Export Pro CS3 v 6.0

I wonder if someone can help me. I have been an occasional user of Premiere for about 8 years for compiling animations from tif sequences from Autodesk 3dsMax, nothing too complicated just adding some transitions and titles and exporting to avi using Divx codec and never had any problems, until that is I upgraded from 6.0 to Pro CS3.
Basically I export using (as far as I can see), all the same settings and the result looks like it has been left out in the rain! The following are links showing a print screen from the avi and an original frame from the sequence to show how it should look:
http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv296/Keith_068/PrintScreen.png
http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv296/Keith_068/OriginalFrame.png
I have tried with Cinepak Codec by Radius, have tried with Adobe Media Encoder exporting to flv format but the result is the same. I have re-installed 6.0 and exported a sample sequence from the same project without a problem.
I am using Windows XP on a quite a high spec PC, have tried exporting just a few seconds of it so it's not a lack of system resources (presumably). The frame size is 768x480 exporting at 30fps. I've done a lot of work on the current project in CS3 and a last resort would be to have to re-do it again in 6.0, so I'm really hoping someone can help me.
Thanks,
Keith.

Hello Ruud,
Thanks for responding.
Yes I know Cinepak is not the best, I tried it one time before and wasn't as good as Divx, but still much better than this.
In the past I successfully encoded 1024x576 at 30 fps and bit rate of 1500 kbps, and I have tried in the current example to turn it up to the max. 4000 kbps but no difference. As well as confirming it works OK with Premiere 6.0 I've also tried exporting the basic sequence of frames with a feature called RAM Player within 3ds Max and it's perfect at 1500 kbps as well. (Both with Divx)
Basically we have a customer who we installed equipment for at various locations in their building and we've created a virtual reality walk though showing where everything is and they want to have it showing in a constant loop on a screen in their reception area, so it doesn't have to be an ultra small file size, it's not going on the web or anything.
Video editing is not my background so I know I must be doing something wrong, but I can't imagine what.

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Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:33:04 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using Premiere Pro CS3 When exporting as flash file poor picture quality
Computer playback generally prefers square pixels. Make sure to set your output resolution to 1920 x 1080 using a Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) of 1.0 or Square.
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- Note: Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 3.2.0 does not support IMX editing or XDCAM HD50 editing at this time. Export to XDCAM is also not possible.
- Adobe Premiere Pro now has presets for HDV 24p. Note: Adobe Premiere Pro does NOT support print to tape in 24p mode.
- Improved handling of MPEG streams (e.g.: HDV video), along with error detection. MPEG stream errors can occur during recording due to tape dropouts, record start/stop glitches, timecode breaks, etc. Bad frames caused by these MPEG stream errors are identified during import/indexing or playback. These frames will play back as full red frames to alert the user that there is a problem in the encoded video at that location. Adobe Premiere Pro will also log error messages to the Events panel, indicating where the error(s) were encountered in the stream. Users can open the Events panel, determine the location of the MPEG stream error, navigate to that location in the clip and take corrective action, such as trimming out the video glitch or covering up the red frames with duplicated good frames copied from before or after the glitch. Note: MPEG files will need to be re-indexed to take advantage of the improvements in Adobe
Premiere Pro CS3 3.2.0. For more information, please see Working with MPEG Files.
Notable fixes:
- Titles/Footage no longer show up as offline when reloading saved projects.
- Rendered preview files no longer missing when reloading saved projects.
- Certain filters and/or transitions are now applied correctly when reloading saved projects, until the timeline is forcibly refreshed.
- When exporting via the Adobe Media Encoder, there is no longer a long delay before the progress dialog shows and rendering resums (Mac OS 10.5.x only).
- 24p HDV clips shot on a Canon XH A1 no longer come in incorrectly as 30 fps clips.
- Creating an offline clip in the project window then attempting to link it to media on disk no longer results in the application crashing.
- QT PAL movies rendered out of Adobe After Effects® software are no longer incorrectly identified as requiring rendering in a Adobe Premiere Pro PAL project.
- DV Clips of certain specific durations are no longer incorrectly identified on the timeline as requiring rendering.
- For P2 DVCPro clips, the right-most pixel column no longer contains video garbage.
- Fixed a memory fragmentation problem that would occur with projects with many custom bin columns.
- Fixed a bug where exporting to a QuickTime movie (with QT 7.4) would crash the application.
- Selecting "display only exact name matches" when relinking clip no longer crashes on Leopard.
- Fixed an issue where 30p and 30f HDV clips would incorrectly be identified as requiring rendering in a 29.97 progressive project.

Harm,
I don't use HDV, so I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but in the top post, there is mention of having to re-index the MPEG files "to take advantage of the improvements in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 3.2.0." While it seems this should be an automatic process, maybe wiping out the previously-created index files (I seem to remember them being in the Media Cache folder when importing MPG files from DVD rips and such) would let the project open. Or, maybe the old trick of importing an existing project into a new one? Just a couple thoughts...
To the other poster: surely, I don't jest. At least, not when it comes to anything in the video production industry and my operation in it. Long ago, I gave up expecting perfection from any particular piece of hardware or software, and just focused on being creative. That's why I got into this. I refuse to let any piece of equipment dictate what I can or can't do--I just find another way around. Funny how we managed to make it as a species and a civilization as long as we have, and now that computers are here to make our lives easier (*snort*), we're quick to raise our ire about everything that's wrong with them. That's why I will always marvel at things built long ago prior to the advent of all the technology we take for granted today.
Anyway, we're all entitled to our opinions, and I've taken this thread completely off-topic. My apologies, so...

Premiere Pro CS3 for Mac timeline encoder application options

What options (Procoder-like) do I have for Mac Premiere Pro CS3 timeline encoding? Appreciate any application suggestions.

I understand that you get more options on the Win Platform. If your
looking for a specific option that you intend to use alot, then you will
certainly want to factor that in when you make your OS choice.
But just having lots of options in itself is not, in itself, a good
reason to base your choice on. The Mac platforms tend to be more
quicktime based, but your encoding options are varied allowing you to
create delivery formats for a range of end users, from tiny Ipod size
video to lossless formats that most any other platform will handle with
no difficulty. Of course you have the standard DVD export routines, and
you also have flash video export routines.
For import concerns, I have found a program called Visual Hub to be
quite useful in conversions. I've found it to be able to quickly convert
most everything I throw it at, specifically those xvid and divx file
that tend to be problematic for NLE's on both platforms.

Export Pro CS3 v 6.0

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