CL Digital VCR MPG files will not open in TMPenc or virtual

[buecker]

I converted the files and now what to edit them. I can't get them to open!

Any suggestions?

[Roginator]

You could open them with programs like Womble's MPEG2VCR, or MyFlix XE.

You can also open them with DVD2AVI or Flask. You could use those programs to separate the audio and video, then merge the audio and video with Avisynth to feed to other programs like VirtualDub.

Be warned: if you try to use conventional methods of working with longish MPEG-2 files you will probably run into audio-video sync problems.

I'm trying to convert 60-minute US TV to CD-size using MPEG-1 at 1950kbps. I take the MPEG-2 output by Creative's conversion program, chop out the program parts, extract audio, do an inverse telecine and temporal smoother in Avisynth, merge in Avisynth, feed to Virtualdub where saturation and brightness are increased, then frameserve to TMPGEnc. FINALLY, the files are merged using TMPGEnc.

My next test is to record at a lower bitrate to see if I can avoid a lot of extra work.

[buecker]

Sounds like a lot of work. that sucks