Fan DVDS with MPEG Streamclip, Premiere 1.5 & Encore 1.5...Is it possible?

Author: Starkiller_Streebo
Time: 3-Jan-2007 6:40 PM
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Hello everyone! I've been reading through these boards for several months now to try to find the answers to my questions. Although there are several highly informative topics and guides - I have yet to find one that describes the process I should follow when using the programs at my disposal.

I am running Windows XP on a PC. I've downloaded MPEG Streamclip. I have purchased copies of Adobe's Premiere 1.5 and Encore 1.5.

I would like to figure out how to make fan preservations from this series of programs. I've had a limited amount of success - but unfortunately I am not very PC savvy and have had some difficulties. However - I have a huge back log of rarities that I want to preserve for posterity and horror fans everywhere.

So I've manged to convert my DVD-R to MPEG with audio using the MPEG Streamclip. However - when I pull the MPEG clip into Premiere is when the problems start. After allowing the footage to conform to Premiere - it ends up with a few imperfections. Since these programs are at least an hour or so in length - perhaps this is part of the problem - however I have had success when working with large clips captured directly into the program before so I was hoping the size wouldn't be an issue. I can move the file into Premiere - but something bizarre happens because I end up with more video than audio - and syncing problems ensue!

It is my great hope that discovering the source of the audio dropouts would allow me to commence with editing the movie in Premiere - and then it would be a simple matter of following that process and exporting to Encore that would allow me to build my DVD's.

Any advice you have to offer would be appreciated. As I stated - I consider myself a tech newbie - so please be gentle.

Thanks.

Do or do not...there is no try...

Author: SweHanzon
Time: 4-Jan-2007 2:16 AM
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These imperfections you speak of, do they occur in the form of the video becoming blocky? That happened to me in PPro2.0.

The audio/video sync problems do happens fairly often to me. What I do is simply try do edit the audio where it goes off course, to re-sync it. It might be a better way out there though.

I don't know much about "MPEG Streamclip", but if you want to try an other program and see if the clip is in better sync, I can recommend DVD Decrypter. ADigitalMan has a wonderful guide on using it right on this board.

Author: caligulathegod
Time: 5-Jan-2007 4:10 AM
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Premiere really doesn't edit Mpeg very well. You'd be better off converting it to a format that Premiere does accept. Most of the video forums recommend avi using the huffYUV lossless codec. Check out the forums on videohelp.com, www.doom9.org, creativecow.net, wrigleyvideo.com, afterdawn.com. This is a pretty tech-savvy forum, but those forums are dedicated to video issues.