AIW Radeon owners: How do you archive your videos?

[GL]

I just captured a whole army-training video that's 2 hours in MPEG-2, IBP, 480x480, 100% motion compensated video with 0% frame loss. It's beautiful...but it's also 7GB. How the heck do I convert this over to another format? I've tried using flaskmpeg and mpeg2avi and while flaskmpeg chokes on the input, mpeg2avi is able to at least convert the video. The audio is a totally different matter. It seems that even when recording in MPEG-2 video mode, ATI decides to record the audio in MPEG-1. So you have this half-breed MPEG1/2 format that throws off all the available converters. Does anyone know how I could 1) Convert straight from the ATI MPEG2 format to divx or 2) extract the audio from the ATI MPEG2 file to something meaningful such as a wav file?

Thanks in advance.

-GL

 

[NicColt]

flaskmpeg was horrible for me, it was wipping out 2 and 3 gig files instantly, never to be seen again.

The cheap way, if you record the vid to MPEG-1 then virtualbud can recompress it to DivX for example but MPEG-2 is a little bit more complicated you need an MPEG-2 editor.

Ulead Studio that came with the ATI is an MPEG-2 editor and you can somehow "re-render" it. But again it's a very confusing and frustrating program...... ah in my opinion of course.

Some (like RBV5) say that Adobe premiere can import MPEG-2 however according to the Premiere site it doesn't support (or supposed to support) MPEG-2. Do a search for post's by rbv5 and you'll see.

If you want the cheese of vid editing, I'm using Vegas Video 🙂

I have rendered a 2.4 gig clip (any clip) wether it be MPEG1 AVI MPEG2 into RM, QT, DIVX or WMV. I find that WMV is the best, it gives divx a run. So from 2.4 gigs to 660Megs, just nicely fits on a CD 🙂