Dougmeister
Programmer
Was told I needed to create a "Project" with the properties of the MPEG I'm trying to edit. I set up my ATI AIW 128 Pro to capture following the steps at:
So I just "open" the file (no project) in Premiere and right-click for "Properties" and see:
File Path: F:\alcatraz.mpg
File Size: 599.46MB bytes
Total Duration: 1:00:02:21
Average Data Rate: 170.21KB per second
Image Size: 352 x 240
Pixel Depth: 0 bits
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Audio: 44100 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
So I close the file, then do:
1) "File", "New Project"
2) "Custom"
3) General settings:
- Editing Mode: Video for Windows
- Timebase: 29.97
- Time Display: 30 fps Non drop-frame Timecode
4) Video settings:
- Compressor: Cinepak Codec by Radius
- Frame Size: 320 x 240, "4:3 Aspect" is checked
I change this to "352 x 240", and uncheck "4:3 Aspect"
- Frame Rate: 29.97
- Pixel aspect ratio: Square pixels (1.0) (default)
- Quality: 100% (default)
- Data Rate: Limit data to 1000K/sec (left unchecked)
- Recompress (left unchecked)
(I *think* this may be where the problem is. Other "Compressor" video codecs on my system are:
DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion
DivX MPEG-4 Low-Motion
DivX Codec 4.0 Beta
HuffyUV v2.1.1
Indeo (R) video 5.10
Intel I.263 Video Driver 2.55.016
Intel Indeo (R) Video R3.2
Intel Indeo (R) Video Raw R1.2
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
PicVideo Lossless JPEG Codec
PicVideo MJPEG Codec
PicVideo Wavelet 2000 Codec
and for any one of them, I can "Configure", to further confuse things)
5) Audio Settings
Rate: 22050 Hz
Format: 16-bit stereo
Compressor: Uncompressed *
Interleave: 1 Second
Processing Options:
Enhance Rate Conversion: Best
(rest left at defaults)
* Again, I think this is a problem, since the audio is obviously compressed since it's an MPEG file. Other "Compressors" listed are:
Voxware (2 of these), Mobile Voice, DSP Group TrueSpeech, GSM 6.10, CCITT (2 of these), Microsoft ADPCM, and IMA ADPCM.
6) Keyframe and Rendering
(left all at default settings)
7) Capture
(left all at default settings)
Right-click in Bin, import the file, drag to timeline, and "Video 1A" shows up as a green bar; up above I see narrow yellow and red bars. My buddy loaded the same clip up on his computer (but he has some special hardware), and the MPEG showed up as a "film strip" in the timeline.
Sorry for the long post, but I really want to get this figured out finally. It's been a while now.
So I just "open" the file (no project) in Premiere and right-click for "Properties" and see:
File Path: F:\alcatraz.mpg
File Size: 599.46MB bytes
Total Duration: 1:00:02:21
Average Data Rate: 170.21KB per second
Image Size: 352 x 240
Pixel Depth: 0 bits
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Audio: 44100 Hz - 16 bit - Stereo
So I close the file, then do:
1) "File", "New Project"
2) "Custom"
3) General settings:
- Editing Mode: Video for Windows
- Timebase: 29.97
- Time Display: 30 fps Non drop-frame Timecode
4) Video settings:
- Compressor: Cinepak Codec by Radius
- Frame Size: 320 x 240, "4:3 Aspect" is checked
I change this to "352 x 240", and uncheck "4:3 Aspect"
- Frame Rate: 29.97
- Pixel aspect ratio: Square pixels (1.0) (default)
- Quality: 100% (default)
- Data Rate: Limit data to 1000K/sec (left unchecked)
- Recompress (left unchecked)
(I *think* this may be where the problem is. Other "Compressor" video codecs on my system are:
DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion
DivX MPEG-4 Low-Motion
DivX Codec 4.0 Beta
HuffyUV v2.1.1
Indeo (R) video 5.10
Intel I.263 Video Driver 2.55.016
Intel Indeo (R) Video R3.2
Intel Indeo (R) Video Raw R1.2
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
PicVideo Lossless JPEG Codec
PicVideo MJPEG Codec
PicVideo Wavelet 2000 Codec
and for any one of them, I can "Configure", to further confuse things)
5) Audio Settings
Rate: 22050 Hz
Format: 16-bit stereo
Compressor: Uncompressed *
Interleave: 1 Second
Processing Options:
Enhance Rate Conversion: Best
(rest left at defaults)
* Again, I think this is a problem, since the audio is obviously compressed since it's an MPEG file. Other "Compressors" listed are:
Voxware (2 of these), Mobile Voice, DSP Group TrueSpeech, GSM 6.10, CCITT (2 of these), Microsoft ADPCM, and IMA ADPCM.
6) Keyframe and Rendering
(left all at default settings)
7) Capture
(left all at default settings)
Right-click in Bin, import the file, drag to timeline, and "Video 1A" shows up as a green bar; up above I see narrow yellow and red bars. My buddy loaded the same clip up on his computer (but he has some special hardware), and the MPEG showed up as a "film strip" in the timeline.
Sorry for the long post, but I really want to get this figured out finally. It's been a while now.