Whats the most suitable bitrate for a video? [for edit]

[Lo]

Hello, I compressed videos at 4000 kbps with xvid. It look sooooooooo slow in premiere and i can't do anything big. What is the appropriate bitrate to use but not having many " squares " on TV? Thx

[FulciLives]

Hello, I compressed videos at 4000 kbps with xvid. It look sooooooooo slow in premiere and i can't do anything big. What is the appropriate bitrate to use but not having many " squares " on TV? Thx

Load it into VirtualDubMod and decompress to an uncompressed RGB AVI file. This will create a HUGE file but can be more easily edited in Premiere and after you edit you can then re-compress to Xvid or whatever your final "target" format is.

You shouldn't compress to Xvid prior to editing ... remember that for the future!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
Also decompress the audio to PCM WAV format.

[Lo]

I see! I don't know what format to compress to deinterlace it. I wanted to deinterlace it prior to editting, that's why ^.^

I tried mpeg2 and divx but it gives a lot of " squares "....

Thanks!

[FulciLives]

I see! I don't know what format to compress to deinterlace it. I wanted to deinterlace it prior to editting, that's why ^.^

I tried mpeg2 and divx but it gives a lot of " squares "....

Thanks!

You do NOT need to deinterlace just to edit in Premiere ... in fact deinterlacing is usually a bad thing unless your final "target format" is to be a MPEG-4 codec such as Xvid in which case you can do the deinterlacing AFTER you do the editing when you do the Xvid encoding.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman