Where did HUGE output file come from?

[lombard33]

If you want to put this thing on DVD use mpeg2.

Heinz, using mpeg2 or mpeg2-dvd seems to cause a new wrinkle. The project is saved three times, under three unique file extensions, none of which seems to be importable into DVDWS: .xmp, .m2v, and m2v.xmpses.

The error message reads: "file format mismatch", unable to open.

?????

Cheers,

Carole

[Ken Berry]

For what it is worth -- given that so much time has passed since the last posting on this thread -- I use Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 quite a lot these days. But I *never* use it to produce an mpeg-2 for precisely the reason Carole outlined in her last posting. (The file with the .m2v is in fact an mpeg-2 file, but only contains the video stream. I am sure someone will have a more technical explanation. Adobe also produces a separate audio file, though I am no longer sure which of the two others mentioned by Carole is the audio in question... And of course, using Adobe Encore or even After Effects, it is possible to insert these separate files into their relevant timelines and author a disc. But all this seemed just a touch too complex and worrying for someone at my current state of video development. Hell, I am only at the stage of no longer taking a deep breath when I even open Premiere!! And after 4 years of using successive VS versions, I am only just now venturing into the perilous waters of Workshop...)

Instead, I produce a final DV/AVI in Premiere (File > Export > Movie). Then I use Video Studio 10+ to convert it to a DVD-compliant mpeg-2. This is a straightforward and usually fairly quick process (taking usually less than real time on my computer). And then I insert the new mpeg-2s into DVDWS for authoring a disc...

I guess DVDWS could also convert the DVs during the authoring process> However, since I constantly recommend against that work flow in the VS forum, I tend to follow my own instruction even here! And this way, I also get to preview the mpeg-2s to make sure everything is OK before I insert them into the authoring process in DVDWS.

[lombard33]

Actually, I used the information everyone so generously provided to dynamite this particular logjam.

In Premiere Pro 2.0, exported the movie as a DV AVI into DVDWS with its soundtrack intact, and burned it successfully. In PP2.0, it did take a bit of monkeying to make the music synchronization correct, and I did have to re-do the project a few times, but as I had saved each segment along the way it was relatively easy to recreate when the working project I had open started behaving peculiarly. Once it came out right more than once in a row (!!), I immediately jumped to DVDWS.

One thing I did notice, though -- the PP2.0 AutoSave function practically filled up my massive hard drive with "working" versions of this project rather than overwriting the file. It's been a buggerbear hunting down these extra files and killing 'em. But then again, that's what we do here in Texas, don't we? Or so I'm told.



Thank you -- all of you -- for your help, and for your patience.

Hugs,

Carole the Fledgling Producer

[skier-hughes]

Ken,

Mpeg2 dvd files can be either programme stream m2p or elementary stream m2v.

The m2p programme stream is the audio and video files combined together.

The m2v elementary stream is the video file, m2v and a seperate audio file which will depend on what choice you make and which app you use to make it. The most common file types would be mpeg-1 layer II or uncompressed pcm.

I always make m2v files, (using procoder) which means I have a seperate audio file to import and then I change it to ac-3 using workshop.

Graham