Combining mpg and avi footage

Hi,
I am trying to pull together video footage taken at my brother-in-laws wedding. The tape footage is .avi which is supported by premier pro but the footage taken on a Sony HDD digital camera is saved as .mpg and comes up as an unsupported format, it is also not recognised as a recording device in a capture screen. I have spent the afternoon trying converters to get it into avi but it then plays in slow motion or is a still because I am using trail versions. Have you any ideas?? I need to work it out quickly as once I go home in 5 days I will have no time to look at it. I am already planning an all nighter!!
I do want to combine the two different videos so it plays as one.
Thank you Sarah

Sarah,
You will not be able to Capture from the HDD camera in PrPro. As Harm mentions, if you have the trial, you cannot do anything regarding MPEG.
You will need to copy over the .MPEG (not sure if it writes this as a .VOB, or a straight MPEG file, to your computer, and then convert that/those file(s) to DV-AVI Type II, and then Import that/those file(s), into PrPro. I use DigitalMedia Converter, but there are free conversion programs that do it too, like Prism. Then, you will edit, and Export as DV-AVI to be used by an authoring program. With the trial, you will not have Encore, Adobe's excellent authoring app. Still, there are many others, that work, though not nearly so well. I think that Roxio, Nero and CyberLink have some authoring capabilities in certain of their programs. I do not use anything but Encore, so do not know how well, or poorly, these other programs function.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - if the other camera records to miniDVD, or uses the .VOB container, this ARTICLE will give you some background on that "format."

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In what follows when I say "crash" I mean Encore quits with a standard Windows error. When I say "hang" I mean Encore does not quit but rather becomes an unresponsive process that must be killed manually using Windows Task Manager.
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channels LAME3.96r, 717436 KB.
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footage6.avi - XVID XviD 1.1.0 Final, Dolby AC3 48kHz 448kb/s Six
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