Compressing an uncompressed AVI for Adobe Elements 10

[Daniel_BMS]

I just figured out a way to get Adobe Elements 10 to accept an edit from a certain Blu-ray. I had to create an uncompressed AVI for a 1080p video clip. It is currently about 20 gigabytes. How can I compress it and still have Adobe Elements 10 accept it? I need it to fit with my other clips. I have another version of the same clip which is a compressed H.264, but Adobe Elements 10 only reads it as an audio object.

[Baldrick]

I need it to fit with my other clips.

Doesn't they fit on your hdd or what do you mean?

Maybe you could try shrink to mjpeg or xvid codec using avidemux.

[Daniel_BMS]

Meaning I can't have several more short clips that are several giga wads each.

[poisondeathray]

Do you want lossless compression? or lossy compression

It should accept lagarith , huffyuv, ut video codec if you install them - these are lossless in the same colorspace and will cut the filesize about 50% compared to uncompressed

If you want better compression, then maybe try mjpeg or xvid as baldrick mentioned - these are lossy

Elements might not have as good support for other formats compared to the pro version, but there are many other options like cineform, dnxhd - these are "visually" lossless

Does elements import other h.264 clips or just problems with a particular one?

[Cornucopia]

Just get a hard drive that holds Tera-Wads!

Just understand what you're doing is taking something already lossily-compressed, then uncompressing it (and saving), and now you want to re-compress it, just so it won't take up so much space (??in order to fit WHILE other clips are also being used in the editor??), and then ultimately re-compressing it at least ONCE again for final viewing. Every lossy compression is going to lose data (and likely quality).

Why not figure out why your original BluRay material can't be used directly...

If it takes AVCHD (which it does), it ought to take AVC-compressed M2TS files (the great majority of BluRay encodes). Maybe they just need to be rewrapped to a different container.

Scott

[Daniel_BMS]

Edit: Just figured it out. I set AVS Video Converter to convert to Blu-ray. The m2ts it created was accepted perfectly by Adobe Elements 10.

Actually let me be more direct. I am trying to recreate the Super Mario Brothers 2 Kill Bill video with the Kill Bill Volume 1 Blu-ray. At first I tried to isolate the scene with m2ts splitters like SolveigMM Video Splitter 3, but the programs would freeze or refuse to process the video. Then I was able to make the clip I wanted with AVS Video Converter using the edit feature within the program. The issue is that the only 1080p options I have is H.264 and uncompressed. Adobe Elements 10 will accept uncompressed with both video and sound, but for some reason it only reads the H.264 video as audio.

Why won't Adobe Elements 10 read my H.264 properly?