Reading Pinnacle AVI's with Ulead Sudio 8

[Al 1234]

A recent attempt to put our analog home videos onto DVD with a Pinnacle DC10 capture card and Studio 8 had mixed results. The capture process went relatively smoothly, the editing was a bit troublesome with frequent shutdowns, and the rendering impossible with the system inevitably hanging sometime during the process.

Never managing yet to produce a DVD, I thought I would try Ulead videostudio 8 which seemed to be written up in reviews as a much more stable product. But Ulead will not read the AVI's captured with the Pinnacle card.

A bit of research in your forums( If I understand what I am reading!), suggests the files written by the DC10 card are in a proprietary MJPEG format, and GSpot confirms that it could only do a partial render as some of the streams in the movie were in an unsupported format.

I have tried installing a trial MJPEGcodec from Morgan Multimedia, but it makes no difference.

So now I fully understand that capturing analog video is a process very similar to walking blindfolded through a minefield, can anybody tell me if there is any way of getting Ulead to recognize the Pinnacle format, or of converting the files to a readable codec.

If not, and I have to start again with a new capture device, any suggestions on something that will capture in a widely accepted and non proprietary codec?

My system by the way is an Athlon 2600 running Windows XP. Many thanks!

[thecoalman]

The Ulead site says the DC10 plus is compatible with VS8. You can reacapture the video with it. Probably your best bet since you can't import the pinnacle mpg into VS8. If you do convert it will have to be rencoded resulting in a loss in quality.

Might be a workaround but I don't know and couldn't find any. Perhaps someone else knows.