Huffyuv problems

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Having given up on achieving any really precise result in Windows Movie Maker (it keeps subtly de-synching my finished vid when I render it), I am now trying to get started working with Premiere Pro 6.0. Premiere doesn't like my source avi files, so I asked around a bit and people told me to use VirtualDub to convert my source to an avi that would be usable by Premiere, and to use Huffyuv to encode/compress/? (arrgh, I need to learn vidding terminology!) Now, I've played around a bit with the program and the codec, and so far I have two problems:

1.) The file size is *huge*. For a clip of around 1500 frames it can be between 500 and 700 MB. This could turn into a big problem for me soon, as my hard drive really isn't that big. I have around 18 GB free space at the moment, could possibly expand that to around, hm, 30 GB.

2.) The clips play very jerkily, as if a lot of frames are being dropped.

Anyone know what to do?

Comments

Hmm, I was hoping for a codec that would produce smaller files!

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That *has* to be possible. After all, people were vidding already a few years ago when computers just didn't *have* the huge amounts of storage they have today, and I'm using an old editing software, as well - shouldn't it be possible to find a somewhat older, yet still good enough codec? I only want to produce a fanvideo, after all - I don't really *need* brilliant, hyper-sharp images. The vid will be compressed to something around 20 MB in the end, so the quality won't be *that* great, anyway... it seems excessive to use clips whose sizes range from 400 MB to 4 GB for that.