From MPEG to AVI or MOV

[j21099]

On Archive.org, there are some movies that I will use in my production. The downloaded movies all carry an MPG extension. I can play both audio and video from an MPG file in QuickTime.

The problem is when an MPG file is imported in FCP or Premiere, only video shows up. I have tried to use VirtualDub, VLC and QuickTime to convert an MPG to AVI or MOV so as to access both audio and video. So far, I have no good luck. Does anyone know how to edit an MPG file from archive.org?

Many thanks.

Edgar Huang

[redwudz]

Drop the file into Gspot 2.60 and see what it has to say about the audio and video format. If it's a MPEG, it may be AC3. (Dolby Digital audio) You can decode AC3 with VirtualDub Mod and the AC3 ACM Decompressor. Other possibilities are DTS, PCM(uncompressed audio), MPEG-1 Layer2 and maybe a few other odd formats.

And welcome to our forums.

EDIT: There are a lot of different formats there. It may not be a MPEG, at least not MPEG-1 or 2. But Gspot should tell you.