X3 Pro doesn't display DIVX codec in templates

[odoggz]

Can someone help, or verify something for me, if you have X3 PRO and Windows 7? I have had X2 PRO working for a long time, using Divx 6.8 which I paid for, but now that I've upgraded to X3 PRO, there is no DIVX option there! If I view X2 and X3 side by side, X3 removed the option to make a DIVX avi file. What gives? What is the new trick, for X3 which will allow you to make DIVX FILES, which it advertised it could do..???

[Ron P.]

It seems that Corel has dropped support for outputting DivX. While you can import DivX files, it will no longer produce a DivX file.

Input Format Support:

* Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, DV, HDV™, DivX®, QuickTime®, RealVideo®, Windows Media® Format, MOD (JVC® MOD File Format), M2TS, M2T, TOD, 3GPP, 3GPP2
* Audio: Dolby® Digital Stereo, Dolby® Digital 5.1, MP3, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio
* Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, J2K, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSPImage, PXR, RAS, RAW, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WMF
* Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Output Format Support:

* Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, HDV, QuickTime, RealVideo, Windows Media Format, 3GPP, 3GPP2, FLV
* Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis
* Images: BMP, JPG
* Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, BD-R/RE

[odoggz]

It seems that Corel has dropped support for outputting DivX. While you can import DivX files, it will no longer produce a DivX file.

Input Format Support:

* Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, DV, HDV™, DivX®, QuickTime®, RealVideo®, Windows Media® Format, MOD (JVC® MOD File Format), M2TS, M2T, TOD, 3GPP, 3GPP2
* Audio: Dolby® Digital Stereo, Dolby® Digital 5.1, MP3, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio
* Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, J2K, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSPImage, PXR, RAS, RAW, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WMF
* Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Output Format Support:

* Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, HDV, QuickTime, RealVideo, Windows Media Format, 3GPP, 3GPP2, FLV
* Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis
* Images: BMP, JPG
* Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, BD-R/RE

Ah man.. that's just WRONG- and stupid I might add. I read it supported Divx, I didn't know that only meant you can import a Divx file. That's trash! PowerDirector still has this feature, in with Windows 7. I'm disappointed. I'm getting my money back!

[Ken Berry]

In another thread just yesterday, I was also discussing this. I have installed XVid separately on my computer, but am also the owner of DivX 7 Pro (and many of its predecessors). When you want to output to XVid in X3 (or X2 or earlier) you choose Share > Create Video File > Custom. Then you choose AVI as the output format. In the Options button, you go to Compression and I find the XVid codec at the bottom of the drop-down list, which you can then configure.

Though I have DivX 7 on the computer (which uses either the 6.8.5 or now the 6.9.1 codec), as you have found, it does not show up in X3 (though I could not get either to show up in X2 either...). X2 and its predecessors came with DivX 5.1.1 built in, and that always showed. So just as a test, I dropped in an old version of that codec, and it showed in X3! However, when I tried another version in the 6 series, that wiped 5.1.1 but would not show in X3.

So I guess that unless you are prepared to use XVid or the older DivX codec, that feature *has* indeed gone. Regrettable in these days of high definition -- and excellent -- DivX output in other programs.