problem converting after using pinnacle

[daverose808]

hi, i have pinnacle studio 7, and edited a home video with it. i soon realized i needed a bigger harddrive to keep working on it, so i saved the almost complete home video into an mpg because there wasnt enough room on the hard drive to make it into an avi. now that i have a bigger hard drive, i wish to re-edit it back in pinnacle, but i cant convert the file (well over 1 gig) into an avi file, which is the only kind of file pinnacle will recognize to edit. ive tried all the major recommended progs like virtualdubmod... im sure i would need to convert it into a regular avi file (likely around 12gigs) and not a divx file, so that pinnacle can recognize it...

my only other option, which is getting the mpg back on my mini-dv camcorder, is also not working. i converted the mpg into a dvd and then tried capturing the dvd through my dvd player into my mini dv camcorder, but the camcorder said "copy protected" and wouldnt record. i used TMPGEnc DVD author to make the dvd and i couldnt find any option to get rid of copy protection. if anyone knows how i can accomplish this, it would be much better than having to download another program, as ive downloaded half a dozen "mpg to avi" type progs that dont work.

any suggestions in either direction will be most appreciated!

[Baldrick]

why doesn't it work with virtualdubmod? any error msg when you open or convert?

try also virtualdub-mpeg2 and convert to huffyuv or panasonic dv

you can also try frameserve to pinnacle studio...i haven't tested it though, www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve

[daverose808]

i cant remember what the error was with virtualdubmod, and ive deleted the prog already... i think the avi file would have been too big using it. i remember that the avi file that would have been created with pinnacle wasnt that big, but with virtualdubmod, it was like hundreds of megabytes in a few seconds! maybe i didnt use the right settings...