APP compatible import formats

[Vchat20]

Ok. A little better explanation. The way I have been doing things so far is to take whatever clips I want imported into Adobe Premiere and re-encode them to DV, 720x480 which works just peachy with Adobe Premiere. My problem is that I wanted to do an overall conversion to save time, but converting dozens of hours of video to DV isnt going to be nice on drive space. Is there another format I can use that will still play nice with Adobe Premiere but keep filesize down to a minimum?

[Vchat20]

anyone got a good list for me here? I know divx is a no-no because while it all looks peachy during the import and editing process, once exported it all disappears into a mess of black nothingness.

To explain my situation a bit further, ive got a mess of episodes from a specific tv show here which add up to 2 complete seasons/52 episodes @ 23min's each/all divx/about 14gb total. What id like to do is try and keep the same amount of used hard drive space while making each video compatible with adobe premiere so I dont have to convert the various clips to DV before importing them.

[guns1inger]

All the alternatives will take up substantially more space than your files currently do. APP works best with DV, but you also have uncompressed AVI or lossless compression - huffyuv, MSU etc.

There is a application called link2 that would allow you to frameserve via avisynth. This would take no space, require no intermediate DV file, and you could pass raw uncompressed avi at the correct resolution through to Premiere. Link2 isn't free, but $15 doesn't seem a lot. It might be worth a look.