help changing .mp2 movie into .mpg or .avi

[NoEvilPeople]

i shot some movie with my video camera and used ATI's multimedia center 7.2 with Video In program to capture it through my Rage Fury Pro card with video in.

it saved it as .mp2 movie and i cant import that to windows movie maker or adobe premiere to edit it. i cant view it with windows media player, only with ATI file player.

im looking for some way to convert it to .mpg, .mpeg, .avi, .wmv, ANYTHING that i can actually edit. I tried using ATIs site to find out what to do, they say that you can change with Multimedia center but i dont see how.

I was able to make an SVCD out of the footage, with Nero, it told me that it was the wrong type of file to make an svcd out of so i told it to convert it and it did and it plays in the dvd player and with power dvd on the computer. i am unable to play the .mpg's it created on the SVCD with widows media player or ATI file player. I am also again unable to import them into Premiere or Movie Maker.

i need help. if anybody knows how to solve this problem, so i can edit this footage email me please, ill be so greatful.

noevilpeople@hotmail.com

[NoEvilPeople]

awwwww, come on no one knows how to do this?? its killing me, that footage is very important to me and i dont want to have to do video out, save it to vcr, and re-import it, its going to look so bad.

[Poplar]

Is your camera a DV cam? I am not familiar with your video and capture card, but I believe you should and you can capture your footage to raw AVI files, which are editable with Premiere and many other tools. Then you can convert them to SVCD or anything else. That's how it is done.

[oldfart13]

My own setup: ATI All In Wonder 7500 and MMC 7.5 allows me to cap in Mpeg-2 at bitrates above 7MB/s. The file is an MP2 but you can rename it to MPG. Don't use Nero to reencode. I use TMPGEnc with various templates for VCD or SVCD. I'd try the frameserve route through Virtual Dub but the VFW for WDM wrapper doesn't work on my system (Win 98SE) so i can't frameserve. Awaiting the day when VDub and CCE will accept Mpegs directly. Also, make sure you capture in CBR. I find it's best for editing. If you're using DV, I can't help you as I have no DV camcorder and the 7500 doesn't have firewire anyway...

[cranston]

NoEvil:

I have an AIW 128 Pro. I also do most of my captures at MPEG-2 640x480 6MB/sec, and convert to VCD. I'm using MMC 7.6 (and don't want to fvck with it now that I finally got it to work ... so unless I have to reload Windoze, no 7.7 for me).

What I do is to run the saved MP2 files thru DVD2AVI. DVD2AVI won't want to natively load the ATI MP2 files, but if you set the opening file list to show all files, and find the MP2 capture file, and provided you have all the CODECs, ASPI, VFW to WDM, etc up and running properly, DVD2AVI will create a d2v file, in similar fashion to what happens with the results out of SmartRipper. DVD2AVI will also strip the MPEG audio track, and subsequently allow TMPGEnc to read both audio and video. Load those created audio and video files into TMPGEnc, and create your VCD. Another suggestion was to frameserve ... I only figured out how to do that recently, and I think it's more complicated than necessary for this particular job. I've never tried the approach of changing the filename ... never occurred to me. I have about a hundred cartoons and TV shows I've captured and converted to MPG/VCD, so I can attest that my approach does work.

FWIW, in TMPGEnc, I also set the Ghost Reduction on, the Noise Reduction on, the Sharpen Edge on, and the quality to highest/slowest. If it's a cartoon, make sure you set the Quantize Matrix to Animation. I make the files into standard VCDs, altho I guess I could make SVCDs, but my results with SVCDs have been less than stellar. I find the Noise Reduction doubles-triples the encoding time, but the results are outstanding.

BTW:

1. Thanks to all of you out there who've helped me along. I've been lurking for quite awhile, and appreciate all the advice.

2. Am I alone in that I can't seem to get drop-free captures with Virtual Dub/AVI-IO using HuffYUV on an Athlon 2000 with a 90GB RAID and everything else shut off? It drove me crazy for awhile, but then I just decided to capture at MPEG-2 and downconvert, which works for the most part. I get a dropped frame here and there, but that's OK.

3. Even tho I'm running 98SE, the VFW to WDM wrapper works for me.

Cheers
Cran

[NoEvilPeople]

thanks a lot cranston!!! DVD2AVI exported the video great. i just need to change the audio that it exported from .mpa to .mp3 and then i am set to edit!! thanks again.

[Craig Tucker]

thanks a lot cranston!!! DVD2AVI exported the video great. i just need to change the audio that it exported from .mpa to .mp3 and then i am set to edit!! thanks again.

email me at noevilpeople@hotmail.com if you are interested in warez and FTPs. i dont believe i am allowed to post about that here, but i might have some stuff you could want.

No, you are not allowed to post about that here, so why did you ?. If you know the rules and decide to ignore them anyway this is a very good way to get banned from the forum.

[cranston]

thanks a lot cranston!!! DVD2AVI exported the video great. i just need to change the audio that it exported from .mpa to .mp3 and then i am set to edit!! thanks again.

NoEve:

You should be able to read that MPA file in TMPGEnc. In similar fashion to what you did with DVD2AVI, open up the audio, select "All files", and poof! the MPA file will be there and loadable.

Thanx anyway, but I think I'll pass on the other offer.

Cran

[NoEvilPeople]

No, you are not allowed to post about that here, so why did you ?. If you know the rules and decide to ignore them anyway this is a very good way to get banned from the forum.

sorry, i edited the post. i didnt mean to post that, i meant to PM it, careless mistake.

[Stanley Bostitch]

Hey i capped a TV show w/ PowerVCR II @ All SVCD settings except at 3000kbps video.

I ran it thru DVD2AVI and when I try and encode parts of it w/ Tmpegenc the sound is off.

The .mpa file DVD2AVI created says "77ms delay" in the filename, but i think Tmpegenc isnt adding that delay.

Any help?

[cranston]

StanleyB:

I've had minimal luck with making usable Super VCDs off captures, so I stick to VCDs. You'll have to consult with a 100lb brain out here who knows how to do it.

Cran

[Stanley Bostitch]

I love the video quality of mpeg2 SVCD caps, but the sound NEVER matches up for me, unless i leave it as the original, unedited, commercial packed video file.

I DON'T care for the qualtiy of all of my VCD caps that i make at 1500kps (i know thats xvcd), but i like the scheduler in PowerVCR.

Does anybody here know how to capture (preferably w/ PowerVCR) at SVCD, edit w/ Tmpegenc, and save the audio sync? I think the .mpa audio file DVD2AVI is the thing that's messing everything up.

[Bradskey]

I get beautiful caps with PowerVCR at high bitrates, and since I have an ATI TV Wonder, PowerVCR is the only way I have to get nice 480-line caps, but I also cannot convert them to a SVCD (using TMPGEnc) with synchronized audio to save my life. The picture still looks great, but no matter what I try the audio is always out of sync and it gets gradually worse as the video plays. I've tweeked settings all over the place, tried using mp2, mpa and wav audio sources, tried frameserving from DVD2AVI, tried inserting silence into the audio stream, stretching/shrinking the audio. NOTHING WORKS! There simply is NO way that I can find to make it work, which pisses me off somewhat because I paid money for TMPGEnc Plus specifically to be able to do MPEG2 encoding (a la SVCD) and it isn't working.

[oldfart13]

My own system:

Cap 6 - 7 MB/s CBR Mpeg-2 with ATI AIW 7500

Run Mpeg-2 through DVD2AVI to get d2v and mpa streams

Open Goldwave and match mpa audio offset by inserting silence for the same amount of time, then maximizing audio (aka normalize) and saving as a WAVE

Load TMPGEnc and select SVCD or VCD template, adjust settings, etc.

Add d2v and WAVE files and then start encoding

After many hours (PIII 1GHz) I have an in sync VCD or SVCD file that I burn to disc with Nero

Have had to use this system since there are few Win 98SE WDM AVI solutions that will work for me. Virtual Dub with vfwforwdm wrapper can't be used on my system (the author seems to acknowledge this now on his site) and other programs like IUVCR cannot do segmented AVIs or won't work under Win 98SE.

Any other solutions??

[oldfart13]

Oops! I should also mention that I use ATI Multimedia Center (MMC) 7.5/7.6 with Stinky's Registry Tweaker to remove Macrovision and the mp2 file that MMC creates is manually changed to the mpg extension. Works for me...