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Exported AVI files are bad
Hello, there,
I got Adobe Premiere CS4. I captured avi files form my miniDV camera, edited them and output them to my harddrive. The resulteing avi files seem Ok until you try to burn them to DVD. My DVD program Convert-to-DVD doesn’t recognize them. Adobe Encore keeps crashing so that is pretty useless. I need to figure out a way to make good avi files. All the older versrions of Dobe that I used made good avi files. I never had problems with them.
Can someone help me out with this one? Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Please give detailed instructions, I am not very familiar with common terminology.
Thank you!
Gypsy
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4 Replies
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If you are exporting for DVD, the only AVI type you should be using is one with compression set to none.
Otherwise, you should choose Mpeg2 DVD. If the total amount of footage is less than 1 hour, pick 7.5 CBR. For anything over an hour, use a bit rate calculator.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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How are your export settings configured?
Standard DV (NTSC) General settings should be:
File Type Microsoft DV AVI
Export Video checked
Export Audio checked
Embedding options Project
Video Settings should be:
Compressor DV (NTSC)
Color depth Millions of colors
Frame size (grayed out 720×480)
Frame Rate 29.97
Pixel Aspect ratio D1/DV NTSC (0.9)
Recompress Maintain Data Rate
Keyframe and Rendering
Rendering options Lower Field First Deinterlace not checked
Optimize Stills checked.
Audio:
Uncompressed
Sample Rate 48000 Hz
Sample Type 16 Bit
Channels Mono (or Stereo as you prefer)
Interleave 1 FrameThose settings ought to work.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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You may also want to check what codec works best with Convert-to-DVD. While “Microsoft DV AVI” is outstanding to use most of the time, there are on occasions that I use plain old “Microsoft AVI”, and configure the video codec to Canopus DV. Some programs work better with that.
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Ideally, DV should only be used if you have nothing but straight cuts, which isn’t the case for most timelines.
Otherwise, you are compressing again. The way I see it, DV compression is bad enough the first time around…
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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