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Post-Render Video Issues (this is the second time of asking)
I asked this once before, but made the mistake of doing it over a weekend where it got lost in the traffic (I assume), and I got no responses. I’m doing it once more in the hope that I can get assistance from my favourite moos. (*plus I added an exciting new question at the end)
I rendered out a video in MPEG-2 DVD (NTSC). So far so good.
I accidentally deleted all the files. I also don’t have access to the original footage anymore. Which wouldn’t be a problem but I want to export the MPEG onto tape… into another composition… into anything!
For some reason whenever I put the file into Premiere to output it, or into AE to render it as a different format, it always comes out wrong. And by wrong I mean jerky… but worse. It just holds stills of itself instead of being the freeflowing video I so loved. It’s almost like a slideshow with music.Why does it play ok itself but won’t output properly? Any workarounds? The best thing I can think of so far is to play it on an LCD screen and point a camera at the screen. Please tell me that’s not the only solution.
Or tell me that’s the only solution; anything just to hear a friendly voice.
Perhaps I should put something more interesting in here:
(*)What do you think about the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie that’s coming out soon? From the trailers I’ve seen it looks like it’s not going to be doing the books/radio show/tv show justice.– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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3 Replies
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Hi,
I had similar problems with mpeg 2 a while back and had some success with Moonlight-Elcard mpeg2 Video decoder. It didn’t exactly look perfect, but it was acceptable for what I was trying to accomplish.
Unfortunatley this one is for PCs only.https://www.elecard.com/download/
Good Luck
Dave
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MPEG2 is a temporal compression format that is not ideal for video editing – hence the “jerky” results you’re seeing. There are plenty of video utilities that will convert MPEG2 to Quicktime or similar formats for editing. Quicktime Pro (it costs about 39 bucks and is well worth it) is one example, though I’m sure there are freeware tools if you feel like searching. Virtual Dub is a PC freeware tool that I know of, but there are bound to be plenty more around.
Ideally, you should convert your MPEG2 file to an uncompressed format (like Quicktime Animation 100% or a None-compressed AVI) to avoid re-compressing your pictures until the final output stage.
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Thanks Dave and Andrew, I’ll give those things a try.
I know MPEG2 isn’t the best for editing. I wasn’t planning to use it at all. It’s just that I lost the source footage so I had nothing left but that stupid little mpeg.– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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