Audio problem encoding from DV1 file using TMPGEnc

[benchobi]

Hi all. I'm new to the digital video scene and I've already learned a lot from reading the forums and guides here, so I hope this hasn't already been covered.

I'm using TMPGEnc to encode digital video captured from my DV camera. From what I've read TMPGEnc is supposed to support DV1 and DV2, but I've found if I don't convert to DV2 then it's like someone has their finger on my audio track in the encoded mpeg (it drags along with the video). Converting to DV2 before encoding yields great results. I haven't tried extracing the audio using VDub and feeding it to TMPGEnc yet (mostly because I haven't taken the time to download and install a VFW codec required by VDub).

Now the obvious answer is "just always covert to DV2 and keep moving" but I'd rather save this step if possible - it takes a while to convert 5GB of video plus I now need twice the hard drive space because I have to create a DV2 file.

By the way, I tried using the freebie NeroVision that came with my DV cam to burn a VCD of the same video and got the exact same "finger on the audio track" results.

Any other ideas? Thanks!

[rcb]

dunno about the various freeware capturing apps, but ScenalyzerLive (shareware) will let you capture type 2 directly from your DV camera, cutting out the converting step...

[bugster]

DVIO is free and will capture directly to DV type 2.

[benchobi]

Thanks for the tips.

bugster, I didn't notice that tool. Nice! I'll try it. I've been using Ulead's VideoStudio that came with the camera. It's a nice capture utility but the version I have only captures DV1.