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Old November 14th, 2004, 11:54 PM   #1276
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fwiw, i don't think that you will gain anything by capturing footage with quicktime instead of premiere.
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Old November 15th, 2004, 07:44 AM   #1277
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Mpeg-2 editing in premiere pro

Hello everyone,

I have the following problem: on a documentary I edited a while ago I made a final export to mpeg-2 for dvd. Now after the job was delivered and concluded, due to a hard-drive crash I lost all my orignal captured .avi files. That was very nasty, although not a disaster because the job was already concluded and I also still had my source files on the dv-tapes. Now my client would like a shorter version of the documentary. It only involves a few very basic steps; cutting out some parts. So I tried to re-edit my mpeg-file (I know, that's not going to do the quality any good, but this client isn't that picky on that for this low-budget project) but couldn't get any results as premiere screws up the timeline; the audio isn't sync anymore, there are skips and freezes, etc.
Now I'm sure this is because of the intra-frame compressing of mpeg (and the GOP and I-frames, etc.).
My question is if there's any way to do this edit in premiere with a plug-in or mod, or to do it in another program. The only other option I have is to go back to the source dv-tapes but that would take me a week to edit, whereas some cuts in the mpeg-file would take me 5 minutes (on a working program, that is!). I even tried those freeware videosplitting apps who claim to do mpeg but they screwed it up as well. Ideas, anyone?

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Old November 15th, 2004, 08:10 AM   #1278
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Where are you located in Holland? You might try loading the
MPEG2 in www.virtualdub.org and have it export it as
an uncompressed AVI file. If that works you'll be set. If not you
will probably need another edit program (I have Vegas here and
it should be able to do this).
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Old November 15th, 2004, 10:36 AM   #1279
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With digital format you can only capture in DV, although QuickTime
supports DV I don't think you can capture to it (it looks like it
switched to analog capturing which it can't find). If you need a
QuickTime DV avi file on the PC just capture it in AVI, drag it to the
timeline and export as QuickTime DV.
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Old November 15th, 2004, 06:30 PM   #1280
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Hi Rob, I'm from Delft.

I tried virtualdub, but all it says is: "no video frames found in mpeg-file" It says that on multiple mpeg files, also video from another sources (ripped from dvd). Could this be a codec problem? They play normally in media player or other players, just when I try to re-edit them (in premiere) they screw up. Any thoughts?

Steven

PS I don't have Vegas so can't check if that works
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Old November 15th, 2004, 09:25 PM   #1281
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you do not want to re-encode the mpeg2 file at all... that means you'll need a real mpeg2 editor.

womble is what i use, you can download the free trial and see how it works for yourself... it has a window that tells you what is being re-encoded and what isn't, you should be able to get away with simple cuts-only editing with no re-encoding at all.

of course, that assumes that you have already pulled the mpeg2 files out of your dvd.

canopus also has an mpeg editor that should not do any re-encoding for simple edits.
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Old November 15th, 2004, 09:28 PM   #1282
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Premiere freezes when camera connected

I really really need some help on this one. I have my camera connected to my computer through a firewire and I am going out from the camera to a tv. In theory this should work, but instead anytime the computer is connected to the firewire it freezes premiere so it doesn't play anything nothing is being outputted or shown at all. As soon as I disconnected the firewire or turn the camera off Premiere goes back to normal.

Do any of you know how to fix this? Please help! Thank you


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Old November 16th, 2004, 02:41 AM   #1283
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Hi,

I had that problem with Premiere 6 / 6.5 ... never did fix it for good - a temporary fix that worked for some time was to delelete the firewire driver from "device manager" and let Windows rediscover it. Never had this problem with Premiere Pro


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Old November 16th, 2004, 05:12 AM   #1284
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That's an excellent idea indeed Dan. There is also a program
somewhere called M2Edit I believe. How large is the file?
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Old November 16th, 2004, 05:48 AM   #1285
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http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/stable/

try this one of have a look for the MainConcept mpg2-support for premiere, its working quite nice, u can import every mpg2 file and edit easily

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always keep in mind, google is ur best friend :)
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Old November 16th, 2004, 07:04 AM   #1286
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mission accomplished

Thanks Rob, Dan and Mirko!

I managed to get it done with the womble-thing! That saved me a week's work!

Many thanks again!

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Old November 16th, 2004, 07:09 AM   #1287
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ur welcome... i hope u can be succesfull, and it useful in ur case
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Old November 16th, 2004, 09:33 AM   #1288
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I always plug in and power up the camera before starting Premiere and never had any problems. Are you starting Premiere before turning on the camera?
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Old November 16th, 2004, 10:26 AM   #1289
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Usually I'll wait until Premiere is loaded and then plug it in but I've tried it both ways. I'll try what you suggested Lars and see if that helps, thanks.
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Old November 16th, 2004, 11:30 AM   #1290
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just for drill, make sure you don't have anything else connected to the firewire bus the camera is on... perhaps there is a hardware conflict.
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