Posted by cam35pilot on 10/02/07 00:57

On Oct 1, 8:53 pm, cam35pilot <cam35pi...@aol.com> wrote:
> I appreciate all of your comments, but your losing me. I have a DVD+R
> with some hi-def footage (made by a friend in Illinois). I assume that
> it's MPEG-2, as it's 2+ hours long, and looks really good (hi-def 36"
> flat screen tv I'm looking at it on). I want to edit out some clips
> and put it into a Power Point to show on that same size TV, so I want
> something that will look somewhat good. I've created a few AVIs in
> Premiere 6, and some WMVs and MPEGs that look like crap. Is it a codec
> problem here?
>
> I'm only experienced in editing footage from a video camera (I don't
> have original footage). Can someone give me some basics about making
> it look as clear as possible? I'm only doing like 6-7 30 second clips.
> It's not a commercial thing, just "in house" for a few co-workers.
>
> Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Rich

PS- I'm not looking for "full screen" on the PowerPoint, but maybe 60%
of the screen, and I'd like the video to look decent. A 30 second AVI
is like 250MB at 740 resolution. I'd like to get it to about 30MB if
possible. I was under the impression that MPEG-2 was a good
compression versus quality that HD stuff was used with. Am I totally
wrong there?

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