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Installing the Panasonic DV Codec
For those adventurous types who have used VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod to make your video clips into DV-AVI files that Adobe Premiere Elements likes best, you had to install the free Panasonic DV codec. Unfortunatly, we have discovered that installing the Panasonic DV codec on your PC will disable viewing the video portion of M-JPEG files in both versions of Adobe Premiere Elements. To add insult to injury, there is no uninstall utility for this codec!
Ideally, we need a way to continue using VirtualDub and view M-JPEGs in Premiere Elements. To facilitate this dual functionality, I have written a procedure, two registry scripts and a couple of shortcuts to disable/enable the Panasonic DV codec.
Cut and paste the following registry scripts into Notepad and save each as Panasonic DV Codec Enable.reg and Panasonic DV Codec Disable.reg. I saved the files to C:\Documents and Settings\Buddy\My Documents\Technical\Video, where Buddy is my login name. You can pick your favorite spot. Copy all of the following text in each case between the dashed lines.
Disable script
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
"vidc.dvsd"="pdvcodec.dll.disabled"
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Enable script
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32]
"vidc.dvsd"="pdvcodec.dll"
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To create the shortcuts, right click on the Desktop and select New/Shortcut. In the location box paste in the following command line including the quotation marks. Edit to your taste. Don't forget to change the username from Buddy to whatever you use.
regedit /s "C:\Documents and Settings\Buddy\My Documents\Technical\Video\Panasonic DV Codec Disable.reg"
regedit /s "C:\Documents and Settings\Buddy\My Documents\Technical\Video\Panasonic DV Codec Enable.reg"
Click Next and type in a suitable name for the shortcut. You can paste in the following name if you wish.
Panasonic DV Codec Disable
Panasonic DV Codec Enable
You will then have two new shortcuts on your Desktop. I dragged and dropped mine, moving them to the Quick Launch toolbar.
Last Updated March 2006
About Ken
Ken Jarstad is pleasantly retired and living with his wife in the woods of North Mason County in the State of Washington. Ken has worked with electronics for over 45 years, 37 professionally - the last 17 years with PCs. He built his first computer in 1986 and rose from electronics mechanic, repairing and calibrating electronic test equipment, to manager of a network operations center for a 6000 node computer network.
Ken is now the video editor for Power Talk, the weekly cablecast of the Bremerton chapter of the Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship International. Besides his own family website, he manages the website for his local port district. He also works a few hours a month for a local doctor's office maintaining a small computer network to meet federal HIPAA security requirements.
