Trouble with AVI

[trikcard]

I have a Canon Powershot camera that takes its video in AVI. I'm about to try to edit these in Premiere and I'm having trouble. I thought that if I converted the format to something like Mpg2 it would be easier to edit. However, I'm not wanting to lose quality. What type should I convert it to if any?

Thanks

[redwudz]

It's likely in MJPEG format. I would first try SUPER for conversion as it's easy to set up and use and handles a lot of formats. But no editing options with it.

You should also be able to open it in Windows Movie Maker. You should be able to edit it there. Not a lot of choices for output from it, but DV is probably the lowest loss of the choices available with WMM. From there, you can encode to MPEG-2 with most encoders.

MPEG is not great for editing. DV is much better if you need frame accurate editing. But MPEG will work with a good editor. I use VideoReDo and MPEG-VCR. I'm not sure which format Premier uses.

[jagabo]

You may just need to install decoders for the compressed video and audio in the AVI file. Use Gspot or AVICodec to determine what codecs you need, then install them.