[David Debonnaire]

Hello Eddie,

Thank you very much for your links in the previous post, the referenced material has helped with my understanding of the subject – as you may have gathered, MultiMedia is not really my strong point, but I am learning 😉

David D.

[David Debonnaire]

Hi Eddie,

thanks for the pointers, I was totally unaware of the fact that ‘edit’ & ‘play’ codecs differ! I have started to google around for more information, and my suspicions about having too many differing products (and their CoDecs) having negative effects seem to be well founded.
The flip side is of course, that so many differing file type / codec combinations being offered or available, requires that one has a broad spectrum of software to cope with mainstream MM data – so much for standardisation 🙁
Can you recommend any particularly well matched editing / playback DV-AVI CoDec combination (if there is such a thing!), I shall be using DV AVI (as you suggested) and primarily the European PAL System as my target.

again, brgds …

David D.

[David Debonnaire]

Hi Eddie,

.. I somehow had the feeling that somebody was going to ask me that!

I can only pass on the following:
The file was no recorded by myself – this was done by means of a Web-based VCR service, therefore I have not yet really been interested in finding out what was used to code the file.
What I do know is that I have no problems playing this file with diverse MM players : VLC, DivX (latest), etcetera.
I probably have too many different CoDecs for one and the same type of file, and I probably do need to thin out the diversity.
Back to your question though, I did see that the ‘haali splitter’ was active during editing in PremierePro, is this suitable / compatible? What would be optimal??

As soon as I am able, I shall gather complete details and pass them on to you.

brgds,

David D.