Why Does Premiere Elements Hate .WMV

[philly69]

I know I asked a question about rendering in .wmv and I solved that I just export a movie and pull it into WMM, but elements seems to not even like working with .wmv's esspecially large ones for editting etc, unless i render the whole thing first it is real hard to work with real jerky and sound lags, makes for a hard editing session.

Any tricks other than to render the imported file first, some are 400-500mb this could take awhile.

[ATR]

Philly69

Classically, you will see that Rendering keys are the length of movie and speed of your computer.

So first, is your computer "up to speed" and optimized? Maybe more details on that?

Next, are you dealing with .wmv and/or .wmvHD?

What do you want to do with the original .wmv....bring it into Premiere Elements, edit, and then what?

When you are referring to "Render", do you mean Render by pressing ENTER in the Edit Mode before moving on to a type of Export or do you mean Render = going to Export Mode, selecting a .wmv export, and the "render" that occurs in the export of the edited video to the .wmv format?

Could you explain what you are doing with Windows Movie Maker? Are you converting a wmv to avi there or something else? Are you using Windows XP or Vista?

That is just a few thoughts for now.

My thoughts are to get a better handle on what you are doing and how we can workaround the issue if possible.

ATR

[ATR]

Sorry....I forgot about your previous Thread which fills in a lot of the background

http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28808

So, maybe answer by filling in any gaps, but focus in on computer status and the video source.

ATR

[philly69]

Hi, when i say render i am refering to hitting enter, not exporting, just rendering to tighten up the file. And I am working with .wmv's not HD ones, I haven't even attempted that yet with all the problems of just using wmv.

I have a 256mb video card and 1gig of ram and got an external drive with 500gb for projects.

I am not sure if I need more memory, 2 or 4 gigs would probably be better, but I only have this problem with .wmv's even raw .avi's that are 1563kbps from my DVcam are fine and I don't even have to render first just import and let it conform and everything runs smooth, so I don't think it's HD or memory??

[Barb O]

philly69

Some people find that it is more effective to take long wmv's (or any wmv's) in to Windows Movie Maker and from there save them as a DV AVI, which is then the input to Premiere Elements.

This is one example of where I personally take the pragmatic approach of finding a workflow that is effective, even if theoretically some other workflow (like doing everything in Premiere Elements) should work.

Premiere Elements needs to convert to DV AVI internally anyway. WMV is a Microsoft construct and its Movie Maker just seems to do a better job of processing it at times. So it is not surprising if converting from wmv to dv avi in Movie Maker is an effective workflow.

[philly69]

Thanx, I will do this, WMM does seem to render and work with wmv's a lot better, when I render a premire avi I put it into wmm to make the wmv so i will do the same now in reverse :)

philly69

Some people find that it is more effective to take long wmv's (or any wmv's) in to Windows Movie Maker and from there save them as a DV AVI, which is then the input to Premiere Elements.

This is one example of where I personally take the pragmatic approach of finding a workflow that is effective, even if theoretically some other workflow (like doing everything in Premiere Elements) should work.

Premiere Elements needs to convert to DV AVI internally anyway. WMV is a Microsoft construct and its Movie Maker just seems to do a better job of processing it at times. So it is not surprising if converting from wmv to dv avi in Movie Maker is an effective workflow.

[ATR]

philly69

The .wmv has its pros and cons. Apparently editing it and rendering it can fall (and often do fall) under the cons category.

If I read you right, you have already gone the route wmv to avi (Windows Movie Maker) and avi back to wmv (Premiere Elements) and have gotten good results using a computer that is optimized. You have optimized your computer

if Windows XP
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=333161&sliceId=2

if Vista
http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3bc448a7

Please let us know the outcome.

ATR