AVI Files conversion in PE - Colors are...

Hi,



I have an issue with AVI files. I have Sony Digital 8 Camcorder and through a different program I downloaded the tapes and made them into AVI files.



I was trying to make a movie with premiere 7 using these AVI files. The quality was poor. There is no smooth motion of the movies, it was kind of moving frame by frame and also at the end of the movie faces and surrounding colors was weird (as if they are negative etc..)



I chose the out put video quality to be high and format to be NTSC. I have a 3gig ram, Windows vista laptop.



Am I missing something in movie making setting. Can someone help



Thx...
AVI Files conversion in PE - Colors are...
What type of AVI files are they? PE7 plays best with DV-AVI files. If you are not sure download GSpot and it will tell you codec used for the AVI.

http://www.gspot.headbands.com
AVI Files conversion in PE - Colors are...
Hi,



Thank you for the response.



I downloaded from the above URL and found out that the CODEC is YUY2. So is this the problem?. Do I have to convert this into a different CODEC format to get better output from PE7.



Thx...

Yes. Unfortunately, that's a pretty challenging codec and I'm not aware of any free converters for it.



If your camcorder is a digital 8, you should be able to capture your video over FireWire directly into Premiere Elements. The video will come in as DV-AVIs and they should edit easily.

Thank You I will try that

I have had a similar problem with sony dvd cam.Trying to read old files which were in ima format. accidentally I found the same files stored as MPEG, but Prel El 2 could pick up the files with clarity.

I have found a freeware site winff.org which converted the problematic MPEG files to DVD files with great success.

Error in last message ....should read Prel 2 could NOT read with clarity.