Very Difficult Encoding Job

[clothesburner626]

Full length DVDs encoded to wmv (streaming).

Need to be devided into individual scenes (Adobe Premiere) and encoded for iPod.

When I run "Get Properties for" on the original file in Premiere, it comes up 29 frames per second - not 29.97 - but 29.

The audio and video are out of sync in Premiere after rendering. The situation worsens the longer it plays.

Is it even possible to do what I've described to a file that's already been encoded to wmv (streaming)?

Believe me, I'd much rather be working on the avi file but that's not possible. Thanks for all of your help.

[whitejremiah]

if you have the wmv video on your harddrive, you can load it into tmpgenc and output it to something like huffyuv, lagaroth lossless, or MSU lossless...that will at least get you in avi format....as for the audio, i'd have to guess that the reason it is out of synch is because it was actually sourced from a 29.97fps source and it's slowly dropping enough framerate to become noticeable...but after it's in avi through the conversion i mentioned using tmpgenc, you can load it into virtualdub, chop it up as needed, hopefully fix the framerate, and recompress.....mind you, im not sure how big the full video is your intending on converting, but this could be a VERY harddrive consuming process.........just kinda for example, right now, im dealing with something in huffyuv lossless, and its somewhere in the area of 40gb...i think it's a total of around an hour and a half long or so, give or take some and its not even full dvd resolution...........so be prepared if you go that route to sacrafice a significant chunk of your harddrive, at least temperarily....

[clothesburner626]

Thanks for your response..... this seems like not only a VERY hard drive consuming process but time consuming process as well.......... I am just going to have to tell my boss that it would be faster and easier to recapture the dvds in avi format and go from there............. it took three hours to render a 2gb wmv streaming file back to avi last night.... conformed audio folder in Premiere was something like 14gb.... preview folder was 20!!! Then the audio and video didn't even line up....

I can capture a full length dvd in the same amount of time it takes to play, insert the avi into premiere without having to render anything, make my edits, and convert to iPod all in less than three hours.

Is there a way to rip the dvd and then convert to avi as opposed to capture in real time? Thanks!!!

[dirtydan]

I hope this is appropriate here. To work with DVDs use Handbrake.

[yoda313]

Is there a way to rip the dvd and then convert to avi as opposed to capture in real time? Thanks!!!

Yes you can use dvdfabdecrypter and rip to the harddrive. Then you can use virutaldubmod or virtualdubmpeg2 to convert to your favorite avi codec.

[clothesburner626]

Is there a way to rip the dvd and then convert to avi as opposed to capture in real time? Thanks!!!

Yes you can use dvdfabdecrypter and rip to the harddrive. Then you can use virutaldubmod or virtualdubmpeg2 to convert to your favorite avi codec.

Is DivX a avi codec?

[yoda313]

Yes divx is a very popular codec for avi.