I exported my video from Premier Pro to DV AVI Pal. I played the AVI using media player just fine.

I imported into TMPGenc. Problem is that I cannot see the video in TMPGenc. It's just black! I thought maybe this is normal and went through the encoding process and the M2V file was created by TMPGenc. Problem is that the whole video is black!

I think I am just plain stupid cause as soon as I fix one problem another one pops up! Pleaaaase help.

:cry:

Silly question, but you do have an MPEG2 decoder on your system, don'y u? i.e you have a software DVD player. Media player also won't play MPEG2 without a third party plugin.

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I suppose so. I have Power DVD if that's what you mean?

And I pressume you have tried playing it in that?

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Yes I have.. I did not work. It played the file but it was also black. BTW, TMPGenc created two files, a .Mv2 and a .Wav file. Is that right?

I've never had a problem with DV AVI files before in TMPGenc, but apparently the following may help:

Go: Option > Environmental settings >VFAPI plug-in - right click on the DirectShow Multimedia File Reader. Increase the priority to 2 or move to the top of the plugin list. Now try reloading your video.

If that doesn't work, try using this: http://www.dvideohome.com/canopus_dv.htm - (apperently TMPGenc doesn't support MS DV AVI 1)

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Thx Marc,

I will try.

One more little problem that is costing me serious frustration. I am using Sonic My DVD to compile the menu's etc and write the DVD (got the software with the Sony writer) It worked fine till now. I pulled the DV AVI into Sonic and did the menuus etc. It then proceeded to transcode the video and then write. 3 times in a row it writes to the end and then throws this error. (it works fine with 1 or 2 minute videos this one is only 15 min.)

Invalid Request Time (Div Err, - 19004)

It invariably *&&#$## - up the DVD and rendered it useless!

Do you or anyone else have any idea. If you do not, please give me a suggestion for software to make menus and write. I presume that if I can view the whole video in media player or Premier then there is nothing wrong with the file.