Hi all. I've been playing with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 and 2.0 and have been getting some crumby results editting video. Having read through some related posts, it looks like Adobe Premiere might not be the right app for what I'm doing - which is combining video and clips from multiple, dissimilar sources (mpeg, avi, mpeg-2 video, varying frame rates and frame sizes, etc.).
Premiere Pro 1.5 allowed me to stick these sources together, but yielded avi video that was jumpy in some sections.
Premiere Pro 2.0 does not allow me to do this - instead, it declares that the video sources are unsupported or damaged and does not import them to the project.
Like I said, it seems as though Premiere Pro isn't the optimal tool for this given my source files, so I'm wondering if there's a better option out there? Does a single tool exist, or should I be looking to standardize my video to a single format (say AVI) before attempting editting?
Thoughts? Advice?
Thanks,
Zero
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Given that you have one program producing jumpy video, and th eother refusing to load the video at all, I would first suspect the quality of the source material.
Most pro-sumer and professional editing software is designed to work well within the small range of file types that professionals use. They are not designed for the average guy who downloads lots of stuff off the net and tries to sling it all together - not their target audience. This means that there is little tolerence for material of a sub-standard nature.
There are tools around though that will be more tolerent of this material. The most logical that I can see is probably avisynth. You can load pretty much anything you have codecs for, resize it to get a consistent resolution, and output (through virtualdub) to either uncompressed, losslessly compressed or even DV avi. From there editing should be much easier. There are also a lot of filters for avisynth to help overcome the sorts of quality issues that arise when resizing or working with over compressed source material.Read my blog here.
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