Encoding captured avi directly to mpeg in TMPGenc

[Tarin]

I have a question I wonder if anyone can help me with. I've got an old videotape I'd like to backup to DVD format. I capture the tape using Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5. However, when trying to convert the captured video to mpeg with TMPGenc, the program does not recognize the captured file as a valid avi.

The only way I can do it is to actually render the whole video in Premiere (which takes a long time) and then export the video to avi (which takes a long time) and only then convert to mpeg. Why is this, and is there any way to save the time it takes me to do this?

[Baldrick]

Output to dvd directly with premiere ?

What avi video format are you capturing to? dv-avi? then might you need a dv codec for tmpgenc like panasonic dv codec or frameserve directly from premiere pro to tmpgenc with debugmode frameserver.

[bufalo]

why don't you just choose "export timeline" and then "adobe media encoder" and choose "mpeg-2"?

what format is the tape?