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Hi all

I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro and I have a question as to what setting will give the best video quality on export:

(a) Microsoft DV AVI (with the compressor set to DV PAL) or;

(b) Microsoft AVI (using the Huffy compressor).

Thanks for your all help.

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Huffyuv with the default settings is lossless, so should provide you with the best video quality. I say "should" because Premiere Pro has some issues with external codecs, so whenever I output to Huffyuv from Premiere it's full of errors. Sometimes random visual errors and always errors that cause Virtualdub to choke. I've searched Adobe's forums and google and haven't found a proper solution. The best workaround I've come up with is to use the CorePng codec, which is also lossless and free, and I haven't run across the same random visual errors.

DV is lossy and compresses at a fixed bitrate. It uses less bits to store the greens, and you'll notice bright reds pixelate, and sometimes horrible gradiation. I'd avoid it altogether unless your original footage is DV. On the other hand, I've never had Premiere give me problems with DV exports.

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Taolar, the problems you describe sound similar to what happened when I tried to open up video captured in virtual dub using HuffyUV. It displayed and captured fine in vdub, the video files played fine when opened in windows media player but when I opened them in Vegas version 4, it came out all garbled (all frames throughout). I posted an example on page 2 of the thread I started about using HuffyUV.
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=7640&STARTPAGE=2
I don't want to hijack the thread but may I ask if this is similar to what you have experienced?

As for the original poster, I sounds like Zion and Taolar both have good solutions.

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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger
I posted an example on page 2 of the thread I started about using HuffyUV.
http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=12&threadid=7640&STARTPAGE=2
I don't want to hijack the thread but may I ask if this is similar to what you have experienced?q]

Nope. For me it would just create a handfull of weird pixels in a single frame everything 20 seconds or so. And it would only do this when exporting from Premiere.

Your problem seems to be with the way Vegas is handling the Huffyuv codec. Have you tried capturing with a different codec? Corepng is also lossless, although slower.

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