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Exporting AVI or MOV format? Question, debate
After capturing my DV videos into Premiere Pro using the DV AVI compression. I edited my projests in Premiere ( source files are AVI)
My question/debate is, if I need to export the video for use in After Affects, what is best codec to use? Right now I am using the DV AVI format, but what about MOV format? Is this a better format to use? I want to use the highest quality possible, little loss.
If so, which codec would I use? I read some say H.264?Any suggestion from the professionals ?
Thanks
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6 Replies
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You don’t export it for After Effects. You either use cut and paste or Dynamic Link. If you export it then you are losing qulity. Or you can just import the footage you captured with Premiere.
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If you don’t have the Production Suite you should only export as Microsoft AVI (not DV), then under video choose compression “none”, and uncheck “always recompress”. Neither Quicktime (except for the animation Codec), nor DV Avi are suitable for any export, except DV Tape.
Vince
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So does this mean I should be capturing my DV movies uncompressed?
Right now they are captured in DV AVI.
IF my destination is DVD, then compression makes sense? As uncompressed files are extremely large to handle. I use the Media Encoder in PP to ready for DVD.
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Nah, dont capture DV footage as uncompressed, its a waste of space with no quality improvement – capturing DV footage is essentially a file transfer of already compressed material.
The idea behind post processing in an uncompressed format is to avoid any recompression that would degrade the image. It also spares any graphics from DV compression before your final MPEG2 compression.
So its DV -> UNCOMPRESSED -> MPEG2
rather than DV -> DV -> MPEG2(PremPro2, WinXP P4, 3.2GHZ, 2GB RAM, 500GB RAID-0, DV/HDV)
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I am not sure, but I think you can copy from the Premiere Pro sequence to the After Effects timeline without having the Production Studio. I don’t believe that action is related to the Dynamic Link in any way. Try it out.
Steven
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Actually, it is only on the Production Studio Steven: https://www.adobe.com/products/productionstudio/dynamiclink.html
I found out the hard way doing a last minute change on someone else’ s laptop.Cheers,
Vince
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