Adobe Premiere Pro Problem

[Fastfly]

I am using Adobe Premiere Pro Tryout to create a Banquet video for one of my High School Sports teams. I am able to export a video in lots of different compression styles except DivX. Whenever I try to compress with DivX, which is what I wish to compress with, The video does not compile right. Music plays for a few seconds and the video screen is all green and either plays really fast. exp 15 second video plays for 3 seconds, the slide goes over all 15 seconds.

Anyone know what is up?

[Fastfly]

I can encode divx through intervideo winproducer. I forget but I think the versions might be different...weird no?

Do you think to be safe since you cannot change after you start a project...that I should just leave it uncompressed, compile, and recompile divx through intervideo winproducer?

[SonicVanguard]

Originally Posted by Fastfly Anyone know what is up?

Yup. DivX (& XviD) do not use traditional timecode. That's one way they save a ton of space for such high quality video. Premiere Pro (as well as any higher-end NLE worth it's weight) can only work with video that has a traditional timecode format.

Why do you want to work in DivX anyway? I can see if you want your final product in that format, but it's very unwise to work with a format like this.

When working with any NLE, use the lowest compression, highest quality video you can (unless you're working with DV - then you're stuck with the DV codec). You can always compress your final product to your heart's content, but you can't go the other way.

Dave.