Speed problem in playback 2

[EBox]

Hello-
I am using Premiere 6.5, and have captured home videos in .mpg format, which play just fine in Windows Media Player. However, whenever I import them into Premiere, render them and play them, the monitor window shows the video moving too "slow"-

The sound is fine, but the video appears to only change every ;16 of a second - and when I "Export Timeline to Movie", the .avi file runs the same way.

The last time I tried to do this (a few days ago), everything was fine, but now, for some reason, the picture is moving so slow...

Any help anyone can offer is GREATLY appreciated...

Thanks,
EBox

 

[LRSmith]

If you search this forum, you'll find numerous statements that using MPG files as source files in Premiere is not a good idea.

They're a compressed format and Premiere works better with raw video (e.g., AVI). You're essentially asking it to uncompress the MPG and have everything come out normal. You've been lucky if you've done this before without problems. MPG files as inputs---that's the source of your problem.

Bottom line---keep MPGs as outputs, never as inputs.

 

[EBox]

Thanks.

I'm not sure if my video capture program exports the file to anything other than .mpg. Given that, do you have any suggestion for programs/applications that would convert the .mpg to .avi?

EBox

 

[acke187]

virtualdub

 

[LRSmith]

Check your capture card manual...I have a hard time imagining they only offer MPG as an output.

But I've been wrong before...

AVI will be better for you regardless of what program you use to convert MPG to AVI.

 

[EBox]

One final question - my program did offer AVI output, however, the quality wasn't nearly as good as the .mpg. Should this be the case?

 

[LRSmith]

Check the output settings in your program for your AVI--my guess is the resolution is set too low. See if you can increase the resolution of your AVI output, something like 720x480 at 29.997 fps.

What program are you using?

 

[EBox]

The res was at 720X480 and 29.997 fps- I am using Dazzle MovieStar5. The picture quality wasn't horrible, but you could see the little boxes which blurred the more detailed colors. I tried using all available codecs, but none of them were great.

It seemed to recompress the file while it was rendering also - not sure if that had anything to do with it...

 

[LRSmith]

Have you went to Dazzle's website and upgraded any patches/upgrades for your software? I think this is a legacy software product.

Check your video card manufacturer for updates too.

To be thorough, run windows update and see if you have latest directX drivers.

 

[EBox]

My error. You were right - it was the resolution, which I had to create a user defined AVI setting with 720X480 - all works well now! Thanks - double stars for you!