Hi all, I do not wish to appear dim, but can someone please point me in
the direction of an article, or tell me what a codec is? Why I might need
to change mine? and are there any advantages to doing so?

I have a decent camcorder ( Canon XM1), powerful pc ( Athlon 2200, 512mb
Ram plenty of hard drive space running Win XP, with firewire connection via
my SB Audigy card) I have Premiere 6.5, and capture using scenalyser. The
system works now i have tweaked a few things, and the quality of video is
great.

What improvements can I get by changing a codec?

Thanks

Peter

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 10:34:46 +0100, "Peter Irving"
wrote:

Hi all, I do not wish to appear dim, but can someone please point me in
the direction of an article, or tell me what a codec is? Why I might need
to change mine? and are there any advantages to doing so?

Depends on what codecs you are using.


I have a decent camcorder ( Canon XM1), powerful pc ( Athlon 2200, 512mb
Ram plenty of hard drive space running Win XP, with firewire connection via
my SB Audigy card) I have Premiere 6.5, and capture using scenalyser. The
system works now i have tweaked a few things, and the quality of video is
great.

What improvements can I get by changing a codec?


If you have Premiere that ships with good codecs, so as a first
approximation I would only fiddle with codecs if something is
obviously wrong.


For a first pass at codecs look at:
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/codecs.html
and possibly
http://www.fourcc.org/, particularly the links section, although quite
a few are now broken.


Regards,
Harry.