DV to MPEG1 using TMPGEnc

[lemmy999]

A friend has captured DV to his computer and edited it with Premiere. The resulting DV AVI plays fine in media player. When he loads it in to TMPGEnc for conversion to MPEG1 or MPEG2, the resulting video has sound but no video. Even before conversion, if the preview is selected, there is no video. We tried a WMV file and it converted and played fine. What are we doing wrong? We are using TMPGEnc 2.54.37.135.

[Capt.Video]

Maybe wrong DV type. You may have caped in DV2, and TMPGEnc likes DV1. I forget which is which.

Wait one... You mentioned Premier. I think that caps in DV2, while Ulead MSP does it in DV1... or vice versa.

Man, Id have to look...

But I think the problem will be in there somewhere, the DV type.

HTH,
Andrew

[lordsmurf]

Don't convert to MPEG-1. That will force a deinterlace, and it'll look like crap. DV is a native interlaced format. Be sure to do some reading before jumping in with both feet.

What exactly are you doing again?

That list of software doesn't go together. I have a feeling your taking the long way around what should be simple, and worse yet, likely end up with dismal quality output.

Let's take a few steps back and look at the big picture before answering your question right away.

[lemmy999]

I don't remember how, but we finally found something that worked. I think he used Premier to convert to MPEG2 and it worked fine.

As far as what we were trying to do, it is pretty simple actually. Just import DV from camera to computer, cut out some footage (edit), then end up with the video as an MPEG2, MPEG1, or any other compressed format. The only reason he wanted MPEG1 was because any computer is capable of playing the file.