Alright, I come here as a TV producer, and know next to nothing about compressing video for web use. I created my AMV in Final Cut at home, and then exported it to Premiere Pro at work in order to do a little bit of final touch ups in After Effects. I've got a perfect DVD copy. I've read But going online here and trying to learn how to make an h.264 compressed video... it's like I'm trying to read Greek, and I'll admit it, I'm totally lost.
I downloaded AVISynth and MeGUI, attempting to follow what I could of the tutorials up on this site.
So I'll ask this simply. Currently I have an NTSC, interlaced 720x480 DV-AVI exported file from Premiere. From that I made a 640x480, progressive, uncompressed-AVI. Which one should I use, what software am I going to need to use to encode it with, and what do I need to do to make it work? As I've said, the tutorials are getting me nowhere. Should I just send it back to my Mac and compress it with QT-Pro or Handbreak?
Damn Premiere for having such an unbelievably lousy encoder... I can't even make a decent MOV file for the FCP users in my market, it's just emberrassing!


