Large AVI captured from DV and into TMpeg

[Jason A]

I just captured a large 8 minute movie inside Premiere from my DV camcorder.

now..I want to MPEG it using TMPEG but it comes up with a weird error..

Anybody else here have done this before??

Thanks,
Jason

[teamhawaii]

lemme guess, something to the tune of..

"Error occurred at address 0CA18282 blah blah..."

or Read Error occurred at blah blah.."

[zeppage2]

Look here:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@25.pHtmaSoChVM^0@.ee732d1

[Jason A]

No zeppage2...this is not a Premiere error.......

This is a TMpeg error.....

Yes..TeamHawaii..that is the error.

For 1..you can't even export from Premiere into Tmpeg so I don't know why you thought it was a Adobe error.

Problem is...If I want to use TMPEG...i can pretty much forget it if using adobe..

I mean...a 10 minute movie is not going to go uncompressed and then work.

Anywhoo...

I want to be able to do 2-pass encoding...ligos 3.5 is ok..nothing great but it works.

Jason

[teamhawaii]

Actually you cant use TMPGEnc if you are using the AVI file that you capped off your Pinnacle card. It's weird.. for me it works like 40% of the tiems I try it.. but seems like it never works straight with TMPGEnc..

From what I hear it's something to do with the Pinnacle DV codec or drivers.

However, all is not lost.. I use Premiere -> Avisynth -> TMPGEnc.. this combo works like a charm... Premiere handles my timeline, Avisynth frameserves it to TMPGEnc, and voila.. excellent encoding. I only wish TMPGEnc was faster.

[Vejita-sama]

Well, if you've for the money CCE or Ulead is faster

[teamhawaii]

true.. but i haven't had much luck with CCE.. the quality pales in comparison to TMPGEnc..

for some reason, encodes in TMPGEnc come out waay better then those in CCE even though I try using the same settings or close to, for CCE...

[Jason A]

what is AVISYNTH???

Where can I snag it from.....Since I just capture from inside Premiere...

I just make up my timeline....then export timeline into Ligos.

Problem is...cleaner 5 SUCKS and I love Tmpeg...Speed is not too bad on a 1.5 AMD but still...

I have having Ligos as my only mpeg option.

Thanks,
Jason

[Jason A]

Ok..stupid question...I got the AVIsynth...got it working with Premiere as a plug-in..now...

I'm running Tmpeg2.0....I've read his comments..

Downloaded the AVS or whatever crap into my Tmpeg directory...

did the registry file thingy...then...

Have my 40 minute Premiere file..

Export timeline..

pick the Avisynth...save as test..

then copy the message into a notepad file called jasontest.avs

then go into Tmpeg...

and them what??? every time I try to open the jasontest.avs...

it just says invalid file??

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Jason

[Tommy]

Did you capture a movie, or did you just transer one from your DV camcorder via a firewire?

[Jason A]

ok guys...I fixed almost all the bugs...but

when I tell Tmpeg to load the AVS file...

I get a 300 frame mpg file that has red letters and a black background and says..

IPCSource:Wrong Server version

What am I doing wrong here??

Thanks,
Jason

[teamhawaii]

what I suggest is don't change any default names the AviSynth sets.. the only thing I change it in it's settings..

Make sure you got Random Access checked.. and you know where part0.avs is going...

load up TMPGEnc and open the part0.avs as the input file, you can then rename you mpg to what you want as the output file..

I've never had to do that notepad trick..

FYI, I use Premiere6, with the Videoserver version 0.92 and Avisynth beta 4.