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Read the "PRO" part of Premiere as in PremierePro

Pros dont have any need to edit amateur distribution format media so....

...Movie Maker is provided so that amateurs can play with making movies.

You don't get the point. If a client comes to you with a pack of apple juice (Xvid or DivX) and asks you to edit it so he will end up with 2 fresh apples, you can be the pro you want and have all kinds of pro tools at your disposal, it just is not possible. A pro would tell the client it can't be done or only with a lot of effort and time to get any result that is lousy in quality.

Xvid and DivX have been compressed so heavily, that a lot of original quality has been lost irretrievably. If you really want to edit that, convert to MS DV AVI type2, edit and export to something. It does not matter what export format you choose, the result will make your ophthalmologist happy and give everybody else a headache.

IMO no pro would accept such an assignment.

This is similar to the question that is asked at least weekly over in the Acrobat forum

"I was given a PDF... how do I convert it to MS Word (or Excel... or whatever) so I may edit?"

The LONG answer is you do so, with many stumbles, using many procedures (some in Acrobat, others 3rd party or just copy & paste from the PDF to Word) but that nothing works really easily

The SHORT answer is... "Think of your original document as sand & water & cement... you may mix'n'match the components any way you want... now think of the PDF as concrete poured into a sidewalk... it is not MEANT to be mixed, it is now in a final format that is very difficult to break apart"

There are edit formats and there are delivery formats... trying to edit a delivery format just is not going to work very well

DigitalSoju wrote:

 

A real "pro" should be able to handle anything, especially the basics. Have you ever met a pro at anything that couldn't handle the basics?

 

A real "pro" does not want to deal with crappy material and put out a crappy job .  Whether a real pro can do it or cant do it is irrelevant because doing it , is the fastest way to lose the "pro" status.

That notwithstanding...if its all you have got from your client ...you should convert it and use it.

(I reckon if I had the first and only shot of martians landing on earth...I wouldnt be worrying what format it  was shot or provided on)