Virtualdub questions
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I might be going around this the wrong way but I've been playing around with some Vray animations. I want to bring the rendered images into Virtualdub (no problem there), compress them with the x264 encoder (no problem there, I think), the reason for using h264 compression is that I'm hoping that the compressed videos are small enough to actually put on my new website I'm working on without embedding them from Vimeo or such and not eating up alot of bandwith. I would like to preview the videos in Quicktime or Windows Media Player before uploading (the problem). I really don't want to install some other player as I've already mucked around my system enough. I downloaded x264 and ffdshows but no matter what settings or combinations I use, I either get an error, Virtualdub crashes, or I get a video that I can't preview in Quicktime or WMP. I've spent the last two days googling but its all so confusing, so many codecs, so many settings, bitrates, wrappers, etc. My plate's pretty full with all this encoding/decoding stuff, still learning Vray, and some html and css coding so I would appreciate any advise or suggestions from the Virtualdub users or anyone else for that matter. This might be a Quicktime issue even though it's suppose to handle h264. I have PS CS3 Extended, I brought my images into Virtualdub, added audio, saved as an uncompressed avi, open it in PS, rendered it to a Quicktime movie with h264 compression, and that didn't play right in Quicktime either, it was all choppy and jerky. Sorry for the long post and TIA.
Mike
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Ok, since noone seems to be able to answer my previous questions, I have some more basic ones.
- What resolution do most people render their stills with to be used for animation?
- What are some of the free or cheap video authoring software people have been using and getting good results with?
- What are the best codecs to use for a good ratio between quality and file size?
Thanks.
Mike
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Hi,
Try posting this in http://www.afterdawn.com
It has a great Video/Codec related forum that's very helpful
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There is always the concern that if you use some small name codec, that your users will then have to download and install that codec in order to view your videos. Keep that in mind,
Chris
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