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Okay. This is getting stupid.
Having put a split keyboard on the Linux box, fixed the sound and connected to the mixer/amp, it's beginning to feel like a machine I could actually use.
Let's begin with a quote: "I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday." Jack Warner.
The Church Video Project
I realize this is all growing pains. As I learn new tools and techniques and figure out what each piece of software does this will get much easier, but damn, folks. Who do I have to fuck to get this 16:9 DV project to render to elemental streams (m2v and mp2/wav) I can actually work with?
The first render blew up after six hours. Actually, the Adobe Premiere process just quit. Vanished. I'd have never known if I wasn't looking at the screen at the time.
The second render, in five 1/2 hour pieces from Adobe Premiere, wouldn't work because the DVD authoring software wouldn't stitch the pieces together, and there was a slight delay while switching from one to the next.
Okay, so I've got a half-dozen different video conversion programs on my PC. I rendered to AVI - Premiere will do that to any length apparently - and started going through the options.
AVIDemux. No good. If they made a software called AVIMux without the "de" I'd have had better luck. For future reference: muxing is the process of breaking a video/audio stream into two "elemental" streams. Demuxing is the process of combining two into one. Plus, the damn software is written by the open source community, so the documentation is - to be charitable - shit.
Oh yeah: muxing is just a geeky way of saying multiplexing, and is presumably easier to say around a mouthful of Doritos and Diet Pepsi.
Handbrake. Nope. That rips DVDs to AVI.
MPEG Video Wizard. Nope. Same as Handbrake, just a whole lot less friendly.
Super ©. Shittiest software ever.
VSO. Only slightly behind Super ©.
It would seem I'm the only person on the planet who uses DVDLab Pro for DVD authoring since there's precious little to Google when you start having difficulties.
Finally, deep in a video help website, someone mentions TMPGEnc (which supposedly is short for Tsunami MPG Encoder) in the same paragraph with the words "elemental streams." Feeling a little out of breath with anticipation I break out Utorrent and pull the sucker down.
Sure enough, it worked.
It's taken two more attempts - at twelve hours apiece - to render the project properly. TMPGEnc doesn't read the aspect ratio from the source file and defaults to 4:3 output. My first render using the software was usable but the wrong aspect ratio. I think I've got it now. I'll know in seven hours.
And just so you don't think I'm a total moron, I did all my testing using a fifteen second snippet, not the whole two and three-quarter hour seminar.
Let's begin with a quote: "I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday." Jack Warner.
The Church Video Project
I realize this is all growing pains. As I learn new tools and techniques and figure out what each piece of software does this will get much easier, but damn, folks. Who do I have to fuck to get this 16:9 DV project to render to elemental streams (m2v and mp2/wav) I can actually work with?
The first render blew up after six hours. Actually, the Adobe Premiere process just quit. Vanished. I'd have never known if I wasn't looking at the screen at the time.
The second render, in five 1/2 hour pieces from Adobe Premiere, wouldn't work because the DVD authoring software wouldn't stitch the pieces together, and there was a slight delay while switching from one to the next.
Okay, so I've got a half-dozen different video conversion programs on my PC. I rendered to AVI - Premiere will do that to any length apparently - and started going through the options.
AVIDemux. No good. If they made a software called AVIMux without the "de" I'd have had better luck. For future reference: muxing is the process of breaking a video/audio stream into two "elemental" streams. Demuxing is the process of combining two into one. Plus, the damn software is written by the open source community, so the documentation is - to be charitable - shit.
Oh yeah: muxing is just a geeky way of saying multiplexing, and is presumably easier to say around a mouthful of Doritos and Diet Pepsi.
Handbrake. Nope. That rips DVDs to AVI.
MPEG Video Wizard. Nope. Same as Handbrake, just a whole lot less friendly.
Super ©. Shittiest software ever.
VSO. Only slightly behind Super ©.
It would seem I'm the only person on the planet who uses DVDLab Pro for DVD authoring since there's precious little to Google when you start having difficulties.
Finally, deep in a video help website, someone mentions TMPGEnc (which supposedly is short for Tsunami MPG Encoder) in the same paragraph with the words "elemental streams." Feeling a little out of breath with anticipation I break out Utorrent and pull the sucker down.
Sure enough, it worked.
It's taken two more attempts - at twelve hours apiece - to render the project properly. TMPGEnc doesn't read the aspect ratio from the source file and defaults to 4:3 output. My first render using the software was usable but the wrong aspect ratio. I think I've got it now. I'll know in seven hours.
And just so you don't think I'm a total moron, I did all my testing using a fifteen second snippet, not the whole two and three-quarter hour seminar.