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Video editing software + ram

beatle

beatle

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I've been using my Asus TV tuner to capture episodes of Good Eats (excellent show) and then burning them to SVCD. Adobe Premiere refuses to read the files I capture, which are 640x480, 5000 kbps CBR, layer 2 audio @ 224 kbps, 29.97 fps. Instead I use my old favorite, Tmpeg to cut out the commercials. However, it sucks up so much ram that my computer literally crawls. It monopolized 692 megs of the 768 that is in my system and ballooned my swapfile to 1.6 gigs. In addition, windows warned about low virtual memory, despite having control over it and having plenty of harddrive space for more swap. Aside from the obvious "get more ram" I'm wondering if I can do anything about the performance, running WinXP Pro.
 
Ok, Tmpeg sucks, as I'm finding out that all of my trimmed files become way out of sync. I'm guessing that part of the problem may be because I encode in CBR, but Tmpeg's options for merging and cutting only deal with VBR mpeg2.
 
Bump for the "morning" crowd. 🙂 I tried encoding the file to svcd prior to cutting it, but I still had problems with synchronization after the cut.
 
Wait, you are trying to open an MPEG2 file in premiere, or virtualdub... OK, I am no expert, but might it be you are missing the MPEG2 codec ? (or do these apps use internal routines?)
 
Well, I have the codec installed for the card to do it's job, however virtualdub and premiere may not be able to see it. Should it be somewhere? If so, where should it be copied from?
 
See if you have MPEG2 codec installed for apps other than PowerDVD / Asus proggie.

Device manager/ sound & video controllers / video codecs

(edit) this does seem to be the problem: from afterdawn moderator "[..] Premiere will import them as long as you have an mpeg2 codec loaded. "
 
It doesn't look like there are any installed, even those that came in that link don't appear to be installed. I haven't rebooted yet, as I'm giving tmpeg another shot with another file... gimme another hour and a half to reboot. 🙂
 
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