This might sound mean, but it's just straight-forward answers. Read carefully, and remember I'm doing my best to help you.
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Originally Posted by Superstar
I remember you said there shouldn't of been 3 videos listed, but I changed the settings in MC as you directed me to, and I still got 3..but I was thinking that 1 was the original video, 1 was the new encoded video and the one which was mpv, was the audio.
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This is what you can get:
video (elementary)
audio (elementary)
audio+video (muxed/multiplexed)
MC has three windows
- input audio
- input video
- output name
If you opt for elementary streams, it outputs TWO new files, using same output name, but different extension, one for audio, one for video.
I don't know how WinTV names files off the top of my head. ATI MMC arbitrarily named the files something semi-stupid, based on the time the capture started ("1259pm.mpg"), or the name of the input connection ("s-video.mpg") -- or something to that extent. Rename these, don't let software tell you what to do.
Rename your videos something intelligent, like "My Source Tape 1.mpg".
You'll edit out crap in an MPEG editor, be it commercials, junk before the recording, or junk after the recording ended. Don't try to "time it" when you capture, that's silly. Record too much before and after, then go back and precisely cut out what you don't want. You'll use MPEG editor software here, such as Womble MPEG Video Wizard. Name this file something like "My Source Tape 1 Edited.mpg"
This is the file you import into
MainConcept, not the raw capture.
And then name your new OUTPUT file, in
MainConcept, something like "My Encoded Video from Tape 1" and then it will add it's own extensions as needed (MPG, MPV, MPA, etc).
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Originally Posted by Superstar
So in DVDLab, I would bring the new encoded video for the video and the mpv for the audio,
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No, wrong, MPV is video.
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Originally Posted by Superstar
and just delete the original video that I captured, because I didn't think I'd have use for it anymore. Is this all correct?
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No. Keep the source file until you are 100% positive that the encode was successful. Or maybe delete this and keep the edited version. Don't have pure blind faith that MainConcept won't butcher the video -- it can happen (hard drive errors are likely, so keep the drive defragmented at least once per month -- use DisKeeper, it's cheap and good, the one that came with Windows sucks).
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Originally Posted by Superstar
Is everything that I wrote in my last post that I've included the right thing or should I do some more fine tuning?
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You've written so many posts that I have no idea what the last one was. You need to go slower. Your ability to ask questions exceeds my ability to answer them,
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Originally Posted by Superstar
Also...for the audio settings in MC, You wrote this.."The Stream Type needs to be ELEMENTARY audio+video. Your audio type, chosen in a later screen, needs to be set to WAV (PCM) output."
For this, do I go to the audio tab, and in the drop down box do I select PCM? The was no WAV choice, just PCM.
Also, on the first screen, does the Audio Mode still stay as Layer 2?
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For the purpose of this discussion WAV=PCM, same difference. You don't want MPEG Layer II, no, not from MainConcept, that won't work. The next step in your workflow is audio restoration, and you need WAV(PCM).
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Originally Posted by Superstar
Update - I encoded a video last night with the settings that you told me to use. I lowered the bitrate, and made the audio Layer 2, went to the audio tab and in the drop down selected PCM. For the output source I made it C:\MyVideos\insurexxtion and when it was done encoding here are the files for it..insurex (name of the video that i captured, i named it that), insurexxtion (what i re-named it in the output source), and insurexxtion.mpv
All that I did to encode was select the single video file that I had after I captured which was insurex, that is what was in the video & audio source spaces
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Name your files better, you're confusing yourself (me too). Discussed above in this very post.