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What compression should I use for archiving VHS tapes to HDD?
What do you recommended for capturing VHS for archiving on a HDD? Will DV PAL codec do? H264 at high quality? (I'm PAL over here btw). I want to retain the quality, but at the same time I don't want ...
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poor quality export of still images from premiere
This is the actual source image to a video track in Premiere (a PNG):
With no resizing whatsoever, and .flv output, this is a resultant frame from the exported video:
How could I improve the ...
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Adobe After Effects MP4 Export Issue
I'm trying to export a composition from Adobe After Effects. My Comp is 1280x720, and ideally I'd export with an mp4 container, and h264 video codec. Problem is, After Effects is giving me a PAR ...
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What codec will my Youtube uploads be output in and what codec should I use to upload?
Related to What codecs/formats are appropriate for full motion video recording for youtube? I'm wondering exactly how I can expect Youtube to handle my videos. I know they have a rather zealous ...
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What codecs/formats are appropriate for full motion video recording for youtube?
I'm recording video game footage via lossless methods, after which I need to compress them and upload them to youtube. I'm not sure which format and/or codecs are best for this. I've been ...
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I changed the .mp4 extension of my video to .mpg and it still opens and plays fine (in VLC and in Windows Media Player). Why is this so?
I'm uploading a file to an external system that accepts only mpg or mpeg extension files. I had a mp4 file so I changed the mp4 extension to mpg and I was able to upload the file into the system. ...
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Determining streaming container format
I'm completely new to video/audio formats, containers, and protocols. However, I have to figure out how to decode a bitstream that contains audio and video. I do not know the transport protocol, ...
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What video codecs can provide “adaptive quality”?
Background:
I am trying to compress lossless bluray tracks to a more storage friendly size without a huge loss in quality.
What I've been doing thus far:
Exploring compression options with ffmpeg. ...
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Automatic conversion/encode video for Video On Demand streaming
I need an automatic solution to convert video clips for html5 (mp4/x264, webm/vp8) and flash (mp4/x264) video-on-demand streaming. For a site like Youtube, just much smaller.
The input files are ...
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How to figure out video format by video sample?
I have a video file (30Mb) in some unknown format, hex dump of its header looks like this:
0000000 78 55 52 30 09 10 02 0a 00 00 09 09 22 93 00 39
0000020 00 00 00 00 bd 09 ...
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Which decoder allows for fast seeking or how to configure k-lite codec pack?
I am using mostly Haaly Media Splitter for input and ffdshow for decoding (libavcodec).
Actually I am ok with the default profile 7 installation of k-lite codec pack.
At the moment I have the default ...
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What could be causing these strange MP4 video playback corruptions on some machines?
(Note: the video is a screencast hence the desktop icons, that's not actually the desktop of the machine having the error.)
We are using JWPlayer, and we rarely have this issue, but on it is ...
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Very Good Free Lossless/Lossy Video Encoding For Editing on Windows 7 (regarding fraps recordings)
I am looking for a very good method to encode video recorded with fraps in 1080p into an intermediate format which I can edit in Avid Studio. Most video files load up into Avid, as far as I know, but ...
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Best Lossless Video Encoder For Editing
I'm looking for a good video encoder to compress HD files for editing within Sony Vegas Pro and Adobe After Effects.
What video codec would provide the fastest possible encoding and decoding? Also, ...
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The ProRes of Premiere Pro?
I'm going to be editing more and more DSLR videos, most notably music videos for my band as we start releasing singles and want to know if there is an intermediate format for both cutting and ...
