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uncompressed AVI files
Help (confused)! I’m a student with a film telecined to an uncompressed AVI file; can I edit this in Adobe Premiere Pro directly to achieve high-quality playback and what system should I use for media projection? What format would a media player hard drive require?
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Yes if you have a fast enough computer you can edit this with relative realtime. You will have a red bar that means you need to render to see it in realtime. What I suggest is you render out DV AVI copies of the uncompressed AVI files so you can use them to edit in realtime. then once you have finished cutting your edit as an offline version. Then replace the video files with the uncompressed one’s instead of the DV versions. You can then colour correct with full colour space and then render out the final this way.
As for playback you will need to know what system you can afford. That will define the limitations and comparative quality of the format you can afford and need for projection. I find DVD blows up quite well on a SD projector. Upscaled DVD on a Bluray Player that upresolutions to 1080i still looks pretty darn good.
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Thanks very much; that’s a great help for the editing.
If you don’t mind my asking another question re projection–it’s an artist’s film and would need to be projected wall-size–I’m here in the UK and given the expense of hiring standard equipment may have to buy my own projector for my degree show. (And I’m about to convert to MAC from PC so also need to think about formats I will be using in the future.) I’m not clear on the different high quality discs: will HD be obsolete, so best to look for Blu-Ray player/projector combination?With thanks for your help, much appreciated.
Mali Purkayastha
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