Problems with TMPGEnc in regards of DV video

[funkydude74]

Hi all. I'm trying to convert old kinescope TV show clips to have the video look using Dynapel's Motion Perfect however the program can't handle more than say a few hundred megabytes of video data. So I have to convert the recordings to DV AVI in order for it to do the job which works better.

However after converting the DV files from 25 frames/sec to 50 frames/sec, when using the AVISynth 2.5.6 script in TMPGEnc 2.5 to interlace the DV videos down to 25 frames/sec and combine the video files and convert them to MPEG I get this message "AVISource: couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc dvsd". Yet I can open the files directly, just doesn't accept them when opening the script for some weird reason.

So I was wondering if anyone here can help me fix this problem please? Do I need to download codecs for TMPGEnc? Do I need to download plugins for AVISynth? Below is the script for the files I'm doing:

clip1=avisource("j1.avi")
clip2=avisource("j2.avi")
clip3=avisource("j3.avi")

clip1+clip2+clip3

separatefields().selectevery(4,1,2).weave()
converttorgb24()


If anyone can help I'd most appreciate it.

Cheers
Troy

[funkydude74]

Don't worry now guys, just found the solution to the problem. I've downloaded the Panasonic DV codec and everthing works now no worries.

Cheers
Troy

[Guest]

I recommend the Cedocido DV codec over the Panasonic one.

[Mug Funky]

hehe... and i recommend either mvtools or Motion to handle the upconversion to 50p

avisynth is your friend :) no intermediate files, just load the script straight into TMPG and it'll process your source files on the fly.

it's also a fair bit faster and better quality than motionperfect from what i've seen.