mpeg avi?

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 3:57 am

I've been working with mpegs on a nice little video i'm doing but I run into trouble with avi video.

My question is how can I turn it from avi to mpeg?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:50 am

Which flavour of AVI? AVI is only a container format. It can contain all sorts of compressed and non compressed video formats.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:02 am

And what flavour of MPEG? There is a world of difference between MPEG-1, -2 and -4.

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:37 pm

I don't understand flavour

What do I click to tell you the details of the files?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 2:53 am

Are you able to get these things onto the time line? If yes, right click and look at properties. If not, where did they come from?

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:32 am

format - 16bits 640x480

mpeg layer 3

hope that helps. What should I do?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:42 am

Last time I checked mp3 was sound not video and 16 bit 640 x 480 doesn't mean much to me either, sorry.

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:05 pm

i hope this works, The file is a music video

So where do we go from here?

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:56 pm

DivX video.. To convert that to MPEG you will probably have better luck using SUPER. However DivX is a very highly compressed format, and you are wanting to convert it to a lesser compressed format. You realize that you are going to suffer a loss in quality, possibly at more then one step. Just by converting it from DivX to MPEG-2 (hopefully DVD compliant), then again if it has to be recoded after any editing.

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:08 pm

Thanks yet again on the help guys.

Vidoman I will try out Super and see how it goes.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:03 pm

And be prepared for extremely long encoding times.

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:23 pm

Devil wrote:And be prepared for extremely long encoding times.

Tell me about it! I think I'm messing up with "Super" I've tried 4 times to encode the file but with sooo many options I'm messing up

What should I do with Super like step by step with the file I'm using

Could really use a hand, Thank you

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:11 pm

In the top/right of the Super dialog is a checkbox that forces it to use DirectShow. Try encoding with that checked and see what happens.

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:42 am

the quality does drop a lot. you guys were right. Thanks anyways

neonbob · Post by **neonbob** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:40 am

dabear wrote:I don't understand flavour

What do I click to tell you the details of the files?

I read this and I laughed myself off the chair... I have always wondered why people just can't use the word "type"

(sorry... don't mean to offend.... I just thought it always sounded a bit too Hollywood-ish)