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  • Exported AVI files are bad

    Posted by Gypsy Taub on August 30, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    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

    Vince Becquiot replied 16 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Vince Becquiot

    August 31, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    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
    San Francisco – Bay Area

  • Mark Hollis

    August 31, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    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 Frame

    Those settings ought to work.

    What if there were no hypothetical questions?

  • Chris Buttacoli

    August 31, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    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.

  • Vince Becquiot

    August 31, 2009 at 4:30 pm

    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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