I have ordered a DV-200 editing card + plus some other bits including a CD-R drive. I was wondering if anyone knows about a decent MPEG2 software encoding programme that would work with Premiere 5.1, is fairly cheap (less than £100!) and works well. I would use this to archive footage on CD-ROM and send to friends over-seas. Anyone able to help?
First off, you won't get much MPEG2 onto 650mb of CD.
That aside you could try Darim DVMPEG external codec from darvision.com
It can encode MPEG1 and MPEG2 streams. MPEG1 results are certainly okay, I've never used its MPEG2 capablity yet. I think its pretty cheap, too.
Because its an external codec it shows up as an option to encode in premiere.
Ollie,
You might want to try MainActor which will convert just about any format to any other. I've used it to convert avi's to MPEG1 and it's pretty good. I've not tried MPEG2.
You can download a "hobbled" trial version from mainconcept.com and if you decide to buy (DM99) they will send you a licence string which fully enables it.
For the money, you get not only an editor but a timeline sequencer.
Thanks for the tips. I'll take a look and try them out. I'm not bothered about not being able to store much MPEG2 on CD, it's just better quality. I'll see how MPEG1 looks first. Thanks again.