
See CORRECTIONS at bottom. I guess I finally snapped. I just read one YouTube comment too many about "all of a sudden my editing program wouldn't recognize my clips and I don't know why" and that was it! ;-) Here are links explaining why you shouldn't edit with Xvid AVI, DivX AVI, MPEG, WMV, MPEG-4, MP4, H.264, H.263, Sorenson 3, or other downloaded clips (or footage that you converted to these formats from your DVD). Please read these links before commenting and telling me that XviD or DivX or whatever works for you, so it must be okay. LOL (Thanks. :D ) aquilinestudios.org www.pacifier.com www.animemusicvideos.org About editing in MPEG, Adobe has this to say: "MPEG files don't lend themselves to editing because the video frames in an MPEG file aren't self-contained. That is, any given video frame contains only the information that has changed from the previous frame. During editing, a previous frame required to fully decompress a given frame may not be present, resulting in poor quality of the final rendered frame." Adobe link: kb.adobe.com What Adobe says about MPEGs doesn't just apply to Adobe software, or only to MPEGs, but to all the editors we use for vidding, and any codecs which do not use complete frames. (Which is what we're talking about here.) No, it's probably not something else that's causing your software to have problems, to crash, or to refuse to open those AVI files. It's probably the CODECS. No, it doesn't matter that they "used to work." They don't <b>...</b>
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