how do i convert avi into mpeg

[josel]

How do i convert avi into mpeg4 or any mpeg? i am capturing footage from my dv camcorder via prmiere pro 1.5 capture screen. when i have the footage it is in avi, so how do i convert it without losing audio and footage quality?

Kind Regards josel

[Baldrick]

divx,xvid,mpg encoders:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=106#106
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=40#40

if you want more help please give us more information. what is your goal with the files? output to dvd? store on computer? shrink them?
if you want the best quality leave them as dv avi.

[josel]

Yes i want them to be on DVD, DVD quality. so whats the difference between AVI and MPEG? Sorry to sound thick but i am new to this game. I also use adobe encore

Kind Regards Josel

[harley2ride]

Your adobe premiere will encode your avi into mpeg2 format, and you can then make menu's or just burn the dvd with encore, or nero, or other softwares. After you have captured your avi file, do any necessary editing, and then encode it. Sorry I don't use premiere, so I can't tell you the exact selection, but if you search adobe help for encode, it will tell you how to do it. If you are going to use adobe, I highly suggest you do a few tutorials. Adobe is great software, but it is not very user friendly. Once you learn to use it, it is great.

[guns1inger]

avi is a container file that aloows for the storage of video and audio in various formats. Popular formats at this time include Divx and Xvid (mpeg4 derivatives). These formats define the type of compression used to store the video (and audio) data within the container. mpeg-2 is an alternative compression algorythm that usually stored in it's own files. It may be a program stream, which contains both video and audio data (usually with the file extension mpg or mpeg), or elementary streams, where the video and audio are stored seperately (usually the video has the extension .mpv or .m2v).

Both Divx/Xvid and mpeg-2 use similar theory for compression. Compression occurs within a given frame, and across multiple frames (known as groups of pictures, or GOPs). But how they do this is very different. Divx/Xvid produce good quality images at much lower bitrates than mpeg-2 can produce, allowing for much smaller file sizes. They do, however, require more grunt to decompress for viewing. They also tend to throw away more background information and produce more banding in large slabs of colour than mpeg-2.

DV is yet another compression format for storage in AVI files. It compresses based on colour space, and does not do temporal compression (across multiple frames). It compresses at approx. 5:1, and takes up 13gb/hr of footage. This is a constant bitrate, where as both mpeg4 and mpeg2 can have variable bitrates.

If your ultimate aim is to preserve the highest quality that you can for playback on current devices, I would use mpeg-2, at no more than 1 hour per disk. This will allow you to use the highest permissible bitrate for your DVD player.

In the future mpeg4 will allow for HD storage and much better playback quality, but that isn't available to most mortals now.