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avi playback problems
I am having difficulty when i am trying to edit some footage in CS4. It is archive footage that i downloaded that i need to include in a project. It is avi format and it when i play it back it, the video doesnt play but the audio does.
Any suggestions?
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8 Replies
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If its HD you will probably never get it to play correctly as HD needs to be compressed like an MPEG2.
If it’s SD, try setting your playback to “Draft Quality” instead of highest quality.
If that doesnt work then there might be a problem with the file, cause any decent system should play SD Avi’s with no problems.
Let us know what you’re working with here.
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It’s SD footage. I think it must be a problem with the file. I opened it in AE and exported it and it played back a little bit smoother but it is still really sticky.
The sequence settings are: HDV (PAL) 1080i
I have tried using a variety of different settings to use for this video but i still cant seem to get it.
Thanks
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AVI is not a format, it is a wrapper for many different codecs (same with QuickTime). You might need to use AfterEffects toconvert the AVI to a different codec (like DV) before editing it in Premiere. The best choice would be your project settings; i.e., up-res to HDV.
-jeff
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I am in the process of converting the files to MPEG2 using the same project settings.
Hopefully it will work,
Thanks!
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MPEG2 is generally not a great editing format….
something frame based like DV would be a better choice….
Alex
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I will “second” what Alex said. Almost all MPEG formats compress groups of frames rather than individual frames. Which is good for compact files, but bad for editing. DV compresses each frame individually, and works very well for editing and playback.
-Jeff
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Can I do that in Adobe Media Encoder?
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in AME
If you’re on a PC choose, Microsoft AVI then set the type to DV.
Mac Choose Quicktime, then DV/DVCPro NTSC
That should do it.
Alex
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