What is the optimal cel size?

Question

I'm working with a program called Natural Scene Designer Pro v5.0 which allows the user to create a series of still rendered ray tracings into an animated AVI. I would like to edit these AVI clips in Premiere Elements 10, but before going terribly far into this project, I was curious about a couple of things.
What is the optimal cel size that I should instruct NSD to produce that will most satisfy Premiere Elements?
What are the optimal Project Settings in PE10 that should be used in editing this type of "footage" ?
Initial tests have been done at 320:240 @ 30fps (which does not appear to be supported in PE10 amongst its presets), but eventually, I'd like to make things as large as is practical and for the broadest audience.
It has been several years since I played around with things like this... which then were on another Windows machine and Premiere Elements 2. I need to get reacquainted with Premiere Elements and version 10 looks a little more mature and myself, more gray
Thank you very much for any replies.
Kind regards,
Kelly

Answer 1

Kelly,
Thank you for that clarification. I had mis-read, above, and thought that it WAS an MS CODEC pack.
The problem with too many CODEC packs is that they often install "stuff," besides the CODEC's, and some of that stuff is not good for a Video editing computer. Also, many (most?) of the CODEC's installed are hacked, or reverse-engineered versions, and will often overwrite good, commercial CODEC's, that are installed. This is why Adobe hides its Adobe MainConcept CODEC's - so that other programs cannot overwrite them. However, their "priority" is still vulnerable, and many CODEC packs will change that priority in the Registry, so that its CODEC's are chosen first, by the system.
I am a big fan of the Lagarith Lossless CODEC, when using intermediate files. The same for another one, UT Lossless. They DO compress, but at a lossless level, i.e. the quality stays the same. Two others that I like are both Apple QuickTime CODEC's, Animation and Photo-PNG, which are also lossless. However, on my PC, either the Lagarith, or the UT are my first choices. Both of those are wrapped in the AVI format, where the two QT CODEC's are wrapped in the MOV format. [I buy 3D work from several artists, who are on Mac's, and specify the MOV Animation CODEC. Those have always worked 100% on my PC.]
Now, I see that you have FFDShow installed. One power-user here, Neale, installed that, at the direction of Adobe Technical Support, and all has been great for him. However, and especially in the PrPro Forum, many users have experienced very bad things with it, and for most, PrPro would not even run. Uninstalling that CODEC has proved very difficult, and some have had to wipe their HDD, and reinstall everything from scratch. I shudder, when mention is made of it, BUT Neale has had zero issues, and its installation DID fix a problem, that he had. I avoid it, but that is my personal choice.
Now, back to the Lagarith Lossless CODEC. One issue with some CODEC packs is that what they install is not even close to the latest version of a particular CODEC. Some are very, very old versions. Before I did much work with the Lagarith, I would check out their site, and compare version numbers, between the one installed with the CODEC pack, and what is currently the newest version. It, like the UT Lossless, is free, so it would cost nothing to install the latest version, if you did not get that one. This article goes into a bit more info on Lagarith and UT: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/875797?tstart=0
Hope that helps, and thank you for all of the info that you have provided, and for your patience.
Good luck,
Hunt