A little help with this capturing scenario (a challenge?)

[redgoatee]

This is the scenario (perhaps it could go into the newbie conversion forum?):

I have an ATI AIW Rage capture card. I have the Ligos LSX 3.5 mpeg-1 and mpeg-2 encoder. I have Adobe Premier 6.0. I desire to capture from VHS and convert to mpeg-2 to put onto VCD.

The issues:

The ATI card captures the files too darn big to put an hour of show on a 80 minute CD. So I figure I will get Adobe Premier to convert the files. I realize too late that Premier is not an encoder. So I grab the LSX and see that I will finally be able to encode the the captured files to mpeg-2. But, the files that ATI captures are not AVI. The three character extension is .mp2. I don't know what that is, but it appears to be specific to ATI. The Ligos LSX will not support this .mp2 crap. Niether will Premier. So, I get this idea. I will capture through Premier, which captures the video in AVI. But, somehow, once the file gets to big, I think over 2GB, then the AVI file won't play or be supported in ANY video player or encoder. This has something to do with Premier.

So, I have these problems. Any help?

Thanks,
Allan

[Tbear]

The .mp2 is mpeg 2, just change file extention to .mpg

[Nelson37]

First - yes, mp2 is MPEG2 but ATI adds padding to the stream and many progs will not deal with it. You need to change the capture type to AVI in MMC, but you also need to be aware that unless your hard drive is NTFS partitioned, you will run into the 4-gig filesize limit (some programs impose a 2-gig AVI limit). So you need to segment the AVI, which will work for most encoders. The other thing you need to know is that if you are making VCD, you should encode to mpeg-1, not mpeg-2. And finally, while premiere is great for editing, TMPGenc or CCE is better for encoding, for mpeg-1 only some like the Panasonic encoder.

The last thing you need to know is that ALL of these questions have answers present in the forums, probably within the last 30 days. Do some more reading.