Making a DV PAL movie

[Bluesbrother]

Okay, this may be a silly question, but maybe you guys can help me out.

I captured some DV from my JVC camcorder with premiere 6.0. Projects settings are DV PAL and 32000-16bit for audio. I would like to export the timeline to a movie, keeping it in DV PAL standard, but compressing the audio to MP3. However, when exporting, premiere does not let me choose the compression-settings for the audio. I do not want to compress the video, since I would like to export my final movie to tape, and I have enough HD space available for the video. That's why I'm not choosing 'Video for Windows' in the project settings.

I installed the radium MP3 codec and virtualdub, but virtualdub does not let me open the videofiles, since they're not video for windows (it says something about a dvds codec and directshow which it does not support).

Even if I choose the video for windows setting, no MP3 format seems available in the premiere audio settings when exporting.

I thought about exporting the audio only, compress it to MP3 (in wavelab for example), and import it again in premiere. Seems like a lot of work for something that should be plain simple though. And I don't want synch probs here.

What am I doing wrong?

[Bluesbrother]

Is there really nobody who can help me out here ??

[setarip]

Is your DV video in .AVI or MPEG format?

[Bluesbrother]

I captured it as WINDOWS DV PAL, and the filenames have AVI extensions.

[setarip]

Have you tried capturing with VirtualDub instead of Premiere? This would permit you to avail yourself to any (video and/or audio) codecs you have installed on your system...

[Bluesbrother]

Thanks for your response. I'll give it a try.