AVI advice

Starkie · #1 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 04:20 PM

Greetings all,

I have a video I have edited and I want save it in a format so that if I need to add stuff to it in the future in a new project it will remain at top quality

Am I right in exporting it as an uncompressed AVI.

The reason I ask is a few times I have imported footage into projects that are MPEG2 etc, and then when I export them as something , the all ready compressed footagethats been imported doesn't look as good. Especially graphics etc.etc.

So in a nut shell , is raw footage best exported as an uncompressed AVI. or another format?

Bit of a basic question I know but its all about the learning that makes us better and I need to know so that I can remove the space hogging project and footage from the computer.

All helps appreciated

Cheers

Marc Peters · #2 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 05:22 PM

If have a DV edited video, I render this as DV to use as my master copy.

Starkie · #3 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 07:24 PM

Master Copy thats the word I was looking for! would have made the post a little clearer

When you say I render this as a Dv what do you mean by this?

Sorry I am not full of the technical know how.

Do you mean render it as the same file format as that captured from the camera. In my case AVI,

I appreciate you posting back Marc.

Marc Peters · #4 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Starkie

When you say I render this as a Dv what do you mean by this?

Output the video using a DV codec. It will be under the AVI save options.

Mark W · #5 (**permalink**) 12-03-2008, 10:04 PM

In theory rerendering a DV project from a previously rendered DV file ' can ' impact on quality - in practice it doesnt - and I am very fussy.

See the results of ten consecutive renders here - http://www.videoforums.co.uk/sony-ve...t-renders.html