Anyone had any luck frameserving from the Premiere Pro timeline out to CCE or other encoder?

Does the 'Premiere video server plugin' from Videotools.net still work with P. Pro?

Just to clarify - I want to frameserve out to an avisynth script with smoothing filters, and then encode with CCE.

So I am already aware of the CCE and Adobe mpeg plugins that someone might be about to suggest ... but they won't let me use the avisynth filters.

You Might be Haveing Problems Because the Only versions of Premier Pro out on the Net right now are Beta Versions and I have heard that they are Quite Buggy..have you tried the New Adobe Encore DVD ??

Thanks for that - I actually havent tried Prem Pro at all yet - just pondering the pros and cons of making the switch. But I didnt see anything about PremPro on the VideoTools website, which I thought was a bit ominous...

Also havent tried Encore - is there any way to use avisynth scripts with it?

I don"t know but it might be possible to use Scripts with Encore DVD, I installed it last night but got fed up with it pretty Quick cuz it takes like a half hour just to import a Mpeg file so I don"t know if I will be useing it...There won"t be anything at Video tools.Net about Premier Pro cuz it has Just barely been released and they would have to develope a New Video server for it....Cheers

I've been using Premiere 6.5 for a bit and it uses the CCE plugin very nicely.

I'm not sure that Adobe aren't puuting the squeeze on their own software, trying to push you down the Adobe encode / Mainconcept encode route.

Within Premiere Pro there is a plugin for Surcode Dolby conversion. It only gives you 3 trial goes before you have to sign up for a further $295 to be able to use it again.

How much was Pro originally? - and then you have to fork half as much again.

I can't see any major benefit in going to Pro as it seems to suck up all my processors resources - the monitor window becomes very jerky.

Can't seem to get pro to do analogue capture. Is this intentional.

Encore, however - brilliant. Better than DVD It!, Ulead DVD Workshop and DVD Lab.

Also, strangely enough, it includes plugin for Dolby conversion. Not 5.1.

Anyway, in summary, I wouldn't bother with Pro - Stick to 6.5.

I emailed VideoTools a week ago - using the same email address that I had used when I paid for and registered their Premiere 6 plugin - and asked if they had any future plans regarding an equivalent plugin for Premiere 7.

No reply at all, which I though was a bit lame.

Thanks for your reply Charles - although the frameserver plugin isnt an encoder as such, so its not really serving the same pupose as the CCE and mainconcept plugins that you mention.

Well I have been Playing with the New Premier Pro 7 for a few days now and am Very Impressed, It is Extremely Fast compared to all other Premier Versions Pluss the Mpeg encoder is Very Fast and it Renders Projects to other Formats really fast and it does Pal/NTSC Conversions Very Fast and of exelent Quality and it is Really easy to use compared to other Premier Versions and Found it to be easy on my resources...I was able to render a 2 hour Pal AVI file to a NTSC AVI file but with a Higher Resolution in less than 2 hours and the Quality was exelent....Cheers folks

Hmmmm!

Had further play with it. I found that jerkiness may be down to some default effects that Premier throws at the video. RAM preview slows it down.

Disabled everything in effects window, and yes works pretty good.

The question is, is the Adobe Mpeg encoder as good as CCE or do we still look for a frameserver?

Mind you, could always write avi and then cce. I don't know, too many programs, too many options, infinate choices.

Well NO, The adobe encoder is Not as good as CCE but i don"t really know of any encoder as good as CCE, even my rescent experiments with ProCoder on Highest Quality didn"t Come close to CCE and on Mastering Quality I wouldn"t know as I would still be here waiting for it to finnish encodeing...But rendering as AVI would probably be the best Bet as that is what I did..I had a DivX DVD Rip of The Matrix ReLoaded but it was in Pal so I used Premier pro to Convert it to NTSC and Rendered it to AVI useing HuffyUV which took less than 2 hours and then encoded it with CCE and it turned out really good, beter than when I tried to do the Pal/NTSC conversion and Mpeg encodeing with ProCoder on Highest Quality, and it took Less than Half the Time...well good Luck....Cheers