Mpeg output

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to export directly from FCP into mpeg format (and I mean original mpeg format). SInce FCP takes output from Quicktime, I guess the question is, is there some sort of plugin or software that would give me this as an option to output/convert video in QT?
I need this b/c I need to quickly output video for Office 2003/7 Powerpoint for Windows.
I use Flip4Mac to convert video to wmv in QT/FCP but also need mpeg format.
Any suggested software?
Thanks!

As you are using flip4Mac just continue ti use WMV files for Powerpoint
There is no reason to use MPEG if you can supply WMV
The quality of WMV is far superior and there are no compatability issues.

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Would iMovie do this?
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The manufacturer of the DVC150 only ships Windows desktop software.
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Has anyone experienced this before?
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Okay, I'm an idiot - Premiere 4 handles MP4 files, so I didn't need to do a conversion anyway. The MP4 came in fine.
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>typically pick the DVD 16x9 High Bit Rate setting
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switching over to Premiere Pro
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I first check whether the interlacing is present in the input and in the output as it should (I prefer interlaced output for it motion smoothness). Notice that a slow camcorder shutter speed will essentially produce progressive material (i.e. PAL 25 or NTSC 30 or slower shutter speed is progressive).
With .dv clips I use QT Player. I open the clip and turn on high quality playback:
You have to turn on high quality playback of the clip to see all quality (in QT 7 via Window/Show Movie Properties/Video Track/Visual Settings/High Quality -- do not enable Single Field or Deinterlace because they deinterlace playback). You can also set "QuickTime Player 7/Preferences.../General/Use high quality video setting when available" to make this the default.
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I could scale the MPEG display in QT Player but I use MPEG Streamclip which shows the VOB/MPEG as it should be after "show Full resolution" command is used (I don't now remember the exact name of that command).
When I get this far I check wheter the interlacing comb lines are evenly and "beautifully" displayed. Some encoding applications may distort interlacing and this is guaranteed to show in motion scenes when watched on a TV. Sometimes interlacing distortion is difficult to spot on a computer monitor but deinterlacing first the other and then the other field off (by copying a frame to GraphicConverter and deinterlacing it there) will usually reveal this.
Now, the interlacing might look OK on a computer monitor but some apps may put the fields into wrong order. This is difficult to spot on a computer monitor so I usually check this via a 50 Hz interlaced TV (the user must make sure that the DVD player isn't set for progressive playback etc...). Spotting wrong field dominance on such a TV is very easy because of the zigzag effect it produces.
Viewing the final output on a TV will best reveal interlacing problems but even then some users might have trouble seeing whether the material is interlaced or progressive to begin with... I have a 1 minute test clip that I'm VERY familiar with. It consists of smooth camcorder pans and I can readily tell if some issue in the workflow has made the material progressive because then the pans are not smooth but get that jerky progressive "film" look. But the existence of interlacing is readily seen on a computer monitor by those comb lines in moving scenes.
I hope this helped and didn't muddy the waters!

Anyone using a Canon ZR 60 with iChat 3.1.1 ?

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Premiere Elements 4 crash abend error dies

Just last year we got Premiere Elements for my kids to edit holiday videos. They didn't edit them because they said it crashed.
This week I've unistalled it from their computer and installed it on mine so that I can edit the holiday. They were right. It crashes regularly.
(Off topic but we only got v4 last year and it is already at 7? Were 4, 5, and 6 that bad?!)
I am running Windows XP Home edition on a Dell Inspiron 6400 with a 1TB external storage enclosure on an eSATA link - in other words there is plenty of space for the files and scratch disk. The box has a Core 2 Duo processor at 1.66GHz and 2GB of memory and has Service Pack 3 applied.
It also has the CS2 Pro suite on there (Premiere killed Bridge during install ).
The files that I am importing come from a JVC Everio and are in 16:9 format. I have read elsewhere various issues with the MOD format but yesterday by dint of using "interpret footage" and "conform to D1/DV PAL Widescreen 16:9 (1.422)" I managed to get output from Premiere... finally. It only took me 2 days for 10 seconds of test footage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, having achieved that, I want to process the holiday pictures.
The thing is I can't believe how unstable Premiere is. It crashes at the least little thing. Just now I've been dragging files down to the timeline - crash with no message. Then I re-start it, repeat... repeat... repeat... I was typing this up and saw that it had finished "conforming" a file (whatever that means) and went "file/save". It crashed. "sorry for any inconvenience". When it opened I went to organiser, sorted by "oldest first" and grabbed the scroll bar to drag down and see the files to get where I had been. It crashed.
Whilst typing this post it has crashed no less than 8 times. Unbelieveable. Did Adobe really ship a product that was this unstable?
Anyway, I'm not here intending to moan about how unstable it is (that's just a by product ). I actually want to find out if there are any known issues that cause this kind of behaviour so that I may fix it and use it for what it is designed to do.
At this instant I reckon it is less use than a chocolate tea-pot. At least you can admire that and enjoy eating it!
So... anyone? How do you get Premiere to... well... to do anything without crashing?

MarkitVision,
I think that you have it very close. The DV-AVI Type II is the newer version, though it's very similar to the DV-AVI Type I. I have the exact spec. differences, just not handy. The majority of NLE's (Non Linear Editors) work best with the Type II variation. The most common complaint, when using the Type I in these is that Audio sync is often off (seems to be about 6 frames in most cases), but this OOS (Out Of Sync) issues is usually constant. It can be "fixed" with a bit of tweaking in the Timeline. Usually, it does not drift, or if it does, the drift is so little that one would not notice it with a typical Duration (say 20 mins.). Why Windows Movie Maker (WMM) still Exports to DV-AVI Type I is a mystery to me, especially when almost every other program uses the Type II, and the CODEC for it is from Microsoft (MS), after all. I suppose that it's a case of "that's the way that it's always been," and no one at MS wants to change a program that is basically free with the OS, or via download from the MS site. [Just a guess here.]
While one could have any file type listed as an AVI, including WMV and MPEG, it's most common to find other CODEC's inside, such as the Xvid and DivX, that you mention. Note: you will see the .DIVX extension for files using one of the various DivX CODEC's too. For the WMV's (many flavors), it's most often .WMV, or .ASF. For the MPEG variants, the extension (wrapper) is most often .MPEG/.MPG. For the Apple CODEC's, including the H-263 & H-264, one most often sees .MOV, or MP4 (MPEG-4). Some people, and programs, play fast-n-loose with the file extensions. I see all sorts of files listed as one type, and Windows Media Player (WMP) will often throw the message, "The file type listed is not correct... Do you wish to play the file anyway?" [Or similar syntax.] Other players, like VLC and Media Player Classic, usually do not bother with any error message, and just go about playing the file, regardless of how well the file extension matches the actual CODEC and content. These players just read the file header info and use that. The extension is only to show all AV files, as you browse from either of these two players - it's ONLY the header info, that they care about. Now, we've left out a bunch of other CODEC's that one often encounters, but most are older, not often used nowadays, and are most often found in a .AVI, .MPEG or .MOV wrapper. While not dead, we'll not concern ourselves with any of these, until the day that some client walks in with one, and then we just run it through G-Spot to find out the CODEC and get busy with Google trying to find it. Note that Motion JPEG (MJPEG) is showing up more often now (think Nikon D-90) and is often in a .MPEG wrapper.
The main difference between DV-AVI (either type) is that it's an I-Frame format, meaning that each "frame" is fully described - hence the file size difference. Most of the other formats use only one I-Frame at the start of a Group of Pictures (GOP), and then only contain data that is different for the next, say 15 frames. This yields smaller files, as only every 15, or so, frames is fully described - good compression, when the CODEC does a good job of it. However, you cannot effectively edit these in most programs. Think about it for a moment. You have a 15 frame GOP. Only the first (the I-Frame) is described, and the next 14 frames tie back to it for most of their info, only showing the difference. You cut out the I-Frame, and there is nothing to define the frame that is now the head of your Clip. That detail only existed in the I-Frame and it's no longer there. Converting to DV-AVI (or any I-Frame format) converts all difference frames into I-Frames. Now, you can cut. Different lossy CODEC's do this I-Frame/Difference-Frame (several different schemes and also different names for the non I-Frames) compression differently and with different numbers of frames in the GOP. Some are much better than are others. Their compression allows us to fit 1.5 hrs. of Video onto a 4.7GB DVD.
It's like Opening a JPEG in Photoshop (PS). The program rebulds the image to the best of its ability. Notice that the file size reported in PS is much larger than the JPEG appears in Windows Explorer. If we do a Save now, in either TIFF, or PSD, the size will be much larger than that original JPEG.
Using our less-than-perfect JPEG analogy, what one has with any HDD camera is: RAW (can't get it, or see it, as the camera makes the conversion inside) to JPEG. We then convert (inside the NLE, or via a 3rd party program) to TIFF. If we're going to DVD-Video (or any streaming format) to JPEG again. If we're using SD material, that is as good as it gets, which is more than tolerable. If we start with HD material, it's a bit better, but only slightly, until we output to BD for delivery. If we output that HD material to DVD-Video, we still have to use our old friend, MPEG-2. To distill, MPEG=JPG, DV-AVI=TIFF. In nearly all video cameras, we never get to see the RAW, as some form of compression usually takes place before the data is put onto a tape, or other media.
With MPEG output from the camera, we start with that JPEG, go to the TIFF and then back to JPEG. There will be quality hits initially, and when we output (unless we plan on watching only the DV-AVI). Usually, this will still be fine on a TV, though if we watch on a high-rez computer monitor, we will see the quality loss.
I also use CyberLink PowerDirector, when I need both conversion and light editing. Same for Magix, and a few others. They are but tools in my toolbox. You can never have too many. One can do a lot of work with one adjustable spanner. However, having a full set of tools is better. You can drive a nail with that spanner, but a hammer works so very much better.
I've glossed over a lot and omitted some more, like NLE's which work in native MPEG-2 and do not need to Transcode (for everything) to get to a DVD-Video.
Thanks for taking the time to list your workarounds. These WILL benefit others with .MOD files.
Hunt
PS the forum lost the second half of this post, so there might well be more "glossing over," than I intended. Please excuse those.

Premiere Elements 7 is astonishingly slow

I have a fairly new computer and a fairly simple task; yet things are just amazingly slow. More details:
My computer: HP HDX laptop, running Windows 7 (64-bit), bought in summer '09. For what it's worth, the system was Windows Vista when Premeire Elements was installed, but I upgrade to Windows 7 afterwards. Processor is an Intel Core2 Duo P7450 2.13 Ghz; 4 GB of memory. Video adapter is NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT. 288 GB hard drive, with 210 GB free. Virtual memory paging file is 4063 MB. When I bought the machine last summer, I got the Adobe Premiere Elements 7/Photoshop Elements 7 bundle. (As an aside, does that give me any special upgrade deal for moving to version 8?)
My task: I recorded a short video (1 min 42 sec, I think) on a Samsung digital camcorder, which produced a .MP4 file which I uploaded to my computer. (This is the first time I've ever tried this, BTW.) I wanted to snip off the last 3 or so seconds, and end up with a file I could upload to YouTube.
The problem: Importing the file and placing the clip on the sceneline was easy. But from that point forward, every video-related action was painfully slow. Placing the time cursor at a point and hitting "play" wouldn't react for about 30 seconds -- it was obviously very difficult to see exactly where I was placing the Out point handle. And then when I hit Share -> Personal Computer -> MPEG output (NTSC DVD Standard), the rendering took about an hour. The expected time remaining counter was at about 20 minutes almost the entire time, oddly enough. (Which still seems kind of long for a 1 min 39 sec video with such simple editing.)
I did make sure that as much on the computer as possible was closed -- no other applications running, most of the taskbar notifiers exited, etc.
So, is there something I'm missing? Is my computer really too slow to handle this? Is there some setting I should check?
Thanks,
Joshua

As Neale says, the problem is not the program -- it's the type of video you're editing.
Neale's solution will work -- if you're editing AVCHD.
But if you're using video from a still camera or a pocket camera (like the Flip or Webbie) you're better off converting the video to DV-AVIs before you bring them into a Premiere Elements project, per the FAQs to the right of this forum.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317?tstart=0

AV sync problems when rendering Quicktime in PE 8

I have a simple problem when rendering to Quicktime format fromPremere Elements 8: The AV sync goes out of whack.
I have tried rendering:
(a). To MPEG - output is fine.
(b). To WMV - output is fine.
(c). MOV - av sync errors
I am assembling about five clips. The first clip plays fine. The AV sync problems starts at the second clip - the audio is a good 3 seconds or so ahead of the video.
Everything is fine in the editing window.
I am running in Windows 7. To make sure it is not the player, I have played the quicktime output in Windows Media and itunes and the same problem is in both.
Has anyone seen this issue?
Thanks.

Hi Steve,
Sorry for the confusion. It a sensible suggestion to identify the input formats and output formats and I would most appreciate your inputs to this issue because I admit that I am really struggling here to get a workflow going.
Input formats:
1. MJPEG 1280x720P at 24 frames per second (from a Panasonic Lumix Camera)
2. WMV 1280x720P at 24 frames per second from output of other programs (which only support wmv output at High def output)
3. MPEG2 1280x720P at 24 frames per second (and sometimes 25 frames per second) from other sources
Target output formats are:
1. Blu-Ray
2. MP4 container format @ 1280x720P for playing on my Apple TV
3. DVD (ordinary plain PAL DVD at 720x576P at 25 frames per second)
My goal is have Pre Elements 8 Project settings in High Def and then to simply target all three outputs from one project so that I do not have to redo all of the projects with different project settings.
Workflow is in two stages:
Step 1 is to create one project for each Chapter and save to disk: The inputs are from all three input formats that I identified above (High Def - MJPEG, WMV, and MPEG2). I would like to edit, mix the audio, and then save each chapter to disk. The format in which I save this is preferably some kind of high def format that can be edited easily at a later time.
Step 2 is to create the Project that is used to assemble each chapter for final output: This is the project where I put in Chapter marks, create menus, etc. The target outputs from this chapter are Blu Ray (high def), AppleTV (high def), and PAL DVD (Standard def).
In all cases, I set up my Project Settings as HDV-AVI for internal rendering because all inputs are high def and most target outputs are high def.
Issues that I am dealing with:
1. I cannot figure out the best export format to go from Step 1 to Step 2. HDV-AVI doesn't seem to be available as an export format. Basically, I am looking for an export format that puts the least strain on resources when they are read in for Step 2 and retains the highest quality.
2. Most of my inputs are 24 frames per second but the internal rendering for Pre Elements 8 seems to be 25 frames per second. Frame rate conversion can be quite tricky and can put significant strain on resources, but it is not clear if this is straining Pre Elements 8 or not. It does seem to be. I am happy to convert my files into a format that puts the least strain on Pre Elements 8 internal rendering and yet produces the best output.
Note: If you ask - why do I do this in two steps? It is because I am always putting a strain on system resources when operating in high def. Unless I am careful, I get a message that Pre Element is "low on resources" followed by a crash shortly thereafter. I have Win7 32 bit, 4 GB RAM, no other programs running, all drivers updated with the most recent version (yes - even the NVIDIA driver) so there really isn't anything else that I can do in this area.
So I am looking for suggestions in the following areas:
1. An alternative workflow that produces the three high def outputs with the three high def inputs defined above that doesn't cause Pre Elements to continually go low on resources and crash.
OR
2. A recommendation for a high def format that puts minimal strain on Pre Element resources?
Thanks!

Error compiling movie. Disk Full.

Hello, i keep getting an error message from Adobe Encoder CS5.
- Source File: L:\Toshi_2\Front_Angle_01.mpeg
- Output File: J:\Front_Angle_01_1.MXF
- Preset Used: AVC-Intra Class50 1080
- Video: 1440x1080, 29.97 [fps], Progressive
- Audio: 48000 Hz, Stereo, 16 bit
- Bitrate:
- Encoding Time: 00:23:24
9/25/2011 6:53:13 PM : Encoding Failed
Error compiling movie.
Disk Full.
I'm trying to trancode a 11-minute HDV footage to P2 format for editing. The destination Hard drive is a NTFS file system 500gb esata drive with 300gb free. I have successfully done this many times before but this time it gives me the error message. It happens like 5 times now. I have tried to clean the Cache and set the destination to my PC's internal drive, but the result is the same.
Does anyone has the same problem and how to resolve this?

Make sure you're running the latest updates for AME - it could have been addressed in one of the patches. Beyond that, that Disk Full error can be misleading - there are times that's displayed when it's just an encoding failure. It could actually be something as misleading as an error decoding some part of the mpeg - I'd try loading the .mpeg into PPro and try playing through the entire file - check to see whether or not you get any errors down on the status bar (bottom right, a stop sign will show up) - if there's an error generating the mpeg index file or errors in the stream, that's where they'll pop up.

Burning to blue ray

If I'm burning a project to Blue ray I noticed a drop down box {and by the way I bought your book} with different presets ie H.264 1920 x 1080i or mpeg2 1920 x 1080i. Which one do I choose? I want the best Quality for my HDTV. 2nd Question. If I use the recommended process of burning to folders and combing clips for a hidef burn will that have in avi format all the quality I want to burn to blue ray.

Hey, thanks for supporting the book, Jerry!
You can choose either setting for BluRay and you should get excellent quality. Virtually all BluRay players can read either MPEG or MP4.
As for your second question, it sounds like you're asking you should output AVIs from each of your sequences and combine them into a final project for mix-down.
If so, that would work if you were working in standard DV. But you're working in hi-def -- so you want to output MPEGs. Go to Share/Output/Personal Computer and select the MPEG output, then go to Settings drop-down menu and select the HDV output option.
As long as you import these hi-def MPEGs into a project set to the HDV project settings, you should get excellent BluRay output from the mix.

Installing Premiere 6.5 on a Vista 64 Machine

I have been trying to install Premiere 6.5 on my Vista 64 Laptop. It won't even let the install begin. If I click on the setup it says "The version of this file is not compatible with the version of windows you are running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need an 32-bit or 64 bit versionof this program then contact the software publisher."
Is there a work around for this at all or am I just out of luck?
Thanks,
Mike

I have been testing this for over a week now and everything (my old software/drivers) all work. I should have said earlier that you can download a virtual copy of Windows XP to use with Virtual PC...Microsoft will give you an operating system to use (activation and all). Very generous of them considering that they could have made you buy a reduced fee copy. After install, just copy the virtual XP file and rename it (otherwise it will give you an error message and not boot). At any rate, you can run DV500 drivers, Premiere 6.5, your favorite old card programs or games or virtually (no pun intended) anything you could run in XP. You may want to adjust the screen resolution or run in full screen mode, however.
Again, the only drawback is that it is cumbersome to move the files back and forth. You can drag and drop or utilize a shared folder through your network, but you can't see the files in Windows Explorer since it is a virtual drive and not a "real" one. You could also upgrade to Premiere Pro (64bit) and Adobe has some excellent tutorial mini-videos on their site if you want to check it out. I kind of like the trial version of it, but miss the MPEG output and dislike having to learn a new way to author my DVDs using Encore. Since you can't test Encore in the trial version I am a little concerned that the learning curve will be more than I want to handle at this point. Premiere Pro is definitely worth the upgrade price though and I still may "bite the bullet" and do it when Windows 7 is released later this year.
So, to sum up here...I would say that you have a few excellent choices of options in this thread....well, that is, except for the one about copying Premiere over and it runs (check my previous post on that - lol). Good luck to you.

Premiere Elements 9 Won't Let Me Export Video. What's Wrong?

So I have been trying to edit a recent Let's Play video for my Youtube channel, but there is a huge problem. The program won't let me export my video. I tried to export it as a .mpg; but it will never finish rendering. I've tried other formats and the same thing happens. I tried making a new project file and the same thing happened. It will usually get to 1% or 47% and then the estimated time will start increasing and the video won't save any further. I've edited videos with these type of files before (.M2TS, .MP4, .WAV, & .PNG) and it has rendered just fine. Please help me because I have people who are asking for this video. My computer runs Windows 7 Professional and has 2GB of RAM.

You've got a couple of issues to be concerned with, Cwood.
First -- are you really running a Windows 7 Professional computer with 2 gig of RAM! If so, it's surprising you can even run Premiere Elements. I highly recommend you upgrade to 4 gigs of RAM at the minimum -- and, if your OS is Windows 7 64-bit, possibly 6 or 8 gigs. RAM is your computer's lungs. Without adequate RAM, your computer can barely breathe!
Also, make sure that you have adequate free space on your hard drive (I'd recommend at least 100 gigs) and that you have run Disk Cleanup and the Defragmenter so that Premiere Elements has adequate free space to use for temp and render files.
Second, editing video from recording software like Let's Play can have a number of inherent problems. What format is Let's Play recording your video as? If you open the video file in Media Info or G Spot, what frame rate, resolution and codec is displayed?
Finally, I would very much recommend AGAINST using an MPEG output for your YouTube output. MPEGs, like DV-AVIs, are interlaced videos, and they are really not going to look good at all when you post them online?
Have you tried using Premiere Elements 9's Share/Online/YouTube to output your video?

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