avid and .avi??

afatbollix

can it work ...

just after getting it here for teh home pc...

usally i digitize but this stuff is all rady on my pc in .avi format.. any change of getting them to work of will i need to get them into some other format?

Lump

What codec are they compressed using? (Use Gspot if you need to)

John

afatbollix

they work on windows media player. so the codec should be on my system shouldent it?

I'm lost...what is the question? If you have problems playing something try VLC Media Player...thats the usual answer.

afatbollix

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I'm lost...what is the question? If you have problems playing something try VLC Media Player...thats the usual answer.

avid is a editing program, i wanted to import .avi (xvid) into avid to edit. i have sence found out you cant

whoops my bad!

decob

anto-t wrote:

avid is a editing program, i wanted to import .avi (xvid) into avid to edit. i have sence found out you cant

avi is a container format, which means avi files can be compressed with any number of codecs. Avid can handle avi files but only ones that it has the codec for. So even if your computer can play them avid may not. Try converting them to an uncompressed avi or an avid native avi and import it.

Lump

Uncompressed won't work, cause windows will kick off once you hit 2 gigs file size (easily done with uncompressed avi's)

John

SixDegrees

When importing into Avid its best to use Quicktime files. Use Procoder v3 for all your conversion needs its excellant.

portomar

ive used .avi in avid may times, though these were the files that premiere create so they're full res non compressed i assume. now outputting an .avi from avid, thats a problem....

Lump

For the Second Time, AVI is a container for the file, it's the Codec you need to worry about, there's not many Codecs that avid likes, and it's not a fan of Xvid or Divx.