What is the best way to obtain the best possible quality...to edit the AVI captured file and then render to MPEG or render to MPEG first and then edit (like add filters,trimming the clip, etc.). Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Cale

-- Cale Ferguson (5150@onramp.net), April 20, 2000

Answers

Normally it would be better to edit the AVI first. But if your AVI is using a lossy CODEC.. well then it won't make much difference I think (since MPEG is a lossy compression).

-- Flancer (huongch@bigfoot.com), April 21, 2000.

Editing the AVI before compression would only make the process longer.

-- Mr.Ian Roswell (cyberlien51@juno.com), April 21, 2000.

Editing AVI will always provide better results than editing MPEG-1, both having the same frame rate, resolution, and accompanying audio. Most MPEG-1 editors are not frame accurate because cuts necessarily have to be on an I frame, which may occur only once in 15 successive frames. For those that portend to be more accurate the B and P info between the I are reconstructed and re-rendered to produce the in- between I but that naturally makes the whole process slower. If one has to absolutely edit in MPEG then MPEG-2 may prove to be a better bet.

-- EMartinez (epmartinez@yahoo.com), April 23, 2000.