Hi,

Sorry if my question is not relevant to this forum. I just captured an MPEG video & audio clip with high bitrate. Then I put it through the timeline of Adobe Premiere 5.5 for editing. First time around, the video and audio clips were there and synchronized. After I save the project (the .ppj file) and re-open again, the audio clip portion is missing leaving the video clip alone. What went wrong? If someone has entered the same problem, would you be so kind to explain it to me.

In addition, is there any TMpeg Encoder plug-in for Adobe Premiere? How to get the on-line help for Adobe Premiere? Thanks a lot, especially for Eric, Ross McL, Tygrus, Doug, EMartinez and many others for the good advice in this forum.

-- Beni K. (b_kartono@hotmail.com), September 21, 2000

Answers

Maybe you didn't lock the video with its associated audio that's why the latter wasn't saved. Another is that MPEG is meant to be an AV distribution format, and for a host of reasons is generally flakey when used for editing. Although there are editors out there with their own limited capabilities for directly working with MPEG-1/2 streams, Premiere isn't one of them. You are best served by capturing in AVI using a codec of your choice (depending on your situation) and rendering/exporting to MPEG. In Premiere this can be done with the Panasonic MPEG-1 plug-in (2.51 latest version), oe the Ligos LSX (caters to MPEG-1/2) plug-in for Premiere.

-- Mehmet T (turk690@yahoo.com), September 21, 2000.

I've had the same problem with Premiere 5.0 Beni. My hardware...

Athlon 500Mhz processor with 128Mb of SDRAM, Windows 98, ATI AIW 128 32Mb AGP capture card Sound Blaster Live! Sound card

I ended up capturing the video again to AVI format using the ATI VCR 2.0 codec, recompressing with a different codec(Cinepac), bringing the video into Premiere and editing, rendering the project as an AVI again using the same Cinepac codec, then using the Panasonic MPEG1 Encoder to compress to MPEG. Overall, this produces a better quality video. A time consuming process though! Premiere WILL NOT accept the ATI VCR 2.0 codec. That's why I had to recompress after the original capture. Hope I've helped....

-- Robert Snider (rsnider1@san.rr.com), September 27, 2000.

i need Panasonic premiere plug-in v2.51

do ya know where i can find it?

thank you...

-- Owen (realalim@hotmail.com), August 22, 2001.