Please help w/ capturing using cce plugin

andy

I've been playing around with capturing and exporting clips from my DV camcorder with Adobe premiere 6.0.  I can capture the file fine.  But when I try to export the video by using the cce encoder, I keep getting the message quot;Frame rate 1/1 is not supportedquot;  Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  I have quot;Add sequence endcodequot; checked, but everything else unchecked.  Is there something wrong with my plug in?  Thanks for your help

What is the framerate of the actuall footage?

Can you encode it with Premiere's native encoder?

Can you encode other sources with the CEE plug-in?

The framerae is 29 frames/sec.  This is the avi file that is exported from premiere after using its native encoder (microsoft AVI).  I have no problem exporting using the regular encoders.  I don't know if the cce encoder works in other programs b/c I don't have any other editing programs that allows me to choose the encoder (the only other one I have is Sonic Vegas 4.0).  Thanks for your response.

If, in fact, your framerate is 29 FPS, CCE will not accept it because it only takes 29.97.  Now, I am confused, I thought you were talking about CCE Premiere plug-in, but in this reply it sounds like you are dealing with a file that is already encoded by Premiere in .AVI format.  Initially, you were talking about a capture.  Which way is it?  I am confused.

Premiere has a built in MPEG-2 encoder.  Instead of exporting a movie, go to use the encoder--it's a couple of lines below.  See if you can encode that way.

When I was talking about other sources, I mean other media files, not other applications.  To determine if this problem you're having is unique to the captured file, I'd try to encode something else with CCE.  That way you will know where the problem is: the captured file or the plug-in in general.  But at this point I am not sure what you are doing anymore...

Let us know if we can help further.

I'm sorry I made it confusing.  This is my problem.  After I capture a clip within premiere using ieee connection. When I try to export that clip, there is a video setting menu I can go into.  Then under file type, I have a few choices 2 of which include quot;microsoft DV aviquot;, and quot;cinema craft mpeg-2quot;.  What I was trying to say before is if I try to use the cc mpeg2 setting to export the clip, it gives me that framerate 1/1 error message, but if I use the microsoft DV avi setting to export the file, then I end up with an AVI file.  When I use this avi file for dvd burning and all that, the quality is not as good as I had hoped.  THe reason I asked the original question is I suspect that if I use the Microsoft DV avi to export, the quality I'm getting may not be as good as if I export it with the CCE mpeg setting (but so far I haven't been able to get the CC mpeg-2 setting to work for me).  I'm now worried that the cce plug is not compatible with premiere 6.0.  I've seen some plug in for 6.5, but I'm not sure about 6.0 version anymore.  Thank you for your input, once again.

I am afraid I've reached my limits as far as Premiere 6.0 goes ... I use 7.0.

However, in your post you mention that you use avi's encoded with the Microsoft DV codec to make DVD's.  That you simply cannot do without encoding DVD's into mpeg-2 somewhere along the line.  What do you use to transcode your AVI files?  CCE?

It seems to me that the quality should drop somewhat if you go Premieregt;AVIgt;MPEG-2 instead of Premieregt;MPEG-2 via CCE directly.  This is simply because there is an extra compression step involved.  But then again, maybe not--maybe Premiere does AVI encoding before submitting the file to CCE-plug-in.

Were you able to encode MPEG-2 with Premiere's native MPEG-2 encoder?  Is there one in Premiere 6.0?

I think that might be the difference b/w 6.0 and 7.0.  I think other than the cce plug in, premiere 6.0 doesn't have a native mpeg 2 encoder (someone correct me if I'm wrong).  I guess I'll look into buying 7.0.  Thanks a lot.