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Canopus AVI export
I am working on a documentary that I started in 2005. My drives still work and the video was captured with a Canopus video card. I can play them fine in PP CS6 but exporting them is an issue. They will export as an MPEG2 but I am getting interlace issues and the video doesn’t look as good as it does playing in Premiere. They won’t export as an AVI or H.264 – I get a media encoder error.
Any export setting ideas? NTSCDV25 works but with issues. I did see a post from 2007 about Canopus Procoder 2 which I see now for free everywhere.
I also still have that editing computer with the canopus card so I may be able to export them that way, though I could see having the same issue. If we don’t have to capture all this again that would be nice.
Ultimately I will be working in Media Composer on an Imac.
Thank you!Nancy L. Smith
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What wrapper/codec are the original files? SD or HD?
Are you attempting to export directly from Premiere Pro? Or are you opening the Premiere Pro project in Adobe Media Encoder and trying to output from there?
What file type do you need to output, if you could get whatever you wanted?
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…don’t know how ProCoder 2 could be free…it required a USB hardware dongle to run.
Canopus used a proprietary wrapper, though the payload of those files are pretty much standard DV 25.
I’d search the web for “Canopus-DV-File-Converter” as there was a free utility that could convert (losslessly) Canopus DV to regular ‘ole MSDV type 2 (Microsoft DV) which is pretty standard stuff.
Now…whether or not you can use any AVI files on your iMac with Avid is another matter. That’s a question for someone else.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,Adobe Certified Instructor
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