Since AVI is a container format, it does not dictate the encoding.
MPEG is a type of encoding but most want to bundle other things into a container for their own reasons.
I feel you should give yourself time to learn more about encoding, containers and how such differ. There is NO absolute best here. All are compromises.
The answer to the second question is that such are choices you make. Again there is no one correct answer. If there was then we would not see such options.
Bob
hi
I already asked around about this and searched some forums but i was unable to get a simple straight forward answer.
i am filming with a canon vixia hv40 and the footage is great for such a camcorder but i dont quite understand the 24p native mode.
i capture the footage with adobe premiere pro cs5 and do everything else in adobe after effects cs5.
first of all the footage is capured in mpeg format. is this normal? isnt it suposed to be capturing in avi format? or is it a hdv thing? because when i used to cature with my previous standard defenition dv camcorder it always captures and renders lossles to avi.
my second question is: what are the correct comp setting (framerate, fields, aspact pixel ratio etc.) in after effects for this type of footage? and do i have to interpert all of the clips seperately?

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