PINNACLE MIRO DC30 PLUS CAPTURE AND SVCD CONVERSION

[inkollusekar]

Hello all,

I am having really tough time to figure the problem. I am capturing 640 X 480 using Mirocapture driver and converting into SVCD using TMPGenc1.1.

The video captures fine, when I convert it to svcd and play it in DVD player, all the fast moving scenes are crapped out. It is kind of like waving across the screen. What I am doing it wrong.

P.S captured AVI displays fine in Windows Media Player in the computer.

Thanks

[TOMMO]

Make sure you get the field settings correct when converting - make sure the two matc. If you capture upperfield first make sure the encode method is the same.

Also, try deinterlacing the source from within the settings menu when encoding. Blend works quite well.

Resize the 640 capture in Premiere to 480 x 480, uncheck the aspect ratio to get Premiere to accept that size. Then, in export video, settings, Modify, choose resize to 480x480 and choose better resize. Leave interlace on and upper field first in previous screens. Export that file and encode IT in TMPGEnc. Do not let any other program resize for you. THat is what works for me. I used to have a DC 30 card and now must use Morgan or PicVideo for those capcdc[16] files.

[inkollusekar]

Thanks for the reply. Does premiere really captures it in 480 X 480 resolution. Even though I tried setting the size, after capturing the file properties displays the lower default resolution 352 x 240. Any ideas to really capture in that resolution.

Premiere 5.1 Miro DC30 Plus.

I am really frustrated even after spending $400, the software and the hardware does'nt give what we want DVD/SVCD/VCD. Freewares like TMPGenc allows us to encode it to AVI to other formats.

MiroVideo was made for tape editing and recording, not vcd, svcd, dvd, all that is newer. It does the tape job very well. It may be used to make the others with more work.

That is about where I am. I have Premiere 5.1 left over from miroVideo and now use it with the ATI card I had bought just for overlay in Premiere. Glad to have it now. I can still capture analog video, but now I only make SVCD.

Premiere will NOT capture in 480 x 480, it WILL capture in 704 for making the 352 VCDs. Or, quick and simple, just capture in 352, but I don't think they look as good. Premiere will RESIZE down from 640 to 480 nicely.

VirtualDub and avi-io capture in 480 x 480 and also capture file after file under the 2GB limit. That's another thing Premiere doesn't do. But does it ever EDIT nicely. Wow, what a complete and comprehensive program. I'll never learn all the things it can do, and I bought the VHS training tapes, 6 of them and an intro tape. Phew! They really help.

Most folks still only have VHS so keep making tapes. I hope DVD is as easy to do some day.

[inkollusekar]

I am puzzled, I have captured the entire video with 10 minutes breaks each using mirocapture and export it using Adobe Premiere 5.1. It is a 1.5 gig file each, I tried to export one file and premiere does'nt complete the export and crap out in the middle of 18 minutes to go status.

I have Windows ME and 80 Gig hard drive, but premiere complains about hard drive full and cannot write to the disk.

Is it really so painful to make a SVCD using these miro and adobe?

Please any help is appreciated.

There is a 2 GB limit on any one file. However, bbMPEG, which compresses so very much, will export the entire movie of many files less than 2 GB each without any breaks. bbMPEG is on the disks that come with Premiere as a plugin.
I hope that helps some.

[inkollusekar]

Thanks for the rescue again. I have four CD disks came with the product. I searched on all four disks and could not find the bbMpeg. Can you please send me instructions on how to add/use/find the bbmpeg and load it in the system.

Thanks for all the help.

http://www.members.cox.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html
Here is the web site to download from if it isn't included on a CD you have already.
Sorry about that, it was megaPEG LE that was included with Premiere, it is on the 5.1 disk. It also encodes mpeg. Put the video into the source window and make that window active, then go to file and near export you will find megaPEG as an export option. It is fun to use, but do download the bbMPEG program.
Read the readme files to see how to get them to be active. There is a file to copy into a Premiere folder and it must be renamed, that's all. Pretty easy as I remember.