MiamiBoii4392 Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 What program do you use for editing your videos? i want mine to be in mpg format, is there a converter for these WMV files?
robbalvey Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 I use Adobe Premiere 6.5 to edit video and a plug in called "Panasonic MPEG Compressor" to make them into MPG files. --Robb
MiamiBoii4392 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Posted March 12, 2006 Oh, okay thanks. Plugin for what program?
Homer Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 ^ Adobe Premiere 6.5 Also, I would suggest looking around download.com for a plugin. Usually, anything on that site is a demo version of a program. BUT, you can find a freeware version on there if you're lucky.
MiamiBoii4392 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Posted March 12, 2006 Well, I did find the full version of Adobe Premiere 7.0, I had to get it through a program called "Bearshare". Go to www.bearshare.com/lite and you can download music through it too.
benzo41190 Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 I have a question though about Adobe Premeir. I got it, made a video, now what format should I make it into so i can get the best quality video, for a DVD. I tried Microsoft DV-AVI and got bad results Microsost AVI- bad DV AVI PAL- Bad DV AVI NTSC- Bad Quicktime- Great, but 5 Gigs What do you use to make it a good DVD format?
MiamiBoii4392 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Posted March 12, 2006 How did you even make the video, that program is so complicated, can you tell me how you made it? When i place a song in the timeline and a clip, then i play it, and the clip speeds up, why does it do that?
darklingscribe Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 I have a question though about Adobe Premeir. I got it, made a video, now what format should I make it into so i can get the best quality video, for a DVD. I tried Microsoft DV-AVI and got bad results Microsost AVI- bad DV AVI PAL- Bad DV AVI NTSC- Bad Quicktime- Great, but 5 Gigs What do you use to make it a good DVD format? Most, if not all, DVDs need to be in the mpeg2 format to play on regular DVD players. My Quicktime compression options allow me to choose the quality of both the picture and the sound, try to fiddle around with the settings to find a quality that your happy with that is about 4.5 Gigs. If you don't want to do that (or can't) Check to see if your computer has the ability to burn a dual layer DVD. You can fit about 8 Gigs onto one of those. How long is the video you want to put on the DVD? My bare bones DVD burning program can only fit about 2hrs on to a dual layer disk. I don't have Adobe Premeir but I do have Adobe After Effects which probably has the same compression programs. If you can when choosing among output setting click on custom, choose quicktime movie and click on format options. Under compression type there are a couple of good choices, Try H.264 and Sorenson (if you have them) and see which one you like the best. Also under compression type on that same screen there should be a bar marked Quality you can fool around with. The lower the quality the smaller the video size. you can also make the video file smaller by switching the depth from Millions of colors to thousands of colors but again you are loosing some of the picture's brillance. I try to post later with screen pics.
darklingscribe Posted March 12, 2006 Posted March 12, 2006 Here are some screens. I could totally be wrong about the compression program in After Effects and Premeir being the same but I figure that since Adobe made both programs to compliment one another they should be similar. Also your screens will look somewhat different than mine because I'm running my editing stuff on a Mac not a PC. Remember before doing all of this to look at what kind of video files your DVD burnig program accepts. (my bare bones one only allows the miniDV format NTSC to be imported) Try out H.264 (I think it's the same codec apple uses for their itunes videos) and either Sorenson (it was considered the best codec before H.264 came out). Also try the DVCPRO50 - NTSC format if your DVD burning program is restricted to only NTSC video. Click on compression type scroll bar. Also choose your quality and depth. Choose quicktime (it offers the best picture quality in my opinion) and click format options. Also don't forget to make sure you audio export is checked as well. Click on custom if you can find it.
benzo41190 Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 they are not the same. I saw Sorenson Video, but not Sorenson video3. I also saw H262 and H263 but not H264. I am trying Sorenson Video, but how many frames per second should I have. Right now it is on 30.
darklingscribe Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 I'd say experiment, when you drop frames you risk making the video feel jittery but you can get away with some frame dropping without much visual change. By the way how old is your program? I got After Effects in september of 2005 brand new. Both the H.264 and Sorenson 3 codecs aren't even a year old so you may have to look for plugins. If you don't mind the jittery look some people prefer to drop the frames to 15 per second it makes it feel more even, instead of every one out of three frame beeing dropped, every other frame will be dropped.
benzo41190 Posted March 13, 2006 Posted March 13, 2006 I have Adobe Premeir Pro 1.5. It was the cheapest one out there that was still somewhat good.
SFOGdude25 Posted March 14, 2006 Posted March 14, 2006 I use Showbiz Wizard. It's really good. You can make a DVD that lasts up to 2 hr. long. The quality of the DVDs Is NOT distorted at all!
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