Image sequence vs movie file

[Michael Szalapski]

I capture my video into the computer as an avi.
I don’t see any reason to render it out as something else before working on it. Surely the more times you end up rendering it the worse it’s going to look.

Of course, I could be wrong.

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[Shane]

Sorry about that, I think I got the terminology confused. What I was trying to say, is that when I add effects, do compositing, etc, would it be ok to work with it in its original mpeg-4 format.

Adobe Premiere will not regognize it, so I will have to render it out as something else. I usualy use Premiere to do my final encoding with audio and whatever else needs to be done. What format should I render it out of AE as? Premiere wont import the mpeg-4, so should I render it out as uncompressed, mov, image sequence, etc?

It will be burned to a DVD, so I do not want to lose any quality.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Shane]

The camera transfers the footage thru a USB cable to my computer. I just copied them directly to a folder. Im guessing next time, I should use premiere to bring them in.