Question on file format as I drag them into timeline

[tommytucker]

I have some FLV footage from YouTube that I am incorporating into a project. I am using SUPER@ to convert these FLV files to something VS can read. I have several options...AVI, MPEG 1 through 4, Ogg, Vob, Mov. If you are moving some stock footage into VS, what is the best format for the program to handle?

[heinz-oz]

The same as the project settings. I personally prefer DV-AVI.

Please note:AVI and DV-AVI are different types of AVI, AVI can also contain mpeg4, DivX, Xvid etc which I don't recommend for editing

[tommytucker]

There is no conversion setting for DV anything on Super@. There is avi....will try that setting.THANKS!

[DVDDoug]

I personally prefer DV-AVI.

I agree. If you are making a DVD, you might get away with MPEG-2 since your DVD is going to end-up MPEG-2. But I've had some trouble with MPEG.

I would avoid MPEG-4, Xvid & DivX like the plague! I've never played-around with that stuff myself, but the posts on this forum indicate they are bad news! (These formats are probably OK to play-back on your computer, but once they are encoded it's best not to edit or re-code them.)

There is no conversion setting for DV anything on Super@. There is avi....

Give it a try. As a "sanity check", an AVI/DV file will be 13 GB per hour (216 MB per minute). I don't know anything about the YouTube format, but your original file is going to be much, much smaller than that.

[sjj1805]

There is no conversion setting for DV anything on Super@. There is avi....will try that setting.THANKS!

With Super@ you have to make 2 selections.
The first selection box is "Select the Output Container" with 27 choices one of which is avi.
Having made that first choice you then select the output Video Codec.
The list varies dependant upon the choice made in the first selection box.
When you select avi in the first box you get the following choices in the second:

• Asus V1
• Asus V2
• Divx
• H.263
• H.263+
• H264/AVC
• Flash Video
• M-JPEG
• MPEG-I
• MPEG-II
• MPEG-4
• MS-MPEG4-V1
• MS-MPEG4-V2
• XviD
• huffYUV

Most of the above listed codecs are described in the wikipedia encyclopeadia