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[ILUVAWNINGS]

I'm editing a twenty minute movie that will comprise about everything -- clips, stills/slide shows, text, overlays, transitions.  

I have discovered that it is necessary to edit some sections as separate productions, save them, and then add them into the final version as single panels.  

Once I have completed one of these edited sequences, I must click "Output As" and select the proper way to "Make Movie".   I have been defaulting to the settings for playing on a DVD, which are described as "MPEG


When outputing the mini-productions,

For example, I have a one-minute sequence of stills and footage edited to music.    I have saved this as an MPEG-2, best quality.   However, I notice another selection called "General Editing".   Is that a setting I should use if I know I'm going to merely put this production back into a bigger production?   If I keep saving under the DVD/best quality setting, will this footage look different or be lower quality than parts of the movie that were only converted to another file format one time?  

I hope I'm making sense here.  I'm really trying to communicate it the best way I can.

And regarding audio -- should I select "Normalize Audio" at this point or wait and "Normalize Audio" when I'm outputing my final movie in its entirety.

[myguggi]

ILUVAWNINGS, on Aug 29 2006, 09:16 PM, said:

I'm editing a twenty minute movie that will comprise about everything -- clips, stills/slide shows, text, overlays, transitions.

I have discovered that it is necessary to edit some sections as separate productions, save them, and then add them into the final version as single panels.

Once I have completed one of these edited sequences, I must click "Output As" and select the proper way to "Make Movie". I have been defaulting to the settings for playing on a DVD, which are described as "MPEG


When outputing the mini-productions,

For example, I have a one-minute sequence of stills and footage edited to music. I have saved this as an MPEG-2, best quality. However, I notice another selection called "General Editing". Is that a setting I should use if I know I'm going to merely put this production back into a bigger production? If I keep saving under the DVD/best quality setting, will this footage look different or be lower quality than parts of the movie that were only converted to another file format one time?

I hope I'm making sense here. I'm really trying to communicate it the best way I can.

And regarding audio -- should I select "Normalize Audio" at this point or wait and "Normalize Audio" when I'm outputing my final movie in its entirety.

Actually I find that outputting to DV avi keeps the best quality until you are ready to assemble the final production. Outputting to mpeg even at best quality will compress the video and any future editing on the mpeg file will result in maybe more compression.