Merging Video files using TmPgenc

[chewie8008]

I am trying to merge approx. 60 very short video clips using TMPGEnc and am getting errors. I have them all in mpeg1 and I go to tools and go to 'merge and cut'. I put in all the files and choose an output file and hit 'run'. It keeps giving me an error say it can't merge w/ the other files. So I go back, delete that one, and hit run again...goes to the next one, says it can't merge either. And so on and so on. I have merged like this before and had no problems. I ran an initial test merge just to make sure it would all work. Then I went through and cut the crap out of my videos that I didn't want(using TMPGEnc). Tried to merge them back together and it's giving me those errors. The only thing that I can think is causing it is because I had to brighten up 3 of the video clips(using VirtualDub), which I had to save as .avi files. But before I put them in the merger list I changed the .avi files to .mpeg1 using tmpgec. So I dunno.

Sorry I didn't get the exact error message or any more specifics. But i'm not on my computer right now and don't have access to that. Just figured i'd ask now, see if any of you know, and if not I can get the exact errors whenever I get home.

Thanks!

[ZippyP.]

If you wish to join the files then they really must be the same and not just "mpeg1". Resolution, bitrate, audio type etc. must be the same in all the clips.

I suspect your error has something to do with that.

[chewie8008]

So there is no way to merge clips w/ different brightness levels at all?

Even if I can't, I can live w/o those clips. But now I have one clip that has been done exactly like all the others. No resolution change, nothing. I took every file(all originally .mov) format and changed them to mpeg1 via TMPenc(changed all of them to 30fps because that's all TMPenc would do). Then I cut the parts out of them that I didn't want(merge & cut: tmpenc). But for some reason on this one file whenever I do the cut, when the output file comes out, it has no sound. Then when I try to merge all the clips together it says it's not compatible w/ the others. I have re-did that single file multiple times from scratch just to see if I did something wrong, and it does everytime. I even tried cutting the video at different parts to add in another varient. Still no luck. So I went back, took a different video file, re-did the whole process from scratch w/ it(exactly like I have been doing w/ the error video) and it worked flawlessly.

Can you guys think of anything that would possibly be causing this error. It's kind of a critical clip, i'd really like to have it added in.

Thanks!