mpg to avi to dv tape

[reu]

Hi,

I recently have been capturing some video files (avi) from my dv cam then adding some effects/audio and then uploading them back to my dv cam which i then transfer to vhs to give to my friends...My one friend in particular loves euro music videos and i have a whole bunch in mpg form...can i encode these in some way so that my dv cam (which is a panasonic pvd101k) that it will recognize it and upload it....i have tried to change it to an avi with success but the cam does not recognize the avi file like i had captured it and therefore cannot upload it...

please help!!!!

[jtor]

...when you created the AVI, what codec did you use? You should be using a DV codec.

hope this helps.

[reu]

where can i get this codec? how do I use it to encode the mpg?? :lol:

[jtor]

I recently have been capturing some video files (avi) from my dv cam then adding some effects/audio and then uploading them back to my dv cam which i then transfer to vhs to give to my friends

The fact that you've already transferred video from your dv cam to pc, did some edits, and transferred back to dv cam, means that you already have (and used) a DV codec installed on your system.

i have tried to change it to an avi with success but the cam does not recognize the avi file like i had captured it and therefore cannot upload it...

In order to transfer a video back to a dv cam, the video file (AVI) should have been created using a DV Codec compressor. You mentioned that you've succeeded in changing an MPEG to AVI; What software did you use to convert your MPEG to AVI? And did it not have an option for compressors?