adventures in converting video

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I've got slightly less than two weeks to make this program work or shell out a hundred bucks for a pay one. CONS ARE STRESSFUL. If I seriously have to not send in my vids because I can't wrangle them into the right format, I will cry and cry and SULK.

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[giandujakiss]

What format are your vids in now?

[some_stars]

AVI, trying to get them into mp2. I sent a request to vvctech about LlamaEnc not working for me just a few hours ago, so I'm only frustrating myself by messing about before they get back to me. But I can't help it! I want to get it done! *facepalm* At least I've confirmed that there is no suitable avi-to-mp2 free converter anywhere on the internet.

[giandujakiss]

Wait - you mean m2v, right?

You may be able to create the proper format by screwing around with MPEG streamclip and/or your editing program, but if you want to send it to me, I'll see if I can create the files for you.

[some_stars]

right, right, m2v. MPEG-2 with separate audio. It's all very new to me. And thank you! If I can't get this fixed by the time I have to leave for nyc, I may well take you up on that.

[giandujakiss]

M2v is just a standard MPEG with the audio stripped out. When you export the file from your editing program to begin with, it may be an option (you'd chose to export as an Mpeg, or a mpeg dvd or something, and then choose "no multiplexing." Alternatively, make the file an Mpeg from your editing software, open the mpeg in MPEG streamclip, and choose "demux" which will give you an m2v file and an aiff file.

[some_stars]

If Premiere has a way to export as an mpeg, I haven't found it, alas. (Which doesn't mean it's not there; it took me a year to sort out how to properly export AVI files.) Once I finish finals on Monday I will be devoting myself exclusively to this problem and hopefully can wrangle something.

[giandujakiss]

It absolutely does - how do you think I make them?

Go to export and choose "Adobe Media Encoder." Select MPEG-2 DVD. Then choose your bit rates according to whatever VVC's latest instructions are - something like 5, 5.5, and 6, or something. (VVC describes them in terms of 5000, 5500 - in Adobe, it's just 5, 5.5, etc). Choose none for multiplexing. Etc.

[some_stars]

Ooooh. I feel stupid, yet enlightened! :D Thanks.

[giandujakiss]

Click deinterlace, too - it's on the upper left corner of the dialog box, above the image of the actual vid.

[some_stars]

ahahahha, now I can't open Premiere. FOR NO REASON. SUDDENLY. I think tonight is not the night for me to work on this /o\

[giandujakiss]

You really are cursed :-).

What happens when you try to open it? I ask because once, somehow, mysteriously, one of the drivers that Premiere needed somehow disappeared off my system - I had to download it from elsewhere. And the only way I knew it was that driver was because sometimes when I tried to open Premiere, a dialog box flashed and told me the driver was missing. Other times, the dialog box flashed by too quickly for me to read.

[some_stars]

It starts to open, says it's loading various compilers, then just disappears. I think I will go investigate the website and see if there's anything to re-download.