Motion Project --- AVI File

What is best way to get a high quality AVI out of a Motion project? I have tried exporting a MOV then opening in QT to convert to AVI but the quality looks horrible. ANd if I select anything other than Cinepak compression (I tired DVCPRO50 and None in compression settings) it just gives me a white screen with some garbled lines occasionally. I really need an uncompressed (or as close to it) AVI. What do you all recommend?

I will Second Scot's solution. I do a lot of .avi output for sports jumbotrons (which require .avi) and I follow his workflow.
Export to ANIMATION
Opent in QT PRO
Eport as AVA no compression
If you do a lot of these (as I do with sports players) I export all my movies to Animation and then use MPEG Streamclip to batch all my movies to uncompressed .avi.
Green Star to Scot

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Jamison S wrote:
DJ OZA,
Do you get the warning "Media files are not optimized for FCP. Either recapture the media or use Media Manager to crate new copies of the files to improve performance for multi-stream playback."?
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For this one project I had to export QT files from Motion. It was taking forever and was playing around and discovered that if you open the motion file from QT player and did an export it was much faster.
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Why?
Who cares, it was faster and looked great.
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Tape Format === SVHS (2 hours per tape)
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Even if I look at my old projects and such, some of the avi videos display as black there also, so what worked before doesn't now.
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Hi, I have been given the task of creating a film in imovie using clips of avi files shot on a creative vado (non HD).
I have quicktime pro version 7.6.4 (518.35). When I attempt to open the avi files to convert to work in imovie I get a message saying my version of quicktime does not contain the necessary components. Please can someone help and also let me know what is the best export/conversion settings??
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Statement does mean files from QT to DV have audio but but following same route in streamclip the audio disappears. Streamclip app downloaded fresh from their site and tried current and new beta version with same poor results... Checked movie properties on AVI file and contains video xvid 1.0 and audio microsoft ADPCM file. When converted to DV in QT video changes to DV - PAL and audio to DV. When using stream clip video changes to DV - PAL and audio to DV but sound doesn't work??????
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I'm using ilife 09 with imovie updated regularly. The reason I said it wasn't relevant was because the streamclip had no sound in QT so no need to try imovie.
Your reasoning is fine as far as it goes but using iMovie '09 opens the door for native editing in DV and AIC for higher video quality (as already mentioned), as well as, H.264 with unrestricted data rates, Motion JPEG and Photo JPEG for medium quality video compression to medium size files, and/or MPEG-4 and H.264 with restricted data rates for lower quality but much smaller editing files. It also restricts you from using the Animation codec which is otherwise one of my favorite intermediate compression formats (which, if Apple hasn't fixed the problem, imports to iMovie '08/'09 but only exports as a blank black screen). Basically this means you have more conversion options for editing natively in iMovie having different video data rates which, in turn, means you can balance the editing file size against preserved quality as may be needed for different iMovie projects.
Can i please ask the following. The file sizes vary hugely but the quality appears the same after conversions. The AVI file is 17mb, the DV conversion in QT is 242mb and the MOV file created in imovie for the project is 49mb???? I oask because of disk space?
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\videos\ProfessionalTechnicalEd\HumanSvcs\MarieR\New\Terminology
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C:\Program Files\Windows Media Components\Encoder>Pause
Press any key to continue . . .
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6) Motion
a) Frames per second either 29.97 or "Best"
b) no "Key frame every" set (dv has no keyframes)
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Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037
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For PC http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ or http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en
http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprotraining/2011/02/red-yellow-and-green-render-bars.html
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Hi,
I have a ton of avi files that I need to convert for editing in FCE.
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Is streamclip what I should be using?
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MartinR wrote:
I'm thinking the problem is you are missing an audio codec required for this Casio Exilim video. Your camera specs say that it records MJPEG in an AVI container with a spec for WAV audio. You also indicated that the VLC media player said it was MS audio.
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Stream: CIMG1281.AVI
Path: ~/Documents/CIMG1281.AVI
Duration: 0:00:35
Data Size: 26.65 MB
Bit Rate: 6.25 Mbps
Video Tracks:
Motion JPEG OpenDML, 640 × 480, 29.97 fps, 6.17 Mbps
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MartinR wrote:
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Yes, I have perian installed. I even tried reinstalling both to be sure.

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