Toshiba s10 anamorphic 1440x1080

[Cribbe6]

Hell.

Sorry for my first post being a question but this is driving me crazy and I'm running out of time.

I bought a cheap AVCHD camera (Toshiba s10) to record my sisters wedding. It worked great but when I got home to start editing it, all my editing software started acting strange. Adobe Premiere Elements 9 and VirtualDub display the same symptoms. Here is a link of what it looks like in Adobe Premiere Elements 9. http://bergkvist.biz/toshibas10.jpg
And here is a link to a sample of the type of clips the camera outputs.
http://www.bergkvist.biz/IMAG0043.AVI

I'm asking anyone to help med convert this clip to a format I can edit. My guess is that the anamorphic has something to do with it and that container is AVI. I use ffdshow as a playback filter so I think it might be something with the DAR or AR when opening in a editing software. The clip plays fine in WMP and VLC so I don't understand why it would show up distorted in my editing software.

[mp3dom]

1440x1080 is an anamorphic 16:9 (not square as 1920x1080). I don't know Premiere Elements, but you need to create a project at 1440x1080 with anamorphic DAR or HDV template at 1440x1080 with 1.33 PAR

[Cribbe6]

thank you for the info mp3dom but Elements does the same regardless of project settings. I also have the same problem in VirtualDub.

[mp3dom]

Remuxing from AVI to M2TS works for me, with Sony Vegas as NLE (probably with all the others NLE too).

[Cribbe6]

What software did you use to remux?
I tried VLC and remuxed to mp4 but I'm losing audio.

[mp3dom]

YAMB can demux both audio and video. Then, tsRemux for creating the M2TS. Anyway, the audio is IMA ADPCM which is quite unusual. I think it's better to convert to wave and/or import it as a separate audio track.

[Cribbe6]

I have 140 clips. I guess I have some remuxing to do :(
Ideal would be to get ffdshow to show the correct resolution so I can import straight into Premiere.

But thnx for a workaround.

[MasterNobody]

Cribbe6
If you have x264vfw installed and it is used for decoding of this AVI-s than you can try this version instead x264vfw_32_1913bm_27769_test2.exe (http://www.mediafire.com/?gbje3o1k3h3m0ye) (it must correctly decode them)

[SeeMoreDigital]

I wonder why Toshiba decided to make their camera capture audio using ADPCM format at 384 Kbps. And at 48Khz@4-bits !

[Cribbe6]

Thnx alot MasterNobody! 264vfw_32_1913bm_27769_test2.exe solved the mirrored image but it's very slow on playback in VirtualDub (That is how I test vfw filters on the file). I'm guessing about 10fps.
Is this normal?

[MasterNobody]

I'm guessing about 10fps.
Is this normal?
Depends from the system specs, but this is possible. Decoding is not main task of x264vfw (it is only there to be complete codec not only encoder) so it use single threaded decoder from ffmpeg (and this can be slow).

[Cribbe6]

OK. I will try running it on my main rig when I get home from work.

[Cribbe6]

I started Premiere to see if it would play smoother but I now get a similar problem.
Premiere (http://bergkvist.biz/adobep.jpg)
VirtualDub is fine but Premiere regardless of settings shows a black border.

[Cribbe6]

I think I will use VLC to remux to mp4 and encode audio to AAC.
I have to do it one by one but I think this gives me the fastest and simplest result.
Maybe someone know how to do this with vlc CLI?