Ok, so I use Adobe Premiere to edit my films and I'm not entirely sure on how I'm supposed to be compressing it, I'm a little slow ya see :P And I've read that I am to compress it with a DV codec... do I have to download this from somewhere or should it be staring me in the face and I just do not realise it...

Yeah... it should be staring you in the face

I _THINK_ it is an option of the AVI format on Windows.... does that help at all?

You'll want 29.97 fps, full quality, full resolution.

close TD, AVI is a container, and any codec can be used inside of that container. You can have an AVI file that's DivX, Uncompressed, or DV. Also, he's in the UK so it wouldn't be 29.97, it'd be 25 because of PAL.

Cptalbertwesker, depending on your intentions with the video, you'll want to either render to DVD-MPEG2, which should be 720x576 and whichever bitrate you choose, or DV-AVI.

Got it. So AVI is like a quicktime .mov file on a Mac.

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Originally posted by paul:
close TD, AVI is a container, and any codec can be used inside of that container. You can have an AVI file that's DivX, Uncompressed, or DV. Also, he's in the UK so it wouldn't be 29.97, it'd be 25 because of PAL.

Cptalbertwesker, depending on your intentions with the video, you'll want to either render to DVD-MPEG2, which should be 720x576 and whichever bitrate you choose, or DV-AVI.

Ok thank you... I hope that answers my question But um... its she not he :'(
I was wondering what compression I was supposed to use when submitting it to Studentfilms because on the FAQ it says use a quicktime codec... but I do not seem to have one :\

lol. sorry, my mistake ;-)

i think you're supposed to send them a DV-AVI file of the completed project.

and yeah TD, AVI is sort of like Mov on a mac, except I'm not sure how open ended mov is. An AVI uses any codec supported on the computer, so DV, DivX, XviD, MJPEG, etc. I vaguely remember being able to do mp4, DV, and sorenson 3 with my mac. I'm going to pull it out and play around, see what's up with the mov file.

You can download Quicktime from quicktime.com - then you might be able to find that option in your export box... thought I'm not positive. I suspect that an AVI file, using the DV codec, will be good enough, but hopefully Chris will pop in and clarify for us

Paul, .mov can contain any codec which QuickTime is capable of playing... there are a ton of them too.