[Andrew Chalkley]

Hi there, apologies in advance…first time post & an amateur hour one at that I’m afraid.

I have processed all our MiniDV movies using Adobe 5.5 into AVI files. They were originally captured on a 2006 Sony Cam.

Not being in the slightest bit expert in any form of video creation or editing I used Premiere thinking it to be a ‘standard’. I used vanilla settings out of the box & the capture of the video worked really well. I can view them on WMP & other PC based apps and put them to DVD easily enough.

The O/P file format is AVI & they play very well on everything ….except our choice of TV in the house, the Panasonic TX-L32DT30B which says ‘file not supported’

The Panasonic’s are hard wired into each room on RJ45. They are accompanied by a Sonos box & the data is stored on a QNAP TS 410 NAS & served up by Twonkey media server. Works a treat in the main.

I asked the question in AVforum & one member suggested it may be a codec issue & that the file is probably good. I looked up the DNLA & codec data but I do not know how to translate that into Premiere speak.

I saw this thread & thought it overlapped a little on my issue.

I guess the question is, what format or options (in Premiere) I should select to ensure my O/P material is watchable on a broad basis of hardware/software?

Secondly, what can I do to adjust the fairly large number of files I’ve already created to make them viewable on the Panasonic Viera machines we have in place.

If I need to re-process them I will do but of course would prefer not to if possible.

Apologies if I’m posting in the wrong section or if off message but help certainly appreciated as I’ve reached the end of my fairly basic video file knowledge.

The data below is Cut/paste from the Panasonic manual relating to AVI codec options as best I understand:

AVI .avi
.divx
DIV3 DIV4
DIVX DX50
DIV6 XviD
MPEG4 SP / ASP
MPEG
MP3
Dolby Digital • Certified to play DivX Plus HD video file
in Media Player
For details of DivX  “DivX” (p. 109)