AVI Clips shortened

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AVI Clips shortened

Posted by Rory Flynn on June 28, 2010 at 1:12 pm

Hi,

I captured a load of VHS Tapes that I wish to edit and then put on a DVD. I did the capturing in Ulead studios because the lead I had is not supported by premiere. I have now got all these videos on my hard drive and I imported them into my Premiere project, but for some reason they have been shortened down. They are not showing up in the full length they were captured in. For example: one clip is 25 mins long, but in premiere it is only 1 min 23secs long.

Anyone had this problem before? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

I am using Premiere Pro CS4 and the video clips are AVIs and are PAL 720×576 25 fps
The compression used was YUY2 and sound compression was PCM. But I have also tried RGB 24.

Thanks

Rory Flynn replied 15 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 8 Replies
8 Replies

Alex Udell
June 28, 2010 at 1:46 pm

Rory…

My best guess is to convert the video to a more standardized codec.
Just because something is recognized by the OS, doesn’t mean PPro will necessarily interpret it correctly.

So something that would perhaps batch convert clips to Microsoft DV codec would likely be a good choice based on the start point of your source material from VHS.

Try it with one. If that works convert them all.

Alex
Rory Flynn
June 28, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply. I did try that, but the only software I have for converting video is adobe media encoder and I have the same problem with that. Must be an adobe thing. It only recognises parts of the video.

As far as i can see my only other option is to capture it in another format. These are my options:

AVI
MPEG
VCD
SVCD
DVD
WMV

I have tried mpeg, but that was shocking quality. Any Ideas?

Cheers

Rory
Alex Udell
June 28, 2010 at 2:23 pm

Select AVI

then see what Codec options it gives you.

DV should be in that somewhere.

Alex
Rory Flynn
June 28, 2010 at 2:40 pm

Hi Alex,

When I choose AVI I get to compression options. YUY2 and RGB 24. I then get some recompression options. These are as follows:

No recompression
Main Concept (Adobe2) H.264/AVC Video
Main Concept (Adobe2) MPEG Video Encoder
MJPEG Compressor
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Intel Indeo(R) Video 4.5
Intel IYUV codec
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec

Any good Ideas here?

Cheers
Alex Udell
June 28, 2010 at 3:25 pm

hmmm….they sure aren’t making this easy.

I’m a bit stumped…

Any chance of trying to find a 3rd party app to convert your captured fiels instead of relying on that app?

Alex
Rory Flynn
June 28, 2010 at 7:58 pm

I know. It’s a rubbish piece of software. I tried importing the files into avid media composer 5 and it wouldn’t have it either. Avid had the full length of the video, but instead of the image it just plays a white screen. the audio plays no problem.

Any suggestions on a third party encoder?

Any suggestions on a different way to capture the videos?

I am currently using a Samsung VCR and an EasyCap SCART to USB cable. Unfortunately Premier doesn’t support this and as far as I can see neither does Avid. So my options are running out here I think.

Cheers

Rory
Phocas Kroon
June 28, 2010 at 8:48 pm

If you have a DV camera with an analog input you can connect the VCR to this input, switch the camera to DV out, play the VCR and capture via firewire from the camera.

Good luck

Phocas Kroon
Rory Flynn
June 29, 2010 at 8:28 am

Hi Phocas,

Thanks for the reply. Ye I have got an old dv camcorder. Will give that a go.

Cheers

Rory

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