Re: Anybody workout during lunch break?

"DZ" <3420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Steve Freides <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> DZ wrote
>>> Steve Freides <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> By the way, here's a wmv version - it's much smaller, loads
>>>> faster, and still looks fine: http://www.kbnj.com/DZ_MuscleUp.wmv
>>>> Please pull it down for yourself if you like.
>>>
>>> Thanks, I saved it but will look at it later - my Linux viewer
>>> doesn't
>>> support Microsoft's "wmv" format, somewhat understandably. So I'd
>>> have
>>> to boot into Windows.
>>
>> I can cook one up in Real format just as easily, if it's of use to
>> you.
>
> Thanks, don't worry about it now... maybe I'll bother you later with
> some other clip :-) What software do you use to do the conversions? I
> suppose the reduction in size is not due to better compression with
> these formats, but rather a function of the chosen quality, right?

I am no expert on this stuff, but I can tell you that the native
recording format of my digital video camera is AVI, which means it makes
big files but the quality is very good. When I capture the video to
disk, it's also AVI format. I'm using Pinnacle Studio, version 8. A
free version came bundled with my camera, I liked it well enough, and
bought an upgrade a while back for $59. Here's a review of it I just
found.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,574600,00.asp

The issues here are quite technical - of course there is much lost when
the size is reduced by 80%, but the idea, as I understand it, is that
the losses take place in such a way that the perceived quality of the
video itself is only lessened slightly. Same thing in audio - there's
full CD, then there are MP3 and a variety of other alternatives that
sound "good enough" to most people most of the time.

Since you had AVI format already, all I did was place your clip in the
folder on my where captured video is stored, started the software, and
told it what output format I wanted to use. Once I choose with WMV or
Real, it gives me a range of choices of resolution qualities - I usually
pick the highest one or nearly so.

-S-
http://www.kbnj.com


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