Joining or Fusing two .rm or .wmv files?

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

I am at my wit's end. I am using Adobe Premiere Pro 7, and I created a 03:40 minute video using a mixture of XVID and DivX encoded clips. These days I prefer to compress my clips using XVID. However, my program has a problem with (apparently) the XVID clips, and will change them into a blank screen. This problem is easily fixed by restarting the program, since it doesn't start doing it until about 15 minutes after I start using the program.

However, now I am trying to finalize my video, and I've tried just about every encoding format, and always at around 02:54 minutes, the screen starts turning blank.

So now I'm thinking, what if I just cut my video in half, and encode the two parts separately, and then fuse them together using some kind of software? Any ideas on software that can "join" or "fuse" high quality .wmv or .rm files? Thanks in advance.

Comments

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

That's exactly how I used to use clips too. Then I started to use the Monitor window in Premiere to easily take small sections from larger clips and bring them to the timeline. Then, when vidding from DVDs for example, I can put a couple hours worth of ripped chapters into one avisynth .avs file, and just scroll through to get the clips I want. Have to have some clue of what I'm looking for though. Too many .avs files and Premiere does get pissy. ;]

Anyway, if that's not terribly appealing, then I'd start checking out other codec options. Maybe look into saving up for more harddrive space so that you could use one of the lossless codecs. They compress more than an uncompressed AVI, but they're still large.

I tried the method of exporting to movie instead of Media Encoder, and I get files that are 800 MB or larger. The quality is great, but the file size is too large.

If you find a codec that you like, that would be where you would adjust the settings to choose it. I was suggesting it more as a stop-gap solution. If you have the room to store the large files of your final video temporarily, it's a way to reassemble projects that don't want to render in one go, or to export them to Xvid from something like Virtual Dub, which handles that particular export much better than Premiere.

[foxestacado.livejournal.com]

thank you for the suggestions. I will try exporting them to XVID next time instead, since having to deal with this nightmare scenario with Premiere. God, I can't thank you enough for the amount of help you've given me. Great tips all around. I am memorying this for the future. Thank you so much [worships]

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

Heh, I haven't done anything that helpful, just pointing towards a few things. Which other people were happy to do for me when I started out with these programs. :] If you find out I was too vague about anything later, just let me know.