Only frame based output available for WMV

sgraham · Post by **sgraham** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:49 pm

Using VS11Plus. I am outputing from MPG2 file and have customized a WMV profile (setting bitrate and other parameters as VS11 taps back into standard Encoder options). In the summary it shows me the output will be frame based. How can I set which field is dominant? Is that possible? I see no options.

2Dogs · Post by **2Dogs** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:59 pm

I think all the wmv profiles are frame based.

What's the target for your output?

sgraham · Post by **sgraham** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:19 pm

not sure what you mean by target. My output is configured as 1250BPS with some more details dialed in (640 x 352, VBS with peak around 3,400bps, stuff that is not related to frame dominance). I've found that cutting straight out of VS11 gives me better result than pumping out an mpg2 and cutting in encoder.

Post by **Ron P.** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:27 pm

I think what 2Dogs was asking is, are you intending on burning to disc or viewing on a computer?

If you're going to create a DVD, then outputting to WMV would not be a good choice. DVD specs do not allow WMV format..

sgraham · Post by **sgraham** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:25 am

I am making video for commercial sales. It is all internet based and .WMV. I am finding tremendous increase in quality coming straight out of a project constructed with the MPG2 files. I tried back in version 9 when I was doing some testing and never got good result from vS11 direct to .WMV with .AVI files as project files. The difference is amazing! Now I have to recut 12 hours of stuff though lol.

GuyL · Post by **GuyL** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:31 am

I don't believe there is a field order. I believe the format is frame based only.

sgraham · Post by **sgraham** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:54 am

Yes, the only default is frame based when putting out a file to a .WMV format. There are choices for field dominance in other output, I was trying to sanity check that I was missing the command to specify field dominance or I was looking for a command that didn't exist in VS11 for the .WMV output. I always thought frame based was more related to progressive video and the codec deinterlacing would stack the lower field first which is more NTSC style compliant. In the end, I gotta say the output is unbelievably good and I've cut several major steps out of my workflow. Still not sure why but I can repeat it and am happy.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:38 am

sgraham wrote:I am making video for commercial sales. It is all internet based and .WMV. I am finding tremendous increase in quality coming straight out of a project constructed with the MPG2 files. I tried back in version 9 when I was doing some testing and never got good result from vS11 direct to .WMV with .AVI files as project files. The difference is amazing! Now I have to recut 12 hours of stuff though lol.

Field based is for display on televisions.
You can use frame based for video that is to be displayed via the internet.

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Only frame based output available for WMV

Only frame based output available for WMV

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