of programs;

VirtualDub => Premiere/MSPro => TMPGEnc

or

Premiere/MSPro => VirtualDUB => TMPGEnc

Dr. Mordrid

[kefoo]

Normally Premiere displays the current frame selected on the timeline when editing (not when exporting). That's the preview I'm not getting when grabbing video from the VirtualDub frameserver. The preview window displays a black frame with an 'X' in the upper left corner. I have a series of video files captured by avi_io that I want to run through some VirtualDub filters, then arrange on Premiere's timeline, edit out some pieces, and export to mpeg via a Premiere plugin. Normally I'd just save intermediate files from VirtualDub and import them into Premiere, but the amount of video is too much and I don't have the hard disk space for it.

Kevin