HDV Capture in Premiere MPEG, not AVI

[DigitalRootsStudio]

I captured an HDV tape through Premiere Pro 4 and the default capture file is MPEG 1440x1080. My customer is asking for an AVI file but I'm not able to keep the same dimensions with using Media Encoder to export. 1660x1080 are the output dimensions I get. I don't really feel the AVI is necessary, but will do my best to create an AVI that matches the MPEG specs. Any ideas how to do this?

[hech54]

MPEG2 High 1440 is an available option in MainConcept, but not in an AVI container....only MP4 with PCM or AAC audio.

[poisondeathray]

Clarify what kind of AVI does your client want ? There are dozens of different kinds - AVI is just a container - it can hold many different types of audio and video , compressed with various different codecs

[DigitalRootsStudio]

The client did not say, but I'm thinking he is editing on a PC so just prefers an AVI. I can ask him to be more specific, but I'm not sure if he is going to have a better idea than just telling me AVI. I'll ask what application he plans on using for the editing.

[aedipuss]

all HDV is long gop mpeg-2 and is captured as .m2t on a pc. like dvd spec mpeg-2 it has non-square pixels. 1440x1080 is 1920x1080 in square pixel format.

at it's 25mbit/sec bitrate it takes about 13GB/hour storage space. to convert to an avi is not advisable, as HDV is accepted as is in almost all editing software. about the only avis that would make sense are high bitrate near lossless HD codecs.