• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Premiere’s proferred AVI codec?

  Posted by Sam Harris on December 9, 2008 at 11:10 am

  I’m on a Mac doing some work for a guy who uses a recent version of Adobe Premiere for Windows. He’s asked me to convert some MOV files to AVIs so he can use ’em in Premiere. I’m a little concerned that if I encode in Xvid or similar I’d get something that would be well compressed but might be unreadable on his works computer. Anyone know what codec Premiere natively captures to?

  Eric Jurgenson replied 17 years, 5 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jonathan Torrens

  December 9, 2008 at 1:32 pm

  I believe it is the Cinepak codec by Radius.

  Jonathan A. Torrens
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  Mike Velte

  December 9, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  [Sam Harris] “Anyone know what codec Premiere natively captures to?”

  DirectShow type 2 (Microsoft DV.avi)
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  Eric Jurgenson

  December 9, 2008 at 1:57 pm

  If the source material is DV, I’d give them DV Quicktimes. Premiere will handle Quicktime (except DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD), although the footage will have to render. If desired, the DV Quicktimes could be converted to AVI Quicktimes in Premiere without recompressing. Then they would play back in real time.

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