Video converting

[occasus]

I use a Fujifilm FinePix M603 digital camera to make short movies with my friends. I know most of you would say that a regular video camera provides sooo much better video quality, but this camera provides all I need for my movie making. I'm not planning to sell them to Imax. I use Premiere to edit my movies, but the program can't handle the AVI files created by my camera, so I have to convert them into mpeg before editing which, of course, reduces the video quality even more. I have to solve this problem somehow!! Any suggestions?

[MatJimMood]

get a program called virtualdub here

http://www.virtualdub.org/

you can convert the avi files into different codecs without any / much quality loss

[occasus]

Thanx a lot!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[occasus]

Hmmmmmmm... but how should I convert it? I converted a 3-sec clip into AVI.. I checked the size and it was 76 MB (!!!!) [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

[belovedmonster]

avi files are huge becos they are uncompressed full quality footage.

[occasus]

that ***** .. [img]confused.gif[/img]

[occasus]

Anyone who knows how to convert a movie into low-size, OK-quality QuickTime? I've tried everything.. almost. But I always end up with like 10 MB/sec clips.

[titaniumdoughnut]

just sorenson or photojpg codecs in quicktime without ANY settings at all should be good quality and around 300 - 800 k / second. dv pal or dv ntsc would also be limited to 3.4 mb / sec. mpg4 is alright too. with sorenson and some others you can choose to limit the size per sec, just expieriment and you'll arrive at your own personally comprimise between quality and buying a new hard drive [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Xendar]

The problem you've got is that Premiere only really likes DV AVI files that are generally captured using a Firewire card. You're probly going to struggle to edit you video files.

One thing to try, download Microsoft Media Encoder and see if it will convert them to WMV files and use Windows Movie Maker to edit them.