Possible to load SVCD mpeg's in Premiere 6.5?

[RimmeR]

Hi,
I have some old SVCD and VCD compliant mpeg files that I want to load onto the timeline in premiere.

The file extensions are mpg.
Some of the files properties are like so :-
the_park.mpg
File Size: 795.64MB bytes
Total Duration: 0:54:05:09
Average Data Rate: 251.04KB per second
Image Size: 480 x 576
Pixel Depth: 0 bits
Frame Rate: 25.00 fps
Audio: 44100 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo

If so can i join a few together then "Matrox realtime export to disc" using my RTX100. I want to get all my old family svcd and vcd's that I have, before I had a DVD burner and archive them onto DVD-R.

Any ideas?
Thanks

[BJ_M]

no - premiere 6.5 is not a mpeg editor .. you could frame serve them to premiere though ..

[dcsos]

Premier 6.5 is a lousy Mpeg editor..It makes em good but to re-edit em you'll get artifacts

You want a joining program that hinges your clips together
so you keep 'em in the format you have 'em in

That is ---join all the MPEG-2 together and make a SVCD

Join all the Mpeg-1 and make a VCD

but don't mix em..
OR ARE YOU MAKING A DVD? then right use premiere... you'll need to convert all of em..with subsequent quality loss (slight in the re-rendering process) as you make 720x480 DVD compliant versions of the files

Joining programs
MPEG2VCR the Womble Edit
TMPG ENC.. (supposed to do this joining effortlessly..but i never get it to work
VirtualDub (?)

[RimmeR]

I'm not editing them. I just want to join a few together so then i can recompile them onto a dvdr.
EG. I have the_park.mpg, the_park2.mpg, the_park3.mpg on SVCD
Therefore remove three SVCD's and have one DVD-R.
My RTX100 does realtime mpeg2 encoding for DVD at fantasic quality. Thats why I want to try to load them into premiere and not use TMPGenc to encode them to DVD/mpeg2 using software.
Cheers

[BJ_M]

the RTX100 encoder is really software encoding with some hardware assist - not saying its bad or anything , but there is better ...

[FOO]

You dont have to join them. In fact you want to avoid it.
When you finally get them to the correct format
just put them separately into your authoring program.
Joining MPEGs is likely to cause problems if they do not
have identical parameters. Guaranteed if you are mixing VCDs and SVCDs

[RimmeR]

But....whats the best way to convert SVCD mpg's into DVD compliant ones If it is or is not possible with my RTX and prem 6.5.

[FOO]

First thing I'd try is open them directly with TMPGenc.
if that doesn't work open with Vdub and Frameserve that to TMPGenc
If that doesnt work open with MF2 and see what happens.