[Eric Aden]

I appreciate the response, but all in all I would have to call myself a “starving student”. All my projects are academical and for the personal use of me and my friends. I feel like we have gotten a bit off the topic at hand. I am using a SD camera and an old P4 system (Yes Pentium 4). I have not yet made the leap to the other dimension. I guess what I am asking is.

In premiere Pro CS3:

With the codecs available , what is the best one to use for archival footage exporting to the .avi container.

I am aware that different codecs are used for different situations but lets say I want a high (decent)quality .avi that not only can I play on WMP, xbox, and other media players but can also be editable with a file size that is less then an AVI DV file. I know I am asking alot but I’m sure you guys have more experience with this then I do, so I figured I’d ask the best.