compressor preference please

[daazlin]

and any other useful information . . .

I have been avidly studying/researching/depending on this site for months. Thanks to all.

I'm looking for the appropriate compressor to use for a conversion to AVI from a Bink Video file (don't ask, it was originally a MOV file so this is a step forward for me) and I'm confronted with a variety of codec/compressor options, which is nice, but I have no clue which one would be best.

Options:
Cinepac Codec by Radius
Intel Indeo(R) Video R3.2
Intel Indeo Video 4.5
Intel IYUV codec
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft H.263 Video Codec
Microsoft H.261 Codec
Indeo Video 5.10
Sony DV software codec
Full Frames (Uncompressed)

Sooo . . . your thoughts on the above options? Or am I missing something that will provide better quality?

The file will be edited dramatically in Premiere- hence the AVI necessity. It will then go onto DVD and hopefully play in a wide variety of standalones

Please and thank you . . .

[reboot]

If you're going to edit it anyhow, use uncompressed, providing you have the room, otherwise the Sony DV codec isn't bad.
All the others you list are very old and outdated/poor quality.

[daazlin]

^^ thank you!

I thought those other ones were fairly random (as several searches revealed little information)

[daazlin]

hmm, okay so I converted without compression, dropped into Premiere and . . .

I can get the clip to play in the clip monitor from the media window, but when I insert the clip into the timeline it will only display as a black box in the preview window.

Thoughts?

[monzie]

Post Deleted..due to being no help whatsoever.

Monzie

[reboot]

I don't use Premiere, so I have no idea what codec/compression formats it will accept.