Using Premiere CS4 to edit Ripped Clip

[jbandy1]

I am using Any DVD and AVS Video Converter 7 to rip a clip off of a Blu-ray disc. I have tried importing the clips into premiere CS4 for editing but I receive multiple errors and sometimes cannot import the clips at all.

I have tried AVI, .MOV, WMV. None work. Has anyone been able to do this? What format, codec, video resolution bitrate and audio settings were you using.

Thank you!

[jbandy1]

Any help here. Someone has to have tried this before. The clip I need is for a anniversary party video and it's coming up soon. Please help if you have anything to offer.

Here are the different codecs that are available.

MPEG 4
Microsoft MP4
IBM Motion
MPEG 2
Huffman Lossless Codec
Uncompressed Microsoft Video 1
Intel Indeo IYUV 4:2:0
Ceinepack Radius
FFDS
M102, 103, 104
M701, 704, 705, 702
Matrox DVC Pro
Matrox DVC Pro 50
Matrox MPEG2

Which would you recommend and why?

[poisondeathray]

if it's h264 or mpeg2 blu-ray , you don't need to convert, premiere will accept it natively (.m2ts clips) , only vc-1 needs to be converted

if you had to convert, i would use huffyuv which might correspond to huffman lossless in your list , but huffyuv needs to be installed separately for it to work in premiere. Why use it? because it's lossless

if you don't care for a bit of quality loss matrox mpeg2 should work as well, if it's this version:
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/version1.0/

Use higher bitrates to minimize quality loss in your intermediate file