Re: Rotating AVI?

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:32:31 -0000, "MikeD" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:4teht11qm21an84113u7j1dgnq10jicbgi@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:48:21 -0000, "MikeD" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Next question - the original file is 800k, the new one is 11MB! I presume
>I
>> >need to choose some sort of compression but couldn't find a way of
>setting
>> >the output format. Can you point me in the right direction please?
>>
>> Apart from the help file for VirtualDub you mean (aka RTFM)
>>
>> If you must : Video -> Compression.
>> There, I did it without being sarky.
>
>Thanks Neil. I suppose I deserved it (c:
>
>It's the first time I've ever used the program or tried to manipulate a
>video file, and it's not the most intuitive piece of software.

You're right, it's not. It doesn't seem to conform to the usual or
semi-standardised windows way of doing things. I suspect it's partly
the guy coming from an open source background he's implemented stuff
in a non-OS specific way

>With most programs when you want to save a file in a different format the
>options are available through File, Save As.
>
>Now I have to choose a codec and I've no idea which one will give me the
>most compatible format.

That usually comes between 'hard to answer' and 'religious war', so
you might want a seprate thread and flameproof gloves when you ask ;-)

The choice of "most compatible" usually comes down to your desired
audience. MPEG2 is OK, but not everybody has a DVD decoder for
playback. H264 is astonishingly good at mid-range bitrates - but only
really Quicktime and (soon) Real Player support that playback.

WMV9 is pretty decent in the 150-2mbps bitrate range, but won't run on
Linux machines - though you can play it on the Mac with the WMV9/Mac
player or Flip4Mac component for Quicktime. WMA is a dud at rates
below 48-64kbps, and WM Image 2 is universally incompatible with
anything but the latest machines (eg PDAs won't play it, Macs won't
play it , and so on)

The question is : Where's it going to be viewed - who are your
audience ?

By default, VDub doesn't come with a windows media compressor, you
might prefer it to creating an intermediate AVI then encoding to WMV
if that's your choice of format. If so, download the VCM codecs pack :
http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/a/98a6cb2d-6659-485e-b1f9-2c0d9bf6c328/wmv9VCMsetup.exe

Cheers - Neil
.

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