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Mike,

DivX & Xvid are highly compressed delivery formats. As that, they do a good job. As material to edit, not really close.

If you must edit it, do as Harm suggests and convert it to DV-AVI Type II. I use the DigitalMedia Converter (have both DivX and Xvid CODEC's installed) and it does a great job. It does NOT improve the quality, but will handle about any DivX file that you throw at it.

Good luck, and do expect a quality hit,

Hunt

Mike,

You might want to take a look at the file closely, and then decide if you wish to edit it. Know, that if you go to DVD, or any compressed format/CODEC, after the edit, there will be another quality hit.

There are CODEC's that are basically used to play a file, and then those that play, plus allow editing. DivX and Xvid, are in the former group. There could be some editors that will edit DivX, but I do not know of them. PrPro cannot effectively use the DivX CODEC to edit. Some have gotten very lucky, once the CODEC is installed, but usually one looses either the Video, or the Audio. In the cases, where it worked, OOS issues were almost always present.

Good luck,

Hunt