Hi friends,

Capturing movie in AVI for 40 mnt is already a problem to me, since AVI I/O only allow me 3 consecutive AVI file which 1 file contains 11 mnts movie, so I have to stop my VCR after 3 files, rewind for a few seconds (to avoid losing some frames) then continue the capturing for another 1 file.

I encoded those AVI files one by one with Tmpeg to VCD compliant.

Joining the first 3 files has no problem at all, but the third to the fourth is really difficult for me, because I can never know the exact frame I should set to LEAD-IN of the fourth file in Tmpeg.

I can find the exact frame within Premiere then use PANASONIC to encode, but still I like Tmpeg quality much better for non-edited movie.

Maybe there is a friend who can help me ? Thank you very much.

Sunar.

-- Sunar Karjadi (rekotomo@denpasar.wasantara.net.id), October 04, 2000

Answers

You could use virtualdub to trim the end of your 3rd file and the beginning of the 4th file. (set the Video setting to Direct Stream Copy to avoid re-rendering of AVI) Or if you really don't want to waste time and hdd space, then just use Virtualdub/premiere to find the exact frame number at the scene change. I am sure it is pretty precise to be input as LEAD IN? Never try that myself though. I only use virtualdub to trim the ends (and the commercials within :) ) Hope this solve your problem.

Rusman

-- Rusman E. Priyana (priyana@eudoramail.com), October 05, 2000.

It's surprising for you to say you can't find the frame you want to start with TMPGenc; in fact this is one of those things I like about TMPGenc. In Configure (or something...) double-click usually the first item on top which is set frame...; a window pops up with which you can preview your source AVI and set exactly the frame number to start and end with before encoding. It's in fact infinitely better and easier than stand-alone Panasonic because you see and set exactly which frame range you encoded. Easy as pie...

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), October 05, 2000.

It's surprising for you to say you can't find the frame you want to start with TMPGenc; in fact this is one of those things I like about TMPGenc. In Configure (or something...) double-click usually the first item on top which is set frame...; a window pops up with which you can preview your source AVI and set exactly the frame number to start and end with before encoding. It's in fact infinitely better and easier than stand-alone Panasonic because you see and set exactly which frame range you want encoded. Easy as pie...

-- Mehmet Tekdemir (turk690@yahoo.com), October 05, 2000.

I am surprised too. Why don't you use Virtualdub to do the capturing too? It can do whatever AVI-IO can, and it has no 3 files limit.

-- Josh (jzari55@hotmail.com), October 08, 2000.