Hope someone can assist me with my process...

[Cralis]

G'day guys,

I am starting to loath shooting home videos. The reason is that the processing of the video files is a nightmare for me.

I have a JVC Everio HD camera. So it shoots in .TOD format. Not the best move ever by JVC, and a reason my next camera will probaby be a SONY, but anyway...

I copy the .TODs into a 'Raw' folder, and the fun begins.

Another great user of these forums (Snoopfish, I think) made me a batch file which ran through a folder, finding all .TOD files, then did this to each file:

ffmpeg -i "%%a" -deinterlace -vcodec mpeg2video -qscale 1 -qmin 1 -intra -an -y "%%~na.mpg"

That deinterlaced the files, and converted them to .mpg files (no audio).

It then did:

ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vn -acodec copy -y "%%~na.mp2"

That extracted the audio into an MP2 file.

Finally it did:

ffmpeg -i "%%a" -vn -acodec pcm_s16le -ar 48000 -y "%%~na.wav" && del "%%a"

That converted the MP2 to WAV I think.

So, this meant I can now edit the video in Sony Movie Studio. I'd drag the video file onto the time line, then drag on the WAV file, line them up, and group them. And I was then able to edit my de-interlaced video.

This works fine.

However, I have a new filter I'd like to use, but it's only usable in VirtualDub. So, I need to now open the MPG file in VirtualDub ... FAIL!! VirtualDub doesn't accept the new file format! So, I'm snookered.

The filter I am using is the Deshaker... but because I have MPG files, I am unable to use it. What I am going to try do is, edit the MPG video in Sony, then render it as some sort of AVI... then open the whole rendered AVI in VirtualDub, and try the deshaker.

Is there maybe a better more efficient way to do this?

[lowellriggsiam]

Do you have the same problem with virtualdubmod?

[Cralis]

I'll check that out, lowellriggsiam, thanks.

[Cralis]

lowellriggsiam, I download it, but its a 900k file. Is there a full install somewhere?

[lowellriggsiam]

lowellriggsiam, I download it, but its a 900k file. Is there a full install somewhere?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod/files/

[jagabo]

I believe MpegStreamClip can convert .TOD (MPEG transport stream) to .MPG (MPEG program stream). You should then be able to open the MPG file with VirtualDub (if you have the MPG source filter). You might try just renaming the file .TOD to .MPG or .TS. Be aware that VirtualDub handles interlaced YV12 data incorrectly.