Where'd my MPEG-2 go?

I recently updated to Tiger and had some issues that required me to re-install FCP 4. I then went to the apple site and upgraded to 4.5 which is what I had been using.
Now, when I try to export I no longer have a MPEG-2 option. I tried exporting using MPEG-4 but DVD SP won't recognize it.
I read a posting that I should use Compressor instead of QT conversion. I tried that but compessor won't open. I tried re-installing compressor but still no luck.
I think ths is all because I have QT 7.0. Does anyone know how I can go back to QT 6? I tried to install a QT 6.3 download I found but when I tried it said that a newer version of QT already exists on my computer. But where? I've trashed everything I can find with QT and still no luck.
Any thoughts??
Thanks.
jamie
G5 Dual 2 GHz PowerPC Mac OS X (10.4.6) FCP 4.5, DVD SP 3.0.2

Just what you don't want to hear: I'd be adverse to running FCP 4.x on anything but 10.3.8 or .9... BUT you'd probably fix yourself all up by setting up a startup disk for this, and you could still run Tiger if you want on another. I'm not sure that Tiger runs QT 6 very well at all either. (but have to say I've never tried it).
I've written an article about all of this here: http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/newpage_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=http://www.creativecow.net/magazine/cowmagsubscribe.html
You can download it as a PDF and read away after you register with the COW.
You might try exporting a non self contained QT movie and opening that in DVD SP... it can encode from within the app. settings for it are set in the Encoding preferences.
Jerry

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Subsequent research has stopped me confusing the .mp2 with the MPEG-2 video format, I found that it's MPEG-1 Audio Layer II audio, but I cannot find a suitable codec for it.
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When I first load up the movie, QuickTime reports that some required components are missing and offers me a web page of suppliers who don't make the MPEG-1 Audio Layer II codec (as far as I can see). So, does anybody know where I can get a suitable audio codec?

Anyway, I did at least RTFM before I posted here and installed the codec (and I searched the forum before posting, too!).On my system (old PPC G5), the "3ivX D4 4.5.1 for OSX" (which I see you have) and the "XVIDDelegate" (which I don't see) caused a conflict between AVI oriented media and which component would assume playback control. Since you have at least 5 or 6 components that have, at least some, AVI playback capability, would suggest you run a conflict test at this point.
I thought DivX was a video codec only?It is basically a proprietary update of AVI put out by DivX. Their proprietary compression format(s) now have the .divx extension, but the software still handles media contained in the older AVI container.

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I'm wanting to train-up on iMovie HD 6 editing ahead of a documentary project I've been asked to produce for an Australian environmental education foundation in a couple of weeks.
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But I found there was no tutorial footage, clips or clip sequences to work with for training. I've sinced searched the internet for such material but was surprised to find nothing. Meanwhile I'm playing with stills.
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Hello Graham:
Welcome to discussions!
Go to this page:
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Scroll down a bit and you'll find the tutorials here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/
Or get the iMovie tutorials in pdf form at:
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieHDGettingStarted.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson1.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson2.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson3.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson4.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson5.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson6.pdf
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iMovieLesson7.pdf
Good luck with your project and come back anytime you need a bit of assistance!
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How can i import mpeg files into iMovie?

how can i import mpeg files into iMovie?

Where are your MPEG stored?
I have hundreds of old MPEGs stored in my nexternal drive, but unfortunatly i was not able import them into iMovie. I did the following trick: I created a new set of a folder and subfolder and called it "Virtual_CAM/DCIM" and saved it on my desktop. Then went to Disk Utilities>File Menue>New>Disk Image from Folder. Then selected the folder on my desktop and clicked enter. I moved the .dmg file to my external (or just keep it on your desktop). I clicked on the .dmg file. It shoud be visible on the Finder. Open your Imovie and import as you do from your camera.

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How can I play an mpeg-2 file from my handycam on quicktime?

When I try to play an mpeg-2 file from my handycam I receive an error message stating that a required codec is not available. How can I get this codec and is it a free download? Neither audio or video will play.

Thanks for your input. To clarify a couple of things, I'm ultimately looking at editing my video from the handycam, hopefully with imovie. In exploring how to do this I came across mpeg streamclip video converter for osx but then discovered that in order to install it with Lion, I'd need to download a mpeg-2 playback component. From what I understand, this component is inherent in QT 10.1 with Lion and therefor you can't brink up a 'disk image' in order to install the video converter. Sounds like I'd need to buy that.
As previously mentioned, there are three forms of QT support for MPEG-2 content:
1) The QT MPEG-2 Playback Component ($19.99) is required for use by QT 7 based applications (QT 7 Player, GarageBand, as well as, QT 7 based third-party applications like MPEG Streamclips. This component is not used required for nor used by the QT 10.1 Player or iMovie '07/'08/'11 apps.
2) The Importer Component installed as part of your video editing software package. As previously indicated, this package handles the importation of content from various camcorders employing many different compression formats. It's primary purpose is to make the imported content "edit" compatible with the video editing software. In the case of "muxed" GOP MPEG-2/AC3 content, it decompresses/turns the P- and B-frames into I-frames which essentially makes the video QT editit compatible at the frame level without actually converting the video to a different compression format. This is a moderately fast operation which does not degrade the video quality. In addition, the importer component also converts the AC3 audio to QT "edit" compatible AIFF (Linear PCM) content and places both the video and audio content in an MOV file container. Since "muxed" GOP MPEG-2 content essentially synchronizes the audio and video content spatially, the last step in the import process is to add a time offset to minimize audio/video drift in the MOV file which synchronizes the multiple data tracks temporally with respect to an external timing reference. The result of this operation is QT edit compatible content in an MOV file container that is playback on any system having iMovie '07/'08/'11 installed. That is why I always recommend using this work flow for content still located on the camcorder.
3) The QT 10.1 MPEG-2/AC3 GOP support appears to be built into the app or only accessible using the app and not available for use by either QT 7 or iMovie applications. This content is not QT edit compatible at the frame level (i.e., the manner in which all Apple video editors work).
4) In the case where the "muxed" MPEG-2/AC3 content has already been removed from the camcoder and you can no longer "import" the content as per option 2 above, purchase of the QT MPEG-2 Playback component and use of the MPEG Streamclip app provides, in my opinion, the greatest degree of secondary functionality. In this case you have the option of demultiplexing the original content to M2V and AC3 content or paired M2V and AIFF elementary stream files or conversion of the content to any QT editit compatible audio and video compression combination including "Pro" editing codecs if FCP is installed on your system.
5) With regard to the installation of the QT MPEG-2 Playback component, you have three options:
a) You can install the component on a pre-Lion system and then copy it to your Lion system.
b) You can download the MPEG Streamclip "beta" package and us the "helper" software to install the component directly on the Lion operating system.
c) You can us an app like Pacifist to extract/install the component directly to the Lion OS platform.
In any event, remember that this component is not supported by the QT 10.1 app nor is AC3 natively supported by the QT 7 app and so you will have to use the MPEG Streamclip app to both make use of this component and provide app support of the AC3 audio which can then be "bridged" for use by QT 7 based apps.
All this being said, when I decided for the first time to just open my video in QT 10.1 (which is a .mpg file) it wouldn't open and the error said that a required codec wasn't available. The file is .mpg and info states it is a mpeg-2 video, AC3. I have VLC installed and can view the video with that, but am just frustrated as to why QT 10.1 won't play it (as I believe it should, since the file is a .mpg).
As I have repeatedly stated, I consider QT 10.1 "a work in progress" and have given up trying to guess why it works in some cases and not in others. In some cases, files sent to me having the problem you describe suddenly became playable in QT 10.1 after using VLC to copy the data from the original file container to a new program stream file container (i.e., not conversion was applied—just the copy of the original data). You can try this for playback purposes but it will do nothing for your editing work flow unless you plan to us QT 10.1 to convert the content to H.264/AAC for editing in which case HandBrake or MPEG Streamclip (with QT MPEG-2 Playback component) would probabaly work on the original file. (I.e., I prefer using a low-compression, high data rate compression format at highest video quality setting as an "intermediate" editing format to preserve as much of the original quality as possible.)
One thing I also noticed, there is no QT file in my library (I didn't move, delete or change anything, just looked to see if I could find the file as mentioned on another forum, but it wasn't there). Not sure if this has a connection as to whether the .mpg file can be played with QT 10.1 or not.
If you are referring to an MOV file created by importing the content directly from the camcorder, then it will be located in your iMovie "Event" folder, the location of which will depend on which drive you assigned it to. Such a file sould already be both playback and editable in QT applications.
Any other input would be much appreciated. Am I missing something from my QT 10.1 that should have been installed?
I believe that covers just about everything. Since QT 10.1 is the original version installed by the Lion OS installer, there have not been any updates to it and, unless you have been messing around deleting things in your QT component folders, there is little probability that anything has been deleted, removed, or misplaced during normal system use. What I normally recommed is that you keep QT 10.1 installed and install the Lion compatible version of QT 7 (v7.6.6 if not already installed) to maximize your QT playback capabilities between the two. In fact, I tend to use the QT 7 "Pro" player for most daily "quickie" edits and still consider it the more useful of the two utility-Players.

VOB's and DV-AVI in Premiere Pro

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http://www.mathesonbayley.com/article_vobs_to_dv_avi.php
He writes:
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On the forums, I've read this in the Elements FAQ
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/415317
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"A good rule of thumb is that, whenever possible, you should use DV-AVIs as your video source."
And there's this thread titled "Getting your files into DV-AVI format"
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/473041
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Howard

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I remember years ago I had this same issue, and I kept ending up with exported video that looked like it came from a SLP VHS recording. Whenever I need to go from (especially consumer) MPEG format (i.e. MicroMV, miniDVD) to a file, I always drop the video to analog (S-Video or Component, but I've also brought it in via composite for my resume reel when I'm including video from DVD's that I've recorded off the air of productions that I've done at the local cable company where I volunteer, since I record those off of analog cable and I find I get a cleaner picture when I drop the image back down to composite), and it is the only way that I can get a high quality video transfer, otherwise the I get a recompressed pile of garbage. You have to remember that with DV you have a constant bit rate of 25 Mbps, whereas with DVD MPEG/VOB your bit rate is usually averages around 5.0 Mbps, 1/5 of DV's bit rate. By dropping to analog you are removing that MPEG codec and are capturing an uncompressed image.

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No this is just a miniDV project - Corporate website thing.
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I'm fairly sure that other systems can't read these. (They are what I use when I'm making DVDs myself, however).
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If you want to back up everything to an external drive, copy the entire iTunes folder.
Or you can use any backup program to do the same.
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Dolby Digital 5.1

Hi,
I have movie clips that were shot with a Sony HD handycam in Dolby 5.1 audio. Will I be able with Adobe Element 10 to output this to a blu-ray in Dolby Digital 5.1 audio?
Thanks.

Airborne,
The output was the part of the question, that I needed clarification on too. I knew that through PrE 9, the output would be a 2-channel (stereo) mixdown, and Steve verified that PrE 10 was no different, regarding the output (Export/Share). However, as it has been for a few versions, PrE can easily Import DD 5.1 SS for editing. It is the Encoding to DD 5.1 SS, that is the limitation.
Now, there are ways around that, but then one must leave PrE to do the final output, and to work effective with DD 5.1 SS, that would be pretty early in the editing process. Minnetonka Audio offers a stand-alone DD 5.1 SS Encoder, to get the Audio Stream in DD 5.1 SS AC3.
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Offering DD 5.1 SS in-camera is more of a marketing tool, IMHO, and most users of such cameras actually fight the 5.1 SS, giving up on it, after just a bit.
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einige von Euch vermissen vielleicht die Möglichkeit, wie bis Premiere 6.x möglich, mit Fast Forward gecapturte Clips in Premiere zu bearbeiten. Die Fast Forware Software hat m.M. nach gegenüber Premiere PRO Vorteile:
Es werden die Zeitstempel mit angezeigt, Sortierung und Trimmen geht wesentlich einfacher und bei anpassen des IN/OUT-Points wird nur das effektiv genutze Material auf der Platte gelassen. Der mit FF gescannte Bandinhalt ist übersichtlicher und kann so auch archiviert werden (ok, ich weiss, dass das auch PP kann).
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2. Trimmen und Sortieren der Clips.
3. Clipsliste in Zwischenablage kopieren und in einem Editor eilesen. Damit erhält man eine Liste der benutzen Mediadateien.
4. Diese Dateien mit DVConverter http://www.ulead.com/download/dvconverter/download.htm von Type 1 nach Type 2 konvertieren.
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Das mag zwar alles etwas umständlich erscheinen, für mich überwiegen aber die Vorteile von FF. Für diejenigen, die ebenso denken soll dies als Info dienen.
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I remember years ago I had this same issue, and I kept ending up with exported video that looked like it came from a SLP VHS recording. Whenever I need to go from (especially consumer) MPEG format (i.e. MicroMV, miniDVD) to a file, I always drop the video to analog (S-Video or Component, but I've also brought it in via composite for my resume reel when I'm including video from DVD's that I've recorded off the air of productions that I've done at the local cable company where I volunteer, since I record those off of analog cable and I find I get a cleaner picture when I drop the image back down to composite), and it is the only way that I can get a high quality video transfer, otherwise the I get a recompressed pile of garbage. You have to remember that with DV you have a constant bit rate of 25 Mbps, whereas with DVD MPEG/VOB your bit rate is usually averages around 5.0 Mbps, 1/5 of DV's bit rate. By dropping to analog you are removing that MPEG codec and are capturing an uncompressed image.

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Jim,
I'm not sure why you are having troubles with your converted to DV-AVI files. I get handed MPEG-2 material in several delivery schemes, and just do the conversion with DigitalMedia Converter, before I Import into PrPro. I seldom have any issues with these. The only issue is that with a very few, PrPro does not see the proper Duration. I have found that with these, I just open them in PrElements (they always show correct Duration), and then just do an Export as DV-AVI Type II (same exact format/CODEC and settings as what I Imported), and these "processed" files work 100% in PrPro. I've never been able to find any difference between the DMC converted DV-AVI's, and those run through PrE, but there has to be something different.
As for the quality, you have to remember that the source footage was first compressed to MPEG-2, and to get it onto DVD, you'll be recompressing it again. Now, for light editing, there are NLE programs that do "smart rendering," where the Exported MPEG-2 will NOT be re-compressed, except for the exact areas that were changed. PrPro does not have smart rendering.
Exporting to DV-AVI Type II, and Importing those into Encore, will give you quality as good as it will get. You CAN Export as MPEG-2 (DVD-compliant) from PrPro and can adjust your bit-rate (controls quality), but you are likely to not do better than Encore will on Automatic.
Working from perviously compressed material will never yield results as good as going back to the original camera footage. Those compressions/re-compressions destroy quality.
Good luck,
Hunt
PS - globally replacing Assets in PrPro is not really possible. Unless CS4.2 (coming soon) has a new feature in the Project Panel, I only know of one way - Offline Media, the Link Media. As there are no Actions, or Scripting in PrPro, like in Photoshop, it's a manual, and often tedious process.

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You should see a difference when you switch formats. Try shooting at the highest quality setting, MXP and see the results.
It looks from the specs published on the Canon web site that you have a frame rate choice of 60i, recorded at 60i; 24p recorded at 24p; 24p recorded at 60i, or 30p recorded at 60i.
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