I am familiar with Pr Pro and AME and I make SD DVD's and HD Blu-Rays of self-produced
video which I also stream. Of course I have to use an ancient version of Encore which still kind of works. I know this flies in the face of what Adobe thinks video editors do but most people I know do in fact still burn optical discs for customers or family members. And then of course they can stream the ISO or a conversion of that disc if they are more technically savvy. Yes, I wish Adobe would fully support Encore! But that is another matter....
Anyway, there are still some older SD-DV clips that I capture that just stay in their AVI(wrapper) with a DV format and that I don't edit and make a disc out of. They play fine on my PC but amazingly my streamer (a WDTV streaming device that plays absolutely everything else) does not support an AVI file wrapper with SD DV encoding. So it won't play it.
So here finally is my question as it relates to AME. What suggested formats would be best to just convert AVI-DV files if I don't want to make a DVD, just play the clip? The streamer supports almost all other common codecs so that is not the issue. It looks like I will have to keep 2 copies on my NAS. One for archive purposes in AVI-DV format, and one transcoded smaller size copy that the streamer can play. Up until now I have only used AME to transcode footage in preparation to make a DVD or Blu-Ray. But in this case, I just need to change the AVI-DV format into a more common format so the streamer will play it. I guess if it was disc friendly that would not work so for a future possible SD-DVD that would be good old MPEG-2, correct? But it could be anything and I think it is unlikely I would ever use this footage for a disc project. And if I did, I would have the original capture AVI-DV. Ideas? I am also looking at transcoding on the fly to my streamer but that is outside of the AME world.
Thanks for any thoughts!
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