Hi. I have a 157-minute movie that I?m trying to lossless-export in sections from Premiere Pro 2 as an AVI, then transcode in HC Video Encoder to MP2 for authoring in TMPG Authoring Works 4. The final use will be factory-replicated DVDs to play on TV. TMPG works fine, but I cannot get Lagarith or UT Video codec to function without introducing artifacts into my AVIs. With Lagarith, these are rough horizontal white flashes (less than 1 second) in the upper quarter of the screen (upper letterbox area), and in UT Video (RGB), color flashes (less than 1 second), usually in the lower letterbox or entire frame. I?ve tried various settings of the codec and usually choose Maximum Bit Depth. Most of the resulting AVI looks excellent, but I don?t want to introduce artifacts. Under what conditions would these codecs produce artifacts? How can I avoid them? I do not mind huge file sizes for lossless encoding.
To complete my tale of failure, I downloaded HuffyUV220 and HuffyUV MT712, but neither codec found its way into my Premiere export compressor settings, so I could not try them.
With HC GUI (including versions 0.23, 0.24, 0.25), despite numerous attempts, I?ve not been able to import an AVI; I always get ?error loading Avisynth script, Script error: there is no function named ?SetMTMode? (F:\Exports\premiere.avs, line 1.? The wording of this error is different from the script that I type in Notepad and place in my F:\Exports folder, along with a clip ending with ?post.avi?:
SetMTMode(2)
AviSource("F:\Exports\post.avi")
Am I doing something wrong in terms of workflow? Is there another Avisynth command that I could try? (I am new to scripts.) All suggestions will be most welcome. Thank you!
XP Home, SP3?Intel DG965WH mainboard?IntelCore2Duo 2.66GHz?4GB RAM?88GB free on F:\
