Premiere converts back to AVI

[subarusid]

I have 4 mpegs in a timeline with Premiere6, when I export the timeline the movie converts to AVI, how can I avoid this??? as I end up with a 4GB file again?

[AceYu]

What you need to do is go to File->Export Timeline->Movie

This will give you a save file dialogue, in the bottom right is a settings
button, click it and it will give you the export movie setting dialogue, now
depending on the origional files select the encoder and other setting to match the origionals to minimise transcoding. if they are standard VCD, SVCD or DVD compliant Mpgs then click on the load button and load the approprate template. This will give you your mpg out.

There are however several things to be noted, firstly you obviously need a mpg codex for Adobe, secondly if you wish to preview any editing that you have done Adobe needs to transcode it to an AVI or what every your card uses before it will use the video out overlay. This means only preview small sections if at all, transcoding can take a long time, doing AVI's to SVCD mpgs takes me about an hour for 26mins of footage. This also can apply to exporting.

Later BRETT