AVI vs MP2

lukeksk wrote on 12/7/2004, 11:13 PM

I know this must have been asked many times but I can't seem to find the answers so here goes ...
I have some raw video footages (most in AVI and some in MPEG-1) which I have trimmed. I would like to archive these trimmed footages in the hope that I could edit some of these in the future for other short projects.
How should I archive these trimmed footages - in AVI format or MPEG-2 format? MPEG-2 is lots smaller but will I suffer loss that I would regret when I have to edit the videos in future?
Thanks for all input.

Comments

IanG wrote on 12/8/2004, 1:08 AM

Firstly, if you've trimmed the video in MS you haven't made any changes to the source, you've just defined start and stop points for MS to work with. MPEG is a lossy format, so it's not a good idea to try and edit it and hence it's not a good archive format either. MDV tape is still the cheapest medium, so the avi is best archived back to tape.

Ian G