Video Editing help requested

[andyf]

Hello!

Got a couple of SuperVCD's here on disk.. trouble is, each half takes up 811mb or so. I tried making a couple CD's from burning the .bin / .cue method, which fits onto an 80min CD or so... unfortunately, it doesn't play in this mode ... media player for example simply tries to open the file and hangs. Not so good.

So, using VCDGear, I convert the image into a playable .mpeg file. This is great! Quality is superb and everything. However, the files are 811mb each, and therefore don't fit onto CD at all :(

So what I proposed to do, to make a quick n' easy hack to get the files on CD, I wanted to split each mpeg into two half-size files. Unfortunately, they aren't standard mpeg format - Virtualdub won't read them (I was originally gonna convert to DivX which would fit on one CD) - gives MPEG Import Filter: pack synchronization error. So, I'm left with Adobe Premiere.

This loads the file in fine, plays inside the player window ok. However, I've not even attempted to do anything with premiere. Frankly I'm astounded I got that small clip of Matt_S to work :D

So can anyone a) teach me how to split a file into two and save them in Adobe Premiere, b) show me how to export the file in Premiere to a DivX encoded AVI, for example, retaining all the same settings from the original mpeg file!


-- edit --

Ok, gonna try exporting in Premiere from what I can see - unfortunately I can't seem to select an MP3 method for encoding the sound.. I'll just dump it uncompressed for now, VirtualDub can fix that after (if this works)..

here we go! :D

[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: andyf ]

[andyf]

nooo it's all going horribly wrong .. Premiere can't cope and locks up on frame 245 of 306 or something weird.

Boo hoo. I'm going to cry.

[beavertron]

forget what iwas gonna say
:rolleyes:

[ 08-03-2002: Message edited by: beavertron ]

[andyf]

I hate microsoft. I hate the goddamn directshow filters, i hate the goddamn priority media players gives the wrong ****, i hate how everything works when I set it up in graph edit, i hate how on the big computer when I try and fast forward on a SVCD it kills whatever is playing it, I hate how the goddamn ligos mpeg2 filters don't goddamn work on these files (they resize it from 640x480 to 480x480 for chrissakes), I hate it all. it's crap, **** arse poo cack cock arsed ******** poo nuggets.

[andyf]

After keeping the files all on hard disk, I reached a point today when I was about to remove them all.

I had a quick final look for an mpeg-2 converter and found, through the DVD Digest site, a rather funky program.

MPEG Mediator - takes an MPEG1 or MPEG2 file as input, spits out an AVI-encoded file as output.

Just finished a file off now - from an 805mb MPEG2 file to a 258mb DiVX encoded file. Excellent :) I can whap up the data rate for the output file and get a top picture which will finally fit on CD and free up the almost 5gb on disk they've been taking up.

That name again, MPEG Mediator
Good stuff ! :D

[Matt_S]

Originally posted by andyf
Frankly I'm astounded I got that small clip of Matt_S to work :D[ 07-03-2002: Message edited by: andyf ]

Goddamit!

Ive been waitin 4 that 4 ages mate...
Where the hell is it???

[andyf]

er... it's in "development hell", I can't get a decent script written as you're clothes sense severely limits the storylines :D