AVI (from premiere) to DVD

[sbCerebus]

I'm trying to encode some home movie AVI files, produced in adobe premiere to mpeg2 (i believe) so that i can burn some dvds when i take my hard-drive over to a friends who has a dvd writer.

I tried using TMPENG, but get the error message 'can not open, or unsupported.'

Am i missing a codec?

I can play the file using premiere's viewer as well as windows media player.

Can I use a different encoder? do i need a different codec?

Cheers guys.

[DJRumpy]

Just being able to play a file isn't an indicator that you have all of the necessary codecs installed. Try GSpot in the TOOLS section. It will tell you what codec was used, and if you have the ncessary codec installed on the target machine.

[bugster]

If you are exporting from Premier as mpeg-2, you should be able to set up the mpeg-2 encoder in such a way so that these files are already DVD complaint. However, you may get better results exporting as DV AVI and then encoding to mpeg-2 with TmpGenc, requires more time and lots of disk space though.

[sbCerebus]

Cheers guys.

I exported as dv avi (17.2Gb) and now want to encode it.

DJRumpy, I installed Gspot, and itsays that the codec is not detected. It says that the name of the codec is 'DVC/DV Video' and that the 4CC is 'dsvd/dsvd'. I have absolutely no idea what 4CC is/means.

I guess i need to download the codec then.

I'll try googling for it, but if anyone knows where/how i might find it. Feel free to chip in. It would be much appreciated.

[DJRumpy]

Check the TOOLS section. There are a couple of free DV codecs you can use.

[Paul_W]

It's not clear from your post that you are using Premier to convert from AVI to MPEG. If you are not, then try this from Premier 6.5 and see if you get better results.

"File"
"Export Timeline"
"Adobe MPEG Encoder"

[sbCerebus]

i wasn't using premiere to convert to avi. i was exporting as uncompressed dv avi, then trying to compress later. I have premiere 6.0 i believe, and will see if i can use it to directly produce mpeg2. I will also look in the tools section for the codec i need.

Cheers.

[_e_]

when I used Premiere 6.0 I would do this

export timeline - movie - avi (MS DV AVI)

I never had problems bringing in that .avi to TMPEGnc.

I have v6.5 now and use the Adobe MPEG2 encoder but I have it make m2v and wav files to make a DVDs of my home movies.

[DJRumpy]

Once you get the codec, you should be all set. At least with the error in TMPGenc anyway...

[Sugar]

sbCerebus,

the way I do it is to export the video and audio separately...

To do so: File\Export timeline\video. You do not need to recompress the file. Save it as an .avi file.
File\Export tomeline\audio. Save it as a .wav file

In TMPGenc, load the video .avi file and compress it sith the setting on video mode only. Personnaly I compress the audio with Besweet GUI and SSRC. Change the audio sampling rate from 32hz to 48hz and, if your authoring software supports it, compress the .wav file into and .ac3 file.

You can mux the audio and video in TMPGEnc if need be after conversion.

[CaptainStupid]

I am having the same problem. I'm able to encode and decode AVI's all day long using the DV AVI codec in Premiere 6.0, but TMPEgnc won't read the file. Anyway, the method described here
http://www.creativecow.net/articles/gordon_dan/premiere_dvd/
and here
https://www.videohelp.com/premiereavisynth.htm
seems to be the best way to go, I'm going to try it tonight and see what happens.

[FOO]

There is now a frameserver for Premier , MS7, and Vegas.
I have tried it to the extent of opening output with Vdub.
I obviously need to try it with CCE & TMP

www.debugmode.com