A shortcut to saving AVI and re-importing?

[Hawk10Vid]

Hi:

I have a large number of video clips I did for a client (95 to be exact) that I am going to use to cut and paste together a number of different videos for his website. I want to edit the clips, and then be able to easily grab them to add to any video. I was planning to save them as AVI files which I could then grab out of the video library. The only thing is that that after I save each clip as an AVI out to a file folder, I then have to go back out and inport them back into the library through the 'Get Media' function. Is there anyway to skip the step of re-inporting the saved AVI files back into the PE video library? Thanks?

Hawkeye

[Steve Grisetti]

When you do Share an AVI from a project, it is automatically added to the Organizer catalog, if that's what you mean by the "library".

But if you mean is there a way to output a video and have it automatically appear in your Project media panel, then the answer is no, not in version 9.

[RJ Johnston]

A faster way to get the videos back into the library is to drag and drop them from Windows Explorer to the Organizer or Project media bin.

[Hawk10Vid]

Thanks for those replies. Two related questions. When I 'share' to an AVI file, the file size is shown as 720 X 480. I am losing the high resolution 1920 X 1080 that it was recorded in by my Panasonic HD cam. Is there any way to save it to an AVI with the higher resolution? If not, how can I save an edited highdef project file clip (.MTS) so that I can grab it and combine with similar file clips into one project. I don't find anyway in the books to 'merge' clips from two different saved project files. I would like to be able to pre-edit the original .MTS files, save them in highdef (AVI or whatever format that keeps it highdef, reload (get media) them into the media library, and then be able to mix and match pre-edited clips together into a complete video. Is there some way to do this? Thanks, again. Hawkeye

[Steve Grisetti]

In my books I always recommend, for hi-def video, you use Share/Computer/MPEG with the 1440x1080 30 fps preset. This will produce an M2T file that imports perfectly into a project set up for HDV.

(1440x1080 and 1920x1080 video, by the way, are exactly the same size and virtually the same resolution. The 1440x1080 MPEG just uses more traditional non-square television pixels. But you won't lose any quality or change the frame size if you output your 1920x1080 video as 1440x1080.)