Question about getting MPEG2 into Premier

[bluespot]

A friend of mine asked me how he could get video off of a DVD and into Premier w/sound, and I couldn't give him an answer. I thought about it for a while, and I can't figure it out!

Every movie that I work with, I keep the audio seperate from the video until it's time to author. I don't think that Premier even accepts MPEG2 video, so I was thinking maybe frameserve an avi from a DVD2AVI project, but that wouldn't have any sound! And I don't think that Premier accepts AC3? And what about interlaced material...does premier accept .avs scripts...probably not, so you'd have to use TMPEG to deinterlace, then framserve that output into Premier? But still there'd be no sound :(

Can anyone think of a good way to get MPEG2 video with it's accompanying sound into Premier???

Thanks all,

bluespot

[mikecito]

I would do this:

1) demux the ac3 to seperate wav files using besweet
2) open the vobs in dvd2avi and create a project for avisynth
3) frame serve to premiere using avisynth and mpeg2dec.dll
4) add the six wave files as seperate audio tracks
5) make all the changes you want in premiere
5) re-encode the ac3 with soft encode
6) use the cce plugin to encode video
7) multiplex in scenarist or other dvd creator and burn

If you have any questions, visit my website www.mikecito.com and see the video editing section. It can be tricky, but you can ask me any questions you want and I'll try to help. I'm trying to get a step by step with screenshots to help out in the next couple weeks. I'm short on time now.

Mike

[mikecito]

and P.S. --- Premiere does accept avs scripts after installing the premiere plugins for avisynth.

[bluespot]

thanks for the advice mikecito!

It looks like that should get the job done nicely