MOD, AVI, MPEG help
I recently bought a JVC Everio Camera. The camera records in MOD which is a slight problem as PREM doesnt support this. Also I have Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0.
SO, with the bundled software which came with the camera I converted the file into AVI. I found out that it converted successfully but the AVI file was 17GB and to create a DVD the bit rate was very bad. Instead I converted the MODs files into MPEG2. When importing into Prem I noticed it didnt show a thumnail of the video, intstead it showed a ornage colour saying "Media Pending". Also noticing the file was indexing, I left. After over an hour it was still indeing. This is only a 5GB file at 1hr 25mins..
Please can you help me with my problem..
Do I convert back to AVI and have a bad bit rate or convert to MPEG, but you mahve to to give me the solution to the "MEDIA PENDING" and INDEXING problem??
Thanks in advance
There are a lot of articles on the .MOD format, produced by the JVD. You will probably get a lot of info from those. IIRC, there is an entry, or two, in the FAQ's. Do not limit yourself to just the PE3 FAQ's, as much of the info contained in all of them are not version-specific.
As for the conversion, what you want is DV-AVI Type II with PCM/WAV Audio. The file will be approximately 13GB/hour of Duration. That is the nature of that format, BUT it is what PE works with natively. Anything else WILL be converted internally to DV-AVI Type II.
Now, you state that the included software converts to .AVI. Do you have access to the settings that it uses? Can you specify the MS DV CODEC for the .AVI? If you are not sure about which CODEC the software produces, use G-Spot to get the full info. If you cannot set the software to produce DV-AVI Type II, then you will be better to convert once again, though that should not be necessary - probably just a setting, or two. If you cannot get to DV-AVI Type II, let us know what your full range of choices is. Someone can help you choose the best one, and likely give you steps to get TO DV-AVI Type II.
If your output is to DVD, the Export from PE will be MPEG-2, so the file size will be greatly compressed to fit on a DVD. The Duration of your final output will determine the end quality.
The better the resource files, that you feed into PE, the better the output, and also the editing experience will be. The fewer conversions that you can use, the better the quality will be and the fewer the problems, that can crop up.
Good luck,
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