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avi filesI have some old VHS home movies that were transferred and now exist as avi files on my hard drive. I want to edit them with PE 2020 and wonder what the preferred settings should be. There are several choices from AVCHD to HDV to DV to standard def. Thanks in advance for any tips on the best way to do this.
Re: avi filesDepends on the specs of those AVIs. Open one of your AVIs in the free download MediaInfo. In MediaInfo, set View to Text and then copy this report and paste it to this forum. With these details we'll be much better able to advise you, George.
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Re: avi filesThanks Steve. Per your instructions here's the specs from one of the AVI clips.
General Complete name: E:\1990\1990 01 1.avi Format: AVI Format/Info: Audio Video Interleave Commercial name: DVCPRO Format settings: BitmapInfoHeader / WaveFormatEx File size: 207 MiB Duration: 57 s 124 ms Overall bit rate mode: Constant Overall bit rate: 30.3 Mb/s Frame rate: 29.970 FPS Recorded date: 2013-11-18 22:51:34.000 Writing library: Tdattc_O Video ID: 0 Format: DV Commercial name: DVCPRO Codec ID: dvsd Codec ID/Hint: Sony Duration: 57 s 124 ms Bit rate mode: Constant Bit rate: 24.4 Mb/s Width: 720 pixels Height: 480 pixels Display aspect ratio: 4:3 Original display aspect ratio: 4:3 Frame rate mode: Constant Frame rate: 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS Original frame rate: 29.970 (29970/1000) FPS Standard: NTSC Color space: YUV Chroma subsampling: 4:1:1 Bit depth: 8 bits Scan type: Interlaced Scan order: Bottom Field First Compression mode: Lossy Bits/(Pixel*Frame): 2.357 Time code of first frame: 08;06;40;11 / 08;06;40;11 Time code source: Adobe tc_A / Adobe tc_O Stream size: 196 MiB (95%) Audio ID: 1 Format: PCM Format settings: Little / Signed Codec ID: 1 Duration: 57 s 124 ms Bit rate mode: Constant Bit rate: 1 536 kb/s Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 48.0 kHz Bit depth: 16 bits Stream size: 10.5 MiB (5%) Alignment: Aligned on interleaves Interleave, duration: 952 ms (28.53 video frames)
Re: avi filesGood news! Those are standard DV-AVIs, what was once the standard for home video editing.
If you use one of these clips as the first on your timeline the program should automatically match your project's settings to them. But if you want to set it up manually just be sure, on the New Project window (When you select the option to start a new project), select the option to Change Settings. Then, for good measure, on the Change Settings screenm, select DV Standard 48 khz. Once you've okayed the selection, back on the New Project window check the option to Force Settings. That should do it! HP Envy with 2.9/4.4 ghz i7-10700 and 16 gig of RAM running Windows 11 Pro
Re: avi filesThat's great, thank you Steve!
I have many avi clips, shot over several years, with different types of camcorders and cameras. If I run Mediainfo on them, is it just a case of identifying video format, height/width etc. that would tell me what I need to know? Thanks again.
Re: avi filesYes. Although virtually all miniDV camcorder footage is DV-AVI. Only a few really old still cameras shot video in an AVI format that used non-DV codecs. So I'm sure most if not all of your old footage is DV-AVI.
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Re: avi filesIt will be interesting to find out as I go through them. Thanks Steve!
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