Anybody use Adobe Premiere here? (or know video in general?)

[pjalne]

Whenever I try to export video to any other format than DV AVI, everything looks like crap. Even regular Microsoft AVI without compression looks terrible, with the picture breaking up and lagging. I'd just save it as DV AVI and compress it with another program, but for some reason that format doesn't come out in 4:3 unless I write to tape (everything is sqeezed). And also, this thing is more than an hour long and takes 15 gigs, which of course doubles to 30 once the rendered file is done, so it takes a lot of time and hard drive space to work with it in full quality for one more step in the process.