What format is best to edit with in Premiere CS4 and quickest way to convert a movie for editing?

Question by Noel: What format is best to edit with in Premiere CS4 and quickest way to convert a movie for editing?
Hello, I am re-editing videos that i have downloaded. Making kind of compilations of footage from different sources, movies, stock footage etc.

Most of them don’t open with premiere, or if they do the video is not right or does not run smooth or from beginning to end etc.

so what i have been doing is converting them to AVI format using Aone Software (FLV to AVI MPEG WMV 3GP MP4 iPod Converter for Windows ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista)

I have also been converting them to mpeg2 and then importing that file in to premeire, edit down to the bits i want, say a minute of footage and then exporting as an AVI to edit with later.

Problem is that the conversion can take so long and be such a big file size compared to the original, and this is a pain when sometimes all i need in a few seconds of footage from one movie file.

If anyone can help, that would be much appreciated. thank you!

Best answer:

Answer by James Renald
MPEG is a format usually for HD files with large volumn and complicated codec. So converting to mpeg is onerous. You should choose another format, say AVI or RMVB.
For video converting, I recommand tipard video converter. It is really powerful and fast.
More information, you can search it via google.

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