poe1 wrote:But what other option do I have?
Sorry, I admit the structure of my last post was a little confusing. I also didn't mention all the options you could use.
<b>Good ideas:</b>
1. Use, say, VirtualDubMod to cut clips from the MKV and save them as AVIs using a lossless codec such as HuffYUV or Lagarith
2. Direct stream copy the MKVs' video streams to AVI files, then serve them via AVISynth's <B>AVISource</b> and edit in Premiere with the AVISynth scripts
3. Serve the MKVs via AVISynth's <b>DirectShowSource</a> and edit in Premiere with the AVISynth scripts (I don't know if this even works)
<b>Bad ideas:</b>
1. Direct stream copy the MKVs' video streams to AVI files, but then edit in Premiere directly with those AVI Files (bad because of the reasons in that article I linked to)
2. Recompress the MKVs' video streams to AVI files with a lossy codec and use those (bad because of the unnecessary quality loss)