[hatter76]

I only have an 80GB Computer, so theres not alot of space, Ive tried differn’t Codecs, pretty much anything I find, Ive saved it as AVI,MPEG,WMV,Vob.
What it came down to was saving the source footage as AVI files, with an avi Codec called DVSoft, then I Use Magix Movie Edit Pro, and save them as Magx files, I and from there I do the editing.
I Magix is like a $50 program, actually pretty decent for the money, my bigist problem with it is the Chromakey Compositing is very primative,Usually comes of looking worse than the weather man.
It’s all I could afford, and about all my computer can handle.
I also use many other things to achive some of the fx, I dont have photoshop, but I have a photo Workshop thing that lets me do things to still images or frames, and I use what I make there on magix, and for some things I squeeze in several frames of an effect a second,and create an animtted Alphamatte that I can place over certain shots.