TMPGEnc. is pissing me off

[Darakis]

I have Premiere 6.0 and have been creating animations, adding wav. audio files to it and then exporting as DVavi files. I also have the newest version of TMPGEnc. and It used to open up these DVavi files just fine and now it doesn't. I've messed around with the VFAPI plugins and of course that don't work either. I just can't understand why it won't work anymore. I'm sure there's a simple solution to it but it pisses me off that I worked so hard on these animated segments only to not be able to open them anymore. Any solutions would be nice.

[Betamax]

Hi,

I've got Premiere and I only use TMPGenc to encode all my DV-movies to mpg.
My DV routines works possible because I've got a capture card with build-in DV; If you don't then you must be sure there is a DV-codec installed at your system so TMPGenc know how to deal with your movies.
BTW, you must be sure you use one of the latest versions of TMPGenc (like 2.57).

[Darakis]

Thanks Betamax but I do have the newest version of TMPGEnc. and it doesn't work. I'm starting to think it's an audio problem because when I load a DV file without audio it works. I still can't understand for the life of me why it accepted DV files with video and audio together before but now I must load them seperately. As for premiere, what I'm talking about as far as animation goes is that I draw all of the cells in adobe photoshop and then I import these files into premiere. Then, I put them on the timeline with audio and export as Microsoft DVavi file. When this file is done I open it up with Windows Media Player and it works fine. So, I try to open it up in TMPGEnc. to encode to Mpeg 2 and it doesn't accept it now. I did change the VFAPI plugins and it didn't work either. So, I have to brouse for the video file and then brouse for the audio and encode that way. any other feed back on the problem I'm having would be great.

[Betamax]

any other feed back on the problem I'm having would be great.

I don't know if it's with you too, but Premiere only saves my DV's to seperated files (1 avi for the movie, 1 wav for the audio).

With previous releases of TMPGenc, I always has trouble to encode large clips (> 20minutes) with the audio at the same time (the audio gets muted after 20minutes). I solved that by pre-encoding the wav to mp2 and then when I loaded the avi in TMPGenc, I loaded the mp2 for the audio (instead the wav). This works great.

With current version of TMPGenc, I also can just load the wav in the audio-field in TMPGenc. Then TMPGenc encodes the audio seperately and muxes it to the movie while the movie is encoded. Works great too.

If it's your problem why the audio-field is empty when you load your DV-avi, it's properly there isn't a PCM-WAVe type audio available in the avi (or no sound at all).
I use VirtualDub if i want to have a WAV-file from the avi.
You could try that for yourself too. It ensures that you have a suiteble wav-file for TMPGenc - you must load it 'manually' in the audio-field after you've loaded the avi-file.
Then hit 'Start' to encode - that should be the thrick.

Only be sure the WAV is 44.1 khz. As you properly know, DV's audio by default is 48khz. TMPGenc will auto-resample if required, but then your audio is of less quality...

[kingoflubrication]

maybe before when tmpenc worked for you you were exporting the dv avi as type-2, and now somehow the settings were changed and you are exporting as type-1 dv. this is just a thought. i am not sure if tmpenc will or will not accept type-1 dv. i know that it will accept type-2. type-2 dv seperates the audio and video streams (something like that).

[Darakis]

Thanks again for the advice. sorry I couldn't respond sooner. I was away on vacation for a week but I'll try working with it and let you know if I get it to work the way it used to.

[Digital-Overload]

Premiere 6.5 Here With Tsunami Plus 2.57

No Problems.

Make Sure you have the Codecs Installed Right.

[georg]

If I remember right I needed to install the Mainconcept DV codec to get TMPGEnc to read my Premiere DV files.

There is a demo at http://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml that does the job. It adds a watermark when encoding but works just normal when reading files.

[Darakis]

Thanks for the input. I did install a DV codec and now everything seems to work fine again. I don't know, maybe I deleted one by accident when I got rid of something else. Any way, all is well

[ropdoh]

Why don't you guys frameserve from Premiere to TMPGEnc using Avisynth. Its really easy to use. Then you don't have any issues with the various DV Avi file types.

You also get (a really minute) improvement in the output quality as you are only compressing once (to MPEG), not twice (to DV AVI, and then to MPEG)