Import trouble...

Dagre · Post by **Dagre** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 11:42 am

How do you get a MKV to import to Windows Movie Maker or Adobe Premeire Pro 1.5.

While im asking that, i want to ask, whats the most current or best version of Premeire?

Thanks for any help
--Dagre

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Apr 23, 2005 12:50 pm

I don't know if VirtualDubMod has support for MKV files, but if it does, use it to extract the video stream and save to .AVI, either by direct-stream-copying it or by converting the clips you need to something more editor-friendly, like HuffYUV.

Dagre · Post by **Dagre** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:00 pm

Is there some way to make it into a WMV or something? AVI is waaay to big. one epidose's about 15gigs! (i only have 12 left on my comp, lol)

Any help is apprecated!
--Dagre

Kaji01 · Post by **Kaji01** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 9:24 pm

If you're doing it in HuffYUV it's best to just export the clips you're going to use and edit in that fashion

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:38 am

Dagre wrote:Is there some way to make it into a WMV or something? AVI is waaay to big. one epidose's about 15gigs! (i only have 12 left on my comp, lol)

Then use direct stream copy, which merely extracts the video stream from the MKV file and saves it to a new AVI without converting.

Of course, if you want to be able to edit these AVIs nicely, you'll have to serve them up with AVISynth's <b>AVISource()</b>. As a general rule, editing programs don't play nice with MPEG-4 (includes DivX, XviD, 3ivX, MS MPEG-4, etc.) video sources.

Dagre · Post by **Dagre** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:10 am

err... okay...
...what...?

(holds head in confusion)

whats this huffy thing, and what do you mean edit AVI's?
you can do that?

please forgive my newbness, im still learning

Dagre · Post by **Dagre** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:12 am

oh wait, you mean edit like in WMM?
i dont konw how to actualy edit the vedio itself.. like that Euporia vedio....
beyond me so far...

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 11:57 am

Dagre wrote:whats this huffy thing,

http://www.neuron2.net/www.math.berkele ... ffyuv.html

HuffYUV is a lossless codec (meaning it reproduces pixel-for-pixel just what it's given, barring colorspace conversions) that can store data in either the RGB32 or the YUY2 colorspace.

Since every frame in a HuffYUV stream is a keyframe, and since there's no quality loss, it's ideal for making source clips for editing AMVs.

Dagre wrote:and what do you mean edit AVI's?

I mean use them as source to make your AMV in whatever your video editing program is, like WMM2 or Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.