DVD to Premiere (convert to avi?)

[redfive19]

I am trying to convert camcorder footage from a DVD camcorder to premiere. I've had luck converting with AVS, VirtualDub, & DVD2AVI. what I do is...create an d2v, load up the following AVS

LoadPlugin("z:\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("G:\StorageLabs TinyUDF Volume\VIDEO_TS\rehearsal.d2v")

the load that AVS in VirtualDub and save the uncompressed AVI. Problem is, the drive space it takes up is out of control!!! I've also tried Huffy and that's a little better. What's the best way to do this? ALSO, with this way, I've not been able to keep the sound. Any clue on what I should do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

thanks ahead of time
redfive

[jggimi]

Moved to the NLE forum.

[bjorn toulouse]

How big are the files you are creating say for about an hours worth of footage?

[redfive19]

they were immense, like 40 gigs. what I ended up doing was encoding with VirtualDub to the Canopus DV codec. That keeps the hours worth of footage at about 9GB, def more manageable. I had to turn the AC3 into a wav and load that wav in virtualdub so that it's muxed into the resulting AVI. Is this the best way?
btw, huffyuv wasn't much better. i also tried picvideo, but the resulting video wouldn't show up correctly in my timeline.

-redfive

[bjorn toulouse]

That happend to me when I used VDUB to create AVIs from DV. Can the camcorder output to DV? or can it only output an mpeg2 stream?

[Zarxrax]

You could use the avs plugin to edit the avs files directly in premiere.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/videoeditorskit/

[redfive19]

it outputs a DVD-R. It's one of those newer Sony cameras. I will try that AVS input plug-in....thanks!

-redfive