Problems editing an mpg in premiere

[PharmBoy]

Would appreciate your help

I had a friend that was on a newscast. I happened to have my tivo on and captured it to my computer through the Tivotogo software on my computer. I then converted it to an mpg with directshow dump. I can play the file just fine in windows media player. I then drop it into adobe premiere cs3 and everytime I do it crashes.
I can see that the video properties are 480x480 29.97 and the audio is listed as 48000 hz compressed stereo.

Any other suggestions of what I can do to clean this up so that adobe won't crash.

Looking for freeware software as I don't plan on doing this often if possible.

[guns1inger]

Premiere isn't a native mpg editor, so it isn't the best tool for this job. You haven't said what you actually want to do with the video, so it is difficult to suggest alternatives. If you have to use Premiere then you may have to convert it to a more edit friendly (or Premiere friendly) format. DV would be the first choice, but you would have to resize or add borders to get to DV resolution.

Otherwise consider something like AVI Demux for editing.

[poisondeathray]

I skipped Premiere CS3, but CS4 seems to work fine with MPEG2 content.

The other possiblity as your "dump" didn't generate a proper stream with headers intact. Videoredo is supposed to work with Tivo streams to make a compliant MPEG2 stream. Maybe you could use the trial (I don't think it has any limitations) since you are doing this once.

[PharmBoy]

My plan was to edit the extra stuff around my friend out so all I was left was the newspiece about her.
I was going to drop it into DVDlab Pro and author her a short DVD - Nothing fancy with titles just something she could throw in her DVD player.

[poisondeathray]

For simple cuts, avidemux as suggested earlier should work (and free), provided your streams have no errors from the dump. Videoredo is probably the among the best MPEG2 editors for cutting, because it is frame accurate and re-encodes the few frames around the cut site if not on an keyframe. It also has a "quickstream fix" which often gets rid of MPEG2 issues.

Also, 480x480 isn't DVD compliant, you can't drop that into DVDLab Pro

[lordsmurf]

VideoReDo would be my suggestion here too. Author to an SVCD, or re-encode to DVD compliant 720x480 specs.

[PharmBoy]

I installed Avidemux and when I play the file there it seems that the audio is off from the video.
I found that when I put it in premiere it was during the "conforming" step that it crashed would that add any clues?
Its wierd that in the player it is in sync but in the avidemux it is off.

[poisondeathray]

If it's a constant delay, you can use the audio shift (checkmark shift, enter the delay +/- in ms and hit enter) in avidemux, you can fix it on the fly then readjust.