Question about firwire capture with Premiere

[Commander XJL]

If I capture through a firewire card from DV Camera at 720x480 into Premiere and I want an MPEG2 file for DVD authoring, will Premiere save the capture to MPEG2 format ready for Spruceup? If not how does it save it and do I then need to re encode the video with TMPG to MPEG2? thanks

[gump_boy]

If you capture with premiere you will get an DV avi file. You should re-encode it with cce or tmpg, but you need to either frame server it from adobe or download mainconcept dv codec for cce/tmpg to be able to deal with file.

[Commander XJL]

say what?

[gump_boy]

1. Capturing video from DV camcorder with firewire and premiere will give you a DV avi file (7 gigs for like 30 min. of footage).

2. You can save this footage into mpeg2 with premiere but it won't look as good as if you did it with cce or tmpgenc.

3. The only way CCE and tmpgenc can understand the DV avi file is by frameserving it from premiere or using the MainConcept DV codec.

[Arky]

Actually, TMPGEnc will understand it without MainConcept's DV codec - this is precisely what got me enthusiastic about TMPGenc 2years ago! :)

However, I must admit that I AM a fan of the DV204 Main Concept DV codec, and I use it regularly.

Anyway, back to the original question:

If you need to edit your captures first in Premiere, then frameserving is probably the best option, as gump_boy recommends. To avoid this, you could just use the Ligos LSX MPEG2 plugin, as Premire will directly render MPEG2 from the timeline using this plugin. The reason Gump_boy recommended frameserving instead, though, is that, although its more hassle, the results of TMPGEnc and Cinemacraft in comparison to those of Ligos, are WELL WORTH THE EXTRA EFFORT.

If you need to know how to frameserve to these encoders, just search the Doom9 forums for a relevant post.

Arky ;o)

[Commander XJL]

where do you get the MainConcept DV codec? How do you frameserve with premiere?

[Arky]

Originally posted by Arky


If you need to know how to frameserve to these encoders, just search the Doom9 forums for a relevant post.

[auenf]

Originally posted by gump_boy
3. The only way CCE and tmpgenc can understand the DV avi file is by frameserving it from premiere or using the MainConcept DV codec.

CCESP 2.64 natively supports DV AVI

or just take the DV avi into tmpgenc instead