In need of an Adobe Premiere MPEG-2 IMPORT plug-in

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ReDeath

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Hey, folks!... New to this great-looking forum... I'm needing a bit of advice from those with much more experience in this than I...

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-350 MPEG-2 video capture card, and I have been pleased with it. I've been capturing standard DVD-quality MPEG-2 video with it, and now am in need of two things: (1) some way of importing this video into Adobe Premiere 6.5, and (2) converting this video to Divx.

Of course, if I can succeed in doing the first item, then I can succeed in the second. Since I have Divx Professional codec installed on my Windows XP Pro system, if I can import my Hauppauge MPEG-2 video into Adobe Premiere, then I could render out a Divx video. Premiere doesn't seem to have native MPEG-2 import support, but can only export in MPEG 1/2 with its MainConcept export tool. Does anyone here know of a plug-in for Adobe Premiere which would allow me to import MPEG-2 video?...

If not, then I am willing to find some way of converting my existing MPEG-2 video to Divx MPEG-4. I have tried a few shareware tools out there, but have had no luck being able to render out quality Divx video, largely because these tools seem to use their own Divx architectures and don't allow me to customize my Divx rendering from Divx's own configuration (as I would be able to out of Premiere or any other decent non-linear video editor). Other tools--such as DVD rippers--don't seem to work well with an existing MPEG-2 file, but seem to function only to rip data from a DVD. Can anyone in this fine group offer me a utility that will convert my existing MPEG-2 video to MPEG-4 well?...

Thank you for reading my lengthy post, and for your advice (in advance)!...



Sincerely,

ReDeath
 
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ReDeath

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Thank you so much for your prompt reply!

Thank you very much, Blane, for your prompt reply! This is some worthwhile information! And thanks especially for the tutorial--no need to re-invent the wheel for myself...

I appreciate your effort. Thanks again!...
 
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celtic_druid

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I know DivX has built in cropping, resizing, etc. But if you want a little more control, then you should consider frameserving your file with AVISynth.
 
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ReDeath

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Which do folks like better: VirtualDub MPEG or AVIsynch?...

I'm grateful to be receiving the input I have in the transcoding applications... I have a couple folks recommending VirtualDub MPEG, and others AVIsynch... If my source files will always be MPEG-2 files, which do folks recommend using: VirtualDub MPEG or AVIsynch?...

By the way, I wanted to thank Blane for the link to the useful tutorial using VirtualDub MPEG to transcode MPEG to Divx. It was very useful, and it produced awesome results... I was hesitant to ask whether AVIsynch was better to work with than VirualDub MPEG, since I had such great and easy results from VirtualDub MPEG.

As before, I'm grateful for the input!...
 
Blane

Blane

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Well the good thing about this is that you have a choice. You should try them both and see which one works out better for you.
 
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celtic_druid

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If you mean AVISynth, well it is just for frameserving. It can't and doesn't encode, so you still need to use VirtualDub or similar to actually do the encoding.

The point of using AVISynth is that it allows you to take the MPEG2 file, crop, resize, filter to remove noise, adjust colours, etc. before your file gets to VirtualDub.

As I said though, with DivX, you can do most of that within the codec. Most codecs however you can not and even if you can, as I also said, with AVISynth you get more control also a lot more options.
 
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