Adobe Premiere Help

[keithejohnson]

I have captured some home movies and have created a project within Adobe Premiere 6. I would like to export the video in VCD format. So far, I have only been able to export using the Microsoft AVI format and seem to be unable to open the resulting avi file with TMPGEnc or any of the other tools I have. Can someone offer some advice on how to do this with Premiere or some other tool?

I tried to edit my MPG file with some other tools and the audio always seemed to get out of sync. It seemed that when I cut a piece of video, the audio remained. Premiere is the only tool that I have found to not do that. I'm not doing anything fancy so another tool will work fine too I suppose. Ideally, I would like to just cut the MPG into several clips that I can then chapter with Nero.

Any help is appreciated.

[PhArAoH]

Well, there are few things I think you need to know. If you want to export from Premiere timeline to MPEG (VCD) you have to install an MPEG plugin for Premiere such as LSX, Panasonic, CCE etc. These will cost you money.
The other method is to use a freeware avisynth or aviwrapper frameserver from www.videotools.net. With these plugins you can frameserve to an external encoder such as TMPGenc. The plugin will create a fake AVI or a file with AVS exetension depending on whether you use aviwrapper or avisynth. You then open these files with TMPgenc and encode.

You mentioned that you're able to export to Microsoft AVI format only. This is uncompressed format and will take huge amount of disk space for a short video. You should however, be able to export to DV AVI which takes something like 13 GB for an hour video. Bothe these formats should be accepted by TMPGenc. The following might help:

Go to Options Menu --> Environmental Settings -->VFAPI plug-in --> increase the Prority of the Directshow Multimedia Filereader by righ-clicking on it.

As far as editing/cutting/joinning MPEGs is concerned I use IFilmEdit 1.4 and so far have had no problems.

And finally, there is no need to cut your MPG to make chapters (unless that's what you specifically want) This will cause a brief pause betwen chapters when in normal playback mode.
If you want to avoid that I suggest you familiarize yourself with VCDeasy (freeware) which will help you achieve that without cutting the MPG file. These are called Entrypoints rather than chapters. Of course, you can always buy a commercial (S)VCD authoring tool such as Ulead DVD MovieFactory or Ulead DVD Workshop.

PhArAoH

[keithejohnson]

Thanks for the info. Increasing the priority solved the problem with TMPGenc.

The only reason I wanted to split the MPEG file for chaptering was to use a title and image for the Table of Contents view on the VCD. The only way I have done this before was with Nero with seperate files. Can this be done with VCD Easy with a single file and entry points?