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Importing/Converting creates jagged edges
Hi folk
Yep – a newbie with (hopefully) a basic question. Had wedding footage on a cheap mini DV camera. Got that converted onto a DVD for me – can view nicely on DVD player. Used AVI.net to convert VOB file from DVD into a DivX AVI file. Knowing that I can’t edit that AVI file in Premier Pro, I then used VirtualDub to convert DivX AVI file into uncompressed AVI file using HUFFY codec.
Worked well – got footage into P-PRo edited, added JPG’s and soundtrack. Finally exported to AVI file to find any panning/movement shots displayed jagged edges around objects. It
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You start with mini DV, let’s call that 144
Compress that 12 times to create a VOB on DVD, you end up with 12
Convert that to DivX, you end up with 5 maximum
Convert that to HuffYuv and you still end up with 5To sum it up you start with $144 and after exchanging that into various currencies you end up with $ 5. What are you complaining about? Don’t change currencies. Start with your original material.
AVOID CONVERSIONS LIKE THE PLAGUE.
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Valid point
Good analogy too! Basically no firewire card, thus no way to capture from MiniDV into Premier Pro. Would’ve preferred to just import VOB into P-Pro, but discovered that limitation (i.e. – can’t!), so then began the long string of painful conversions!
Any work-arounds you can see?
Cheers
The dr.
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Get a $15 firewire card for your PC, capture from the original tape and edit from there.
To continue the analogy, you now start out with $ 144, spend $ 15 on a firewire card, you still have $ 131 instead of the $5 in your original work flow.
The alternative you may try, but it could be hit or mis, is to copy the VOB files to your disk, rename them to MPG and try to edit these, but that is a last resort IMO.
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