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Thread ID: 74202	2006-11-14 22:06:00	What is the best format to use for Adobe Premiere?	bendetto (7615)	Press F1

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499140	2006-11-14 22:06:00	Im trying to make a collection of video clips from a series of shows, and all of the files are in AVI DIVX or XVID format so i cannot use them in Adobe Premiere, so what do you guys do? What i mean by that, is which avi format do you use specificaly, and which program do you use to convert it, or do you do something different altogether? Thanks	bendetto (7615)
499141	2006-11-15 00:57:00	bump?	bendetto (7615)
499142	2006-11-16 12:36:00	You have hit a common problem. Many .avi files are encoded with XVid/DivX - so they are not plain vanilla .avi files as we used to know them. I capture (firewire) from a JVC camera and get an .avi file at the end. This can be edited in Vegas/Premiere etc. These other .avi files/clips are almost like .MP4 - ie they are ready to run with many newer DVD players/DVD prgrams/software (free/cheap). I've tried Recoding them (Nero) to make a DVD but older DVD players spit them out. The only solution I've come across is to use a re-coder gizmo (Winavi, TMGEnc VirtualDub etc and make them WMV or even (plain) .avi files. You'll probably lose some quality though. The XVid/DivX encoders can cram more movie into a file by deleting things the eye doesn't notice. I think the likes of Premiere need an unadulterated video file to do their thing properly and professionally - that's why you pay big bucks for them in the first place!	manu (8770)
499143	2006-11-17 03:47:00	An AVI file encoded with XVID should be just like any AVI file, They all have to be encoded in some way, There is no such thing as a standard AVI file, Hell, AVI is just to designate it as a video file. I personally wouldn't bother running a heavily compressed file through an editor no matter what codec was used, The quality will just suffer.	Metla (12)
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