TMPGenc unable to process my Premier files

[larry__ellison]

I recently purchased a Canon ZR40 DV camcorder. I desparately want to edit the DV video files in Premiere and convert them to SVCD or DVD.

Here's the problem - TMPG will encode the DV - AVI's just fine. In other words, the DV files that I've "saved" from the camcorder to my hard drive will work fine. However, once I put those same files into Premiere, do some editing, and save the movie back to my hard drive, TMPG doesn't like my file. TMPG loads/finds the audio portion of the DV AVI just fine but acts like there's no video in the file.

I swear - I have all the project settings identical in Premiere - everything is DV audio, DV video, same frame rates, etc. the whole way through (input, output and everything in between). I can't figure out what the hell the difference is between the "pure" files captured directly via FireWire from the camera and the AVI's saved from Premiere.

By the way - I've downloaded/tried the demo version of at least one other MPEG2 encoding tool (I think it was Ulead's DVD authoring tool) with those same Premiere-exported files and it worked like a champ - it had no problem finding the video. The problem is that it was INCREDIBLY slow and the quality was abysmal compared to TMPG.

[Letus]

Try to download the file below, hope it helps.
http://www.mainconcept.com/archive/mcdv204.exe

[simbox]

Hi,

I know what the problem is. There is a bug in Adobe Premiere.

You must search the freeware program AVIC.exe.

You load your saved file into Avic and Avic will check your file.
In the first line you must change the two middel letters.

So you must change the "S" and the 'V". Now the first line matches the second line. You push Apply and now TMPGenc will recognise your file.

It's very easy!!

Greeting from a little place calles Belgium!

[nailbmb]

What version of Premier and TMPG are you using? I do this same thing with Premire 5.5 and TMPG ?.? with no probs. But i do have the mainconcept codec installed, that may have something to do with it, dunno.