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PilotX
20th October 2002, 12:01 AM
Does anyone know of a program to convert .mpa files to any format that can be taken into adobes programs or virtualdub? pref. to avi, but mpg etc. would be fine too.

Tom
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petewarden
20th October 2002, 12:47 AM
I've just had a go, and you can load in a .mpa and export it as an avi in QuickTime Pro. I've been surprised by how versatile QTPro is, it's a real workhorse app for me now, well worth getting.

Pete
PilotX
21st October 2002, 01:27 PM
Cheers pete, as soon I can get the cash together I'll get a copy.
In the meantime if anyone knows of a freeware piece please let me know. QTPro is not much but I'm skint right now.

Tom
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sleepytom
21st October 2002, 01:47 PM
WTF is .mpa??
if its an mpeg file then just rename it (using windows explorer or a program like therename) to .mpeg - you will then be able to import it into any program that can handle mpeg

if .mpa is not a kind of mpeg then ignore this post
eXhale
21st October 2002, 02:08 PM
Yeah .mpa files are usually MPEG's, I think that Internet Explorer is sometimes renaming them like this when they are downloaded from the Internet (??)
PilotX
21st October 2002, 02:39 PM
Yeah, .mpa is mpeg audio.
But I tried to rename to .mpg, and it wouldn't load into premiere.
I can't find any settings on internet explorer to stop it from saving mpeg files as .mpa though.

Dunno exactly what is happening there.

Tom
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petewarden
22nd October 2002, 08:26 AM
I've just tried and VirtualDub seems quite happy loading and saving the .mpa's I have. What errors do you get if you load your files into VD?


Pete
sleepytom
22nd October 2002, 12:11 PM
allmost all dodgy MPEGs can be fixed using the MPEGtools part of TMPGenc (http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html) genraly without having to recompress.

Premiere is very bad at using mpeg source files your better off converting them to avi to edit in premiere - or using ulead or vegas video both of which can edit mpeg well.
PilotX
26th October 2002, 09:56 AM
Originally posted by petewarden
I've just tried and VirtualDub seems quite happy loading and saving the .mpa's I have. What errors do you get if you load your files into VD?

pete

Erm.. I swear I already tried this, but just did it again and it worked fine.
I think maybe I didn't actually try loading it in as VD does not list mpa as as supported file format.

Thanks for your help

Tom
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