• Adobe Premiere Pro

  avi codec for PC

  Posted by Tom Hepburn on October 16, 2008 at 11:30 pm

  Hello,

  I’m having 20 minutes of film scanned and then converted to an AVI. I have a PC, that is a couple years old as well as Premier Pro and AfterEffects. This is my own project so speed isn’t the main consideration as I can take the extra time to render, but I do need to be able to edit in HD with Premier Pro.
  So my question is, what is going to give me the best quality in an AVI format in terms of a codec? I have a TB of hard drive space.

  Thanks in advance,
  Tom

  Jiri Fiala replied 17 years, 6 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Eric Jurgenson

  October 17, 2008 at 12:52 pm

  What version of Premiere do you have? What is your hard drive setup? What are your computer spec’s?

  If you had the latest version of Premiere and a quad core processor, and a single SATA video drive, I would suggest XDCAM HD (35 Mb) or HDV (25 Mb).

  Older computers and older versions of Premiere could have issues editing HD.
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  Vince Becquiot

  October 18, 2008 at 1:44 am

  Quicktime Animation (100%) will give you uncompressed quality in smaller sizes vs AVI.

  Vince Becquiot
  Director | Editor

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Jiri Fiala

  October 18, 2008 at 3:35 pm

  I would go for QT Photo-JPEG codec with quality set to 85-100. That will give you high quality files with small sizes that retain high quality even through multiple recompression (you know, moving between apps, rendering over and over again). PhotoJPEG cannot save alpha channel (transparency), but that is not needed for scanned film footage. There is also QT PNG which offers even higher quality, but it’s way too heavy on CPU.

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