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mpeg-2 was terrible
Another question…
Actually, first let me tell you what I’ve already done…
I had an mpeg2 source file that i imported into PP2. I took that source file (30 minutes long) and I sliced it up and inserted clips into 18 different sequences, and added titles, graphics, etc to those sequences.
OK…so I burned it to DVD and not surprisingly it looked terrible.
So I read lots of forum posts and decided to convert to avi and try that format.
Soooo…the content in the avi file is the *same* as the content in the mpg file….and all of the sequences reference the mpg file and grab certain clips of the mpg file.
Is there a way to quickly make it so that the sequences now instead grab the clips from the avi file instead of the mpg file??? (make them reference the avi file rather than the mpg file??)
This would make my life SO much easier. 🙂
thanks!!—-jason
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Provided the clip is the exact same length you could unlink the mpeg and relink it to the avi version.
However just because you are working with an avi doesn’t mean it will look any better on the way out. It’s still compressing something that began compressed.
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Thanks for the response, Jon.
I understand that it’s double-compression, but I’m hoping it’ll look better than the mpeg version.
Anyway…how do i unlink and relink to another file? i can’t figure it out. thanks in advance.
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Right click on the file in question in the project panel.
Select the “Make offline”
media files remain on disk (OK)
Right click it again and select “link media”
Direct it to the avi
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Thank you, Jon…I’ll give that a shot.
I tried it once but it didnt work because the clip i was trying to link to was video-only whereas the original clip was audio and video. 🙂
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heey
my export product from working with mpeg-2 are beautifull, so i really don’t know what you did then…mayby give some more info on your export settings
i can tell you now that converting them into avi’s won’t change the quality of your output. only it is that the change of unknown errors ocuring while working with mpeg2 is almost none if you convert them to avi’s (weird stuff realy) there is an mpeg2 plugin though, but that is ofcourse very expansive.Bart
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You will need to keep the same clip settings as in if it had audio in the original the replaced on will too.
I’ll see if there is a way to mess with the clip info so you can bring it in.
If you have audio connected then you will lose the audio edits… that’s why it won’t let you do it.
– Jon 🙂
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