how best to convert .avi into Quicktime DV or .mov?

1. waywardmuse
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    I just licensed some wildlife footage to an educational production company.  The footage was shot with a Canon ZR200 camcorder and captured via firewire into.avi.  They want the raw uncompressed footage so they can edit it themselves.  But they don't like .avi.  I am not willing to release the original tape and cannot duplicate it so they said Quicktime format on CD or DVD would do.  How do I do this in Premiere Elements 2 with as little compression as possible?  When I choose to export to Quicktime, the multiple codecs to choose from under the advance tab and all the possible setting variables confuse me.  Someone said I would need to download Quicktime Pro to do this properly.  Is this true?  Why wouldn't a free shareware converter like Apex work just as well?   What is the best way to do this?   Can someone suggest an optimal setting in Premiere 2?  Computer is desktop Sony dual processor.  OS = Windows XP Media Center edition.  Thanks, Judy

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. bobjr94
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   When you captured it to your computer, was it captured as a dv video ?  If it was, then the avi file you have is the same as the raw video file on the tape.  You can see if you can export the video to tape, then send them the 2nd copy. If you take the avi file and convert it to any other format then you will be loosing quality and it will no longer be the raw video.

   And if you captured the video in another format (mpeg 4, divx, wmv, mpeg,etc) then you have already lost the quality and just converting the avi file to a dv format will not bring back the quality allready lost. You will have to re capture the video as a dv.

   Posted 3 years ago #

3. chrisColorado
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   You could use free http://www.media-convert.com. You upload the video from your hard drive and pick render settings and things. It will have the same settings as the software, though.  

   Posted 3 years ago #

4. ltheresa47
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   I only know that Premiere Elements 2 is a video editing sw. Can it really be use as a converter?

   Posted 5 months ago #

5. Charles Schultz
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   If you have Adobe's Media Encoder you use the drop down menu to get Quick Time format and use the compression of none. That will do the trick but the file will be huge. I just recreated a 30 second commercial and that is the format they wanted and it turned out to be 1.2 gigs.

   Posted 5 months ago #

6. Andie
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   You can use a converter avi to mov , That is a professional and wonderful converter , and it easy to work . you  can follow the steps do it yourself .

   Posted 1 month ago #

7. awesome sauce011
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   Adobe media encoder is ok but compressor will give you the best result.

   Posted 1 month ago #

8. Kenkyusha
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   @Awesomesauce,

   OP is on a Windows box, so no Compressor.

   Posted 1 month ago #

9. kenm
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   If you captured it with firewire.....Just convert it from .avi dv file (720x480) to    .mov dvcpro (720x480). Keep it interlaced and you should have no generation loss... by the way they should be able to use a .avi dv file if you captured it with firewire.

   Posted 1 month ago #

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