MPG to FLV

[M Bruner]

Dear Gurus:
I just finished a time sensitive project that had me complexed up until a few hours ago and I was wondering how you would have handled it. My client wanted a MPEG video with only a few scenes saved from it, but all the saved scenes on one FLV file. I have VDub, Premier Pro CS4, Sorenson Squeeze, and AVISynth.

Now the issue. I wanted the project completed with as few encodings as possiible. I tried to load the MPEG file into Premier Pro, but received an error message the file was probably damaged, so editing it and encoding it in Premier wasn't going to work.

The MPEG would load into VDub, but as we all know, won't encode into FLV.

Sorenson Squeeze would encode it into FLV, but I didn't know how to edit a file in Squeeze so the file would use only one job to encode all my scenes into one FLV file.

Any insights?

Oh, my final solution was to download AVIDemux, encode all my scenes with Sorenson Squeeze and Append them all with AviDemuxn into the FLV file.

[yoda313]

You can frameserve with virtualdub. There are instructions on how to do that. You can end up with an avi file that can be opened by an editor that can recognize avi files. there are lots of guides on frameserving here that you can look for. That way you can make your changes in virtualdub but do the actual encoding with another program.

[M Bruner]

Thanks Yoda, I appreciate the quick response, but my client specifically requested the final file to be an FLV:
"My client wanted a MPEG video with only a few scenes saved from it, but all the saved scenes on one FLV file."(ibid.)