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Haikira · Post by **Haikira** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:30 am

Hey ive been using adobe premiere latley and from what i can understand it can only use uncompressed footage, i was wondering is there any way around that and if not is there any good editng software than can take compressed(and not windows MM lol).

Thanks in advance.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:10 am

Nonsense. Premiere will work with codecs like DV, HuffYUV, Lagarith, and MJPEG just fine. It'll also work fine with most videos served with AVISynth scripts.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:10 am

It CAN use compressed footage, but it's best to use certain compression codecs over others.

HuffYUV & Lagarith are the most recommended since they are lossless and give the best quality. They give you the same quality as Uncompressed RGB, but are compressed to a smaller filesize without losing anything.

DV AVI & MJPEG are less recommended since they are lossy codecs and are a bit lower quality than the first 2. Also, there are other drawbacks to DV and MJPEG that I won't go into here.

Then there are the REALLY lossy codecs like DivX & XviD. Now, people DO use clips encoded with these BUT, you have to be really careful, and you have to expect some loss in the quality of the final video. And sometimes, Premiere will go bonkers when you edit files using these codecs. NOT RECOMMENDED. (But it's not recommended to smoke, but people do anyways...)

Anyways, Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>. Especially the portions about compression and making clips.

Shinodude · Post by **Shinodude** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:34 am

Scintilla wrote:Nonsense. It'll also work fine with most videos served with AVISynth scripts.

that is the good thing about premiere.....with vegas you cant do that you gota turn it into a fake avi....

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:48 am

Should have clarified: Premiere works fine with most codecs that don't use any temporal (inter-frame) compression. This rules out DivX, XviD, 3ivX, and all the other MPEG-4 codecs (unless by some chance you have a stream that's all keyframes, which is highly unlikely). MPEG-1 causes Premiere less of a headache, but it's still not recommended.

Haikira · Post by **Haikira** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:08 am

i had been converting dvds to the codecs you say dont work lol, thanks very much for the help guys = D.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:22 am

Haikira wrote:i had been converting dvds to the codecs you say dont work lol, thanks very much for the help guys = D.

Mind posting the process you've been going through that's not working? Then compare it to this for shits and giggles.

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