MPEG-2 file to AVI conversion?Best,easiest and painless way?

[Canon GL-2 Guy]

I have been encoding AVI's to MPEG using Adobe Premere 6.5,now I need to do the reverse!

What's the best solution to reverse the process?

Quality counts!

Just to get an avi file that can be imported into the Adobe timeline would do just fine.

Thanks,
Bruce

[drewzor]

Quality will be based on your codec and bitrate, not so much the program you use.

VirtualDubMod can load video files and handle the conversion to AVI.
Xvid is free but premiere hates it
Huffy is lossless and also free + premiere likes it
DivX isn't free for full features but it can compress to progressive video for free and premiere can handle it well

[guns1inger]

I would go with Huffyuv, Lagarith, or even DV avi. Xvid and Divx are a) lossy - heavily lossy - even under good conditions,\, b)not deisgned to be edited - they are as bad, if not worse than mpeg2 for editing, and c)not handled well by early version of Premiere (including 6.5)

Isn't this basically a double post of this one ?

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=309349