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I have edited with Adobe Premiere 6.0 a video which is originally captured from miniDV through Firewire. In Premiere I used Export Timeline, Movie function which makes .avi file of edited video.
Then I try to make with TMPGEnc 2.5 plus a .mpg2 file from .avi for burning a PAL SVCD. After selecting a certain .avi file for input TMPGEnc gives this error message: File can not open or unsupported.
Any ideas why is it unsupported??
Original captured (unedited) .avi file is ok for TMPGEnc. Here are properties info from Premiere:
Original .avi file (ok for TMPGEnc):
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File Path: F:OHJELMATIEDOSTOTADOBEPREMIERE 6.0Levi0c.avi
File Size: 3,74GB bytes
Total Duration: 0:18:00:01
Average Data Rate: 3,55MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,067
Frame Rate: 25,00 fps
Audio: 32000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
AVI File details:
Timecode: 00:00:01:20
Reel name: '001'
User Timecode: 00:00:01:20
Reel name: '001'
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Video track 1:
Total duration is 0:18:00:01
Size is 3,61GB bytes (average frame = 145,55KB bytes)
This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES
There are 26988 keyframes.
There are 13 empty frames.
Frame rate is 25,00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor: 'dvsd'
Audio track 1:
Size is 131,84MB bytes
Rate is 32000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bits
Edited file (unsupported by TMPGEnc):
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File Path: F:OhjelmatiedostotAdobePremiere 6.0Levi2.avi
File Size: 3,36GB bytes
Total Duration: 0:16:10:08
Average Data Rate: 3,55MB per second
Image Size: 720 x 576
Pixel Depth: 24 bits
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1,067
Frame Rate: 25,00 fps
Audio: 32000 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
AVI File details:
Contains 1 video track(s) and 1 audio track(s).
Video track 1:
Total duration is 0:16:10:08
Size is 3,25GB bytes (average frame = 145,61KB bytes)
This movie appears to have DROPPED FRAMES
There are 24257 keyframes.
There are 1 empty frames.
Frame rate is 25,00 fps
Frame size is 720 x 576
Depth is 24 bits.
Compressor: 'dvsd'
Audio track 1:
Size is 118,44MB bytes
Rate is 32000 samples/sec, stereo
Sample size is 16 bits
This second file doesn't have time code. Is that the reason??
If anybody knows the answer please send it also by email to
Juhani.Hartikainen@kolumbus.fi
You probably just need to raise the "direct show File Reader" ..You do this by going to "options" to "enviromental Settings" to "vfapi Plugins" and raise the direct Show" to "2"...There are Much better ways to encode to mpeg 2 if your files are in Premier that haveing to re-render the file to AVI, you can frame serve it or use one of the many Mpeg plugins..The new Premier 6.5 has it"s own Mpeg encoder...
And thank you! It helped. I'm just a beginner with these DV-video-PC things so I'm curious about what I did. Why I had to give higher priority to DirectShow Multimedia File Reader? Originally it had -1.
And what is the difference between captured .avi file and rendered .avi file (not supported by TMPGenc before this priority change)?
You wrote: There are Much better ways to encode to mpeg 2 if your files are in Premier that haveing to re-render the file to AVI, you can frame serve it or use one of the many Mpeg plugins..
What is frame serveing? How do I do it with Premiere?
Is it possible to encode directly from timeline of Premiere with some plugin?
Where do I find them? Is it possible to use TMPGenc as plugin?
Lots of questions because this beginner wants learn these things.
I want to use TMPGEnc's compressor in Adobe Premiere because my avi's created by my digital camera are limited to 2.4 GB which is only about 20 minutes of video. So i want to be able to create my video cds using TMPGEnc's compressor in Premiere. Can anyone tell me the name of the compressor so i can choose it from the list. It doesn't have a general name like TMPGEnc, or MPG etc etc.
It won"t be in the List..Unless you have somehow installed it as a Plugin..But you can use the "Premier Video server" to frame serve to Tmpgenc..you can get it at : http://www.videotools.net/
I am trying to convert an MPEG2 file to AVI DV Type 1 format.
I have figured out how to output AVI from TMPGEnc, but there isn't an option for DV Type 1 in the AVI compression tab. There is a Microsoft Type 1, but that is an older non-DV codec.
I have Media Studio Pro installed on my system, so I know that there is a DV codec on my machine. Does anyone know how to get TMPGEnc to see it and use it?
That is not a very relyable way to believe you have a DV Codec, it could be useing the compression from your DV Device..Check your Codec list..In XP you go to "Controll panell" to "Sounds and audio devices" to "Hardware" to "Video codecs" and highlight it then click "properties" then see it you have a DV Codec that compresses to DV...If not try going to the "Canopus" web site and download a Freeware one ...
Why not just use Media Studio if it has the codec you want.
Make sure you have the latest update patch that installs their new Mpeg.Now codec. Load mpeg to the timeline and set the DV compression codec at project settings or when saving the movie.
Or, if Virtualdub sees the codec, use DVD2AVI/VFAPIConv/Virtualdub. This method is not as bad as it sounds and gives the most flexibility in how the AVI will be saved (old formats, segmented, etc.). TMPGEnc can be used to decode the audio for Virtualdub.
Remember, mpeg is 4:2:0 and DV is 4:1:1 (color sampling). You can't go mpeg->DV->mpeg without degradation. If you are archiving, try to stay in the same format.
I have finally gotten some good avi's converted from my real media files, but everyone that I try to encode w/ the tmpgenc has great audio, but no video. There is only a black box where the video usually plays as it's being done. Also, I have stopped the encoding to see what the finished mpeg would be like and it's the same thing, great sound no picture! What could be the problem? I must also mention that I have done files that I myself did not convert, but simply downloaded somewhere and they work just fine. But all the files I have created do this and a few that I have downloaded do this. Has anyone else had this problem? What can I do to fix it?
I setup a batch file and it works fine. I call it from the command line using the /batch option. Is there a way to have tmpgenc exit after the batch is complete? Also the .tbe file that is created seems to be in japanese unicode characters. Is there a setting to change that to english?
When I get to the final step (or at least I think its the final step b4 burning)I click on burn and it tells me "File "the movie" does not exist, Do you wish to create? Yes or No so I click on yes and another page pops up and this is what it tells me when I click on start "Can't Load P3Package.dll" what am I doing wrong I tried to go by the steps in the VCDHelp section??????? btw I have to use TMPGEnc cuz when I used Nero it made my files play upside down on my DVD player.
Well you should only get this error if all the Files that came with Tmpgenc are not in the same folder, you cant just have all the files sitting on your desktop...And if all the files are in the same folder then look in that folder and look for a File called "P3P Package.DLL" if it isn"t there then that is what your problem is, but if it is there you can try to Copy & Paste the file into the "System" directory and if that don"t work then download Tmpgenc again and if that don"t work you are SOL....
Well, I uninstalled TMPG and reinstalled it, and it finally worked and to top that off after I burned my mpeg file to a vcd it finally played rightside up(that was my problem all along, first vcd played upside down). Thanks for the info.
I wan't to convert an AVI (Xvid) which has 5 audio channels Dolby
Surround to SVCD. I seems impossible to rip of a two channel WAV
file to be the input file in TMPGenc. It would be nice if you can
encode the Dolby surround channels but stereo will do. Please help.
You need an Ac3 decoder such as AVImux which can decode the audio to another format such as a wav or Ac3dec which handles Ac3 and Vob files and encodes to wav.
I USED TMPG TO SPLIT A MPG FILE THE FIRST PART CAME OUT AS A MASTER SPLITTER FILE WHICH I CONVERTED BACK TO MPEG AND IT WORKED BUT THE SECOND PART CAME OUT AS A MPG.002 FILE AND I CANT DO ANYTHING WITH IT ANY SUGGESTIONS?
I think it's the first part of a set of split volumes which you need to join the volumes back together as one file. Such as like the split files Winrar creates.
After a good time of verry good running tmpgenc is not working anny more by various file's (mpeg) I want to looad. Also an other program (vcdeasy) does't work annymore. PLEASE HELP
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Your program should provide the option to adapt its Interface to the native language of the user. You can use language files to change the language. You can ask the internet community to translate the program to their native language, they would simply take the English Language file (a simple text file), open it and translate every string in this file.
You just need to make the program use a separate (or not separated) text file to get all the text strings of the interface of the program, and then let the user choose the language in an option menu, or even better detect the language
settings of the computer automatically.
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