TMPGE can not open or unsupported.

[mcmacky]

Maybe someone can help me. In the past I used to use sonic foundry video capture ,with a firewire to capture video from my sony 8mm digital camcorder and then load the avi files into TMPGE and convert to svcd or cvd.I haven,t done any in several months and went to do it today but after capturing the files I tried to load them into TMPGE and it would not accept them(can not open or unsupported)I tried renaming them to X.avi but that doesnt work either.Seems I had this problem before but can,t remember how I solved it.I also tried several versions of TMPGE,and tried changing vfapi settings in enviormental settings inTMPGE. Anybody have a sugestion?please ................Thanks.

[NiteFlame]

as far as my experiences have grown, tmpeg isn't able to open dv files. although I don't know the sf applicatin (might be vegas?), it may use the microsoft dv codec to code the video material.
there are some dv codecs available (from mainconcept, it isn't free, or from panasonic, which is free but no longer developed), which may help you. I couldn't load dv files into tmpeg after installing the mainconcept dv codec although tmpeg didn't bring the error message. but it should be possible to load them into virtual dub and frameserve to tmpeg using avisynth or something like that.

this are only some ideas I can give you. hope it helps.

regards,
NiteFlame

[geez]

I also use a firewire connection from a Sony Digital 8 camaorder. But I downloaded video into an XP machine using the standard Windows XP supplied software. This automatically created avi files. TMPGE had no problem working with those avi files. My son uses the same camera and downloads using his Windows 98 SE machine - I don't remember what software package he is using, but I do know that it also creates avi files and I am able to open those files with TMPGE. I have not renamed any other file format to avi, the files were created as avi.

[NiteFlame]

hello qeez,

i haven't tried the ms product delivered with winxp because I am working with a pinnacle dv500 which might not be supported by moviejack (i think this was the name of the application), but it is quite interesting anyway that tmpegenc reads the produced avi files because according to my information the microsoft dv codec is locked to 3rd party products.
i have reviewed a popular german magazine which dealt with this topic in a special issue and it says exactly what i wrote: you normally need an additional codec for processing dv streams.
maybe, the microsoft product stores the results in a format like mpeg-4, which is avi, too, but can be read by tmpegenc.

regards,
NiteFlame

[NiteFlame]

while searching a solution for my premiere problem, I have discovered that there is a frame server for ulead products available on http://www.videotools.net. this allows you to frameserve your projects from your ulead applications directly into tmpeg. hope this helps.

regards,
NiteFlame

[donpedro]

Try solution from this post for AVI files and TMPGEnc.

Pinnacle Studio 8 and DV home video editing

[geez]

Niteflame,

You might be right about the files being MPEG-4. However, the AVI file length for 3 minutes of tape is about 677MB! The MPEG-2 compressed version of this is coming out of TMPGEnc is about 63MB. So, I thought the AVI file represented the raw digital data.

Geez

[donpedro]

as far as my experiences have grown, tmpeg isn't able to open dv files.

It is able to do that. I did it. See my link and try it again.

[mcmacky]

Thanks to everyone that replied. thanks for your link Donpedro ,by changing the priority setting for the directshow filter in enviormental settings in tmpge I was able to load the captured avi files from sonic foundry. Before I tried that I tried capturing with my other choice (ulead movie factory) and tried to load those video files and was surprised that tmpge accepted them.These files were MS avi files so I guess that tmpge does accept MS avi files.Thanks again

[NiteFlame]

@donpedro

well, after all the trouble I had outputting my first home video to proper mpeg-2 forma, your solution might be the most comfortable, although I am always a bit scared from messing with the priority options in tmpeg .
i had a try with the video server plugin for premiere and ulead yesterday, but it cuts frames at the beginning and the end of the project (maybe this is the reason why it estimates 1 hour less than tmpeg when processing the file).
perhaps I will test the canapus and the mainconcept dv codecs to work faster or even similar, but for now, thank you for the good advice.

regards,
NiteFlame