[David Ou]

Changing from Cinepak to anything else actually solved the problem. though I had to jack up the frame rate to 60 to satisfy myself. The quality was pretty nice and a lot better than what it used to be. Though, I keep getting a feeling that some quality dissipated along the way, it might be just me. Though I am curious what is the ultimate quality file format.

Thanks.

[David Ou]

I was converting it to AVI because I thought it was a solid file format to edit after my long and arduous troubles with other file formats. This conclusion was only drawn up after a limited amount of research and experimentation in Premiere, so I’m all ears to know what file formats are recommended for editing.

I’m not too sure what you mean by D1. But if you’re talking about hard drive space, I have around 200GB and thinking about getting an external hard drive later on.

And I edit to make movies as a hobby. But I have a large project on way in the future so my aim in the end is to produce the highest quality achievable.

I hope this provided helpful information.
Thanks.