foggyjames wrote:Going back to codecs...no-one in their right mind would use original '.mpg' mpeg files today. The compression standards of choice are DivX, and increasingly Xvid, which are mpeg derived compression within what was originally an 'uncompressed' (although it always was compressed in some way) video format - to video as wave files are to sound. In other words, it's like making an mp3, but naming it a .wav file, and the player works out how to decode it by looking at the file itself, not the extention.
I was going to use Xvid, but Premiere was being cranky, and I didn't have time to fix it. Anyway, the WMV looks great for the file size.
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James
I do it nowdays with virtualdub (v1.6.5 can read DV) and windows movie maker, I got enough from Premiere lately.
Before I did make a movie in uncompressed (Ok, DV-format is compressed someway) in premiere then I did compress it with VirtualDub as it works much better when compressing to XVID, Premiere was crashing too often.
Now with Virtual Dub just make sure you choose Audio to Full Processing and select compression to MP3 or OGG, depends what you wan't.
Very good and free video editor software, also cutting movie is easier than in Premiere, but I think that there is no Storyboard, however I can't use one so no problem. Effects and such I do in Windows Movie maker, when I do effects, usually I don't do them.
I have video clip that is around 2min 23seconds, that will fit in 11MB with very good quality (means can't tell difference between compressed and uncomperssed) and size of 320x240.
What I would like to is that I would get video from camera in uncompressed form, but that is impossible, I think.
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