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In preparation for the release of Episode 3, I'm going to have the traditional "watch everything Star Wars" prior to May 19th.

That said, I'm trying to turn my clone wars episodes (which I acquired quite legally, I promise, as a Hyperspace member) into one single 60-minute film. No more little "Chapter 1" and "Chapter 2" in between each of them. I'm trying to get rid of that. And I can edit it out in Adobe Premiere. However, when I go to export the timeline into a movie, the final file always "flickers" and has little square box's around bits and pieces of the video.

Anyone a Premiere guru, or know why this might be and how I could get rid of it?

Thanks, in advance.

Does the macroblocking (which I assume it is in this case) appear when you play the video in Quicktime or any other program?

Nope. I can watch it just fine with any player, and it has no blocks in the "preview" window while editing (although it did before I changed the settings from DV to Quicktime) -- the blocks and flickering don't show up until the movie is exported.

Try decompressing the last clip to uncompressed AVI. Either in it's own separate timeline in Premiere, or with Quicktime Pro. I'm still not exactly sure what the problem could be.

Why not just wait a couple of weeks and buy the DVD for 15 bucks?

I´m sorry, Sir, logic is dangerous voodoo magic.

if you're on a mac you can drag and drop all the individual QT mov.s into iMovie, edit them, export them to iDVD, and burn them there.

I did that about 4 or 5 months ago, and it worked great.

Even edited out the double "I AM Sith" shit by that Kamino-chick.

Of course, as luck would have it, it won't play burned multimedia DVDs on my DVD player, so I haven't been able to watch it on my own tv yet. Seen it at a friend's house though, worked pretty well.

As to where I got mine, they were all digitized QT mov files someone on some forum had burned off the tv. They had the little Cartoon Network logo on the lower right corner, instead of the Hyperspace one. Bigger screen size, but worse resolution than the hyperspace ones too.

The file size on my final QT mov creation was a whopping 334.7 MB though. It probably took about 8 hours to make too, since iMovie imports super slowly and iDVD burns slow too. It was a whole days project.

If you were a diehard fan you could always burn the special feature footage too, and make a fan-knockoff replica of the official DVD. Just don't go around selling that shit and the FBI won't slap you with that fine.

Anyway, I didn't sell any copies or distribute them, so don't piss your shorts on my account. I also plan on buying the new seasons 1 and 2 DVD, despite the fact I've already seen all the bonus features and epiii footage on the internet anyway.

-ben

I did this right after the 20th episode came out. I've used Adobe Premiere, too, and a few misc utils. Some features:

- traditional Star Wars opening (the 20th Fox logo replaced by the Cartoon Network logo, other than that it's the same, of course the opening crawl's text is custom :))
- traditional Star Wars transitions between scenes
- the closing credits' color is traditional Star Wars blue
- George Lucas is included in the credit list :)))

What I did was edit all the chapters together with Quicktime, then coverted it to avi, then burned a VCD with Nero. I did Chapter 1-10 separate from 11-20, since we received them at different times anyway. Chapter 1-10 worked great, but 11-20 didn't work well at all.

I just recently learned that Showbiz can make mpg files. So I converted either the mov or the avi to mpg, I think I used the mov. It worked great and I burned a DVD, but during Chapter 20 it just froze during the Grievous fight. Something must of messed up during the encoding process because the file froze on my computer where it did on the DVD.

So this was a few weeks ago and I said fuck it since Volume 1 was going to be out soon, and what do you know, it comes out tomorrow. God, the time is really flying by. It never used to, but now that college is over and done with I don't know where the time is going. I digress.

I just made my VCD today. It came out ok, but it does get pixely at some parts, not everything, but at times random pixels seems to linger on screen as if they haven't "caught up" with the changing scene.

All I did was edit the movs together and exported it to an avi, then burned the avi to VCD via Nero.

Currently, I am using Showbiz to convert the mov to mpg, and see how that looks on a VCD. If that comes out well, then I'll see if I can make a DVD of 1-25.