help with .avi

lordsofchaos0000 · Post by **lordsofchaos0000** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:17 am

please, someone, ive read all through Ermacs guide and everything!! could someone please just tell me how to convert something from .avi(becasue avis dont work in premiere) to like mpeg or sumtin that dosnt look horrible without taking up tons of memory!! i use Virtualdub and ive tried picvid mpeg but it looks kinda icky and there is an annyoing banner on the top and bottom... and i mean if i can just get rif of the banner, i could use that to edit in premiere pro then export it with a better one??!

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:50 am

Avi is a format, you're talking about 'types' of avis. Huffyuv is an avi format that *does* work in Premiere, and that's the one you should use if you're following those guides you mentioned. It's large, but if you just rip the clips you want to use in your vid, you can get all the needed clips in under 6gigs. If you don't have that much free space, then yeah, you'll want to compress them down.

If you're using a single movie to edit with, you can edit directly with your avisynth script (and not have to save it to any form of avi) - so long as you have 2-3 gigs free for the vobs to be stored on your comp.

If you *really* want to compress your footage and work from mpg, then save your clips as huffyuv (inside VirtualDub) and then compress them to mpg with TMPGEnc. The quality won't be good, though.

CerebralAssamite · Post by **CerebralAssamite** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:11 am

all that and... if your really desperate you could run the clip through WMM

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:34 pm

Arigatomyna wrote:Avi is a format, you're talking about 'types' of avis. Huffyuv is an avi format that *does* work in Premiere, and that's the one you should use if you're following those guides you mentioned. It's large, but if you just rip the clips you want to use in your vid, you can get all the needed clips in under 6gigs. If you don't have that much free space, then yeah, you'll want to compress them down.

If you're using a single movie to edit with, you can edit directly with your avisynth script (and not have to save it to any form of avi) - so long as you have 2-3 gigs free for the vobs to be stored on your comp.

If you *really* want to compress your footage and work from mpg, then save your clips as huffyuv (inside VirtualDub) and then compress them to mpg with TMPGEnc. The quality won't be good, though.

if you have the right codec for the avi that doesnt open for premiere you should be able to import it into premiere under project settings by going to custum settings and choosing the approriate video codec.