Streamclip Settings for MOV to AVI

[Sprocket99]

My material (from a Canon 7D) is 1220x720 at 50fps with no sound. Other than in Canon Zoom Browser it plays back poorly so I want to convert to a similar quality AVI format so I can edit for ultimate playback on DVD, computers and web (the last two being most likely).

There seem to be two ways of exporting:

• File>Export To AVI
  File>Export To Other Formats

Can anyone please list the appropriate settings to give me output of the quality I need without unmanageable file sizes?

Things I am unclear about are:

• Compression
  Frame Rate
  Scaling

Thanks for your assistance in advance!

[Baldrick]

What are you going to edit with? It's best to convert to a format that is not that so compressed so you don't lose that much quality like mjpeg, dv(only 720x480/576 though) or uncompressed yuv.

And if you aren't going to edit the export to mpeg4/mp4 with h264 video and aac audio.

You can also try mp4camtoavi and make an avi from your mp4 or mov.

[Sprocket99]

I don't know what I'll use yet - maybe Première since I'm an Adobe user on the stills side.

I was trying to do just that - convert the MOV to an AVI but am unsure about compression and frame rate. Right now the default for compression is Apple Photo at 50% (JPEG?) but I didn't like the sound of 50% and set it higher only to find my files up to 8 times the original size.