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AVI files to disc
I have a client that would like a 10 min video to be delivered as an AVI file on disc. All of my work so far has been encoded to MPEG2 and I notice that one of the choices for encoding is for AVI. Do I encode to AVI and import into DVDSP? Do I burn so a CD-R or a DVD-R? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Jesse -
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Hi Jesse,
I think the first thing you should be asking is why do they want an AVI. Is this just for previewing the work, or will it be the final delivery format?
AVI is just a wrapper, like a QT MOV file, and there are a number of different codecs you can use, just like with Quicktime. A lot of the standard ones date back to the dark days of video encoding and are ropey at best. For a preview movie this might be acceptable. For final output the only one to use would be Uncompressed, which would result in a very large file. For 10 minutes, that would be way bigger than DVD-R could handle.
The best thing is to ask what will happen with that file after you give it to you client, so that a proper workflow can be figured out.
HTH
Ben
Curious Turtle Professional Video
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hey Jesse
another issue worth taking note of is that at present the direct AVI export from FCP/QT can produce a corrputed file, insomuch as the video will often contain additional frames. if that happens, when viewed, the picture will appear to ‘stutter’. this happens regularly with AVI’s exported using the DV PAL codec … I haven’t tested to see whether the issue is codec dependent.
a reliable workaround is to first export your movie from FCP as a quicktime reference movie, and then use MPEG Streamclip’s “Export to AVI” function, which produces good AVI’s where QT’s export fails.
cheers
Andy -
Thanks for your replies. I have a DVD player that plays back the AVI disc that I made and it looked very poor. I have asked the client to please use the MPEG2 discs that I sent as well.
Thanks again.
Jesse
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