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legoline in vidding_tech

Best codec to use?

Jun 26, 2011 21:00

I've been getting into vidding recently and Foolish Passion as well as this community have proven to be a goldmine of helpful advice and tutorials ( Read more... )

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sc_fossil June 26 2011, 21:21:37 UTC

I don't use Sony but I did use Foolish Passion's step by step instructions on now to export a good quality file. I prefer MPEG Streamclip over Avidemux but both programs work. Their instructions are here: http://fpvideos.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tutorials2&action=display&thread=233

I admit my ignorance regarding codecs. I've never picked one. I only followed the instructions to export my avi file to an mp4 file. I think they look just fine, much better than wmv or mpeg files.

I've probably not been any help!

legoline June 27 2011, 04:33:49 UTC

First of all, thank you so much for your reply!

Unfortunately, Streatmclip doesn't work on my computer for whatever reason. I think it might be because I'm on Windows 7 and Streamclip was never developed past version 1.2 for PC users. I think the lovely girl who wrote the tutorial might be on a Mac and using a newer version of Streamclip. I'll go back and reread the tutorial. Maybe I've missed something? (THank you for the link!)

sc_fossil June 27 2011, 10:31:13 UTC

You might ask them. I know when I had a problem combining 4:3 footage with 16:9, they were a big help. One of the gals walked me through what I needed to do to crop the footage to make all the clips the same aspect ratio. It was driving me nuts having them hop from wide screen to standard. The gal was quite knowledgable and her instructions worked, which I really appreciated.

Good luck!

legoline June 27 2011, 20:49:14 UTC

I have made a post at the forum now but it looks like it's not really busy anymore. I'm now trying Avidemux. It just bugs me that for some reason VirtualDubMod does not recognise the DIVX codec.