Any suggestions of a video file format to use whilst undergoing the editing process after having passed video through mjpegtools? I know a raw format is ideal, but I'm not looking at broadcast quality source material so something that does compresses a little with a small to moderate amount of compression would be good. I'm wanting to keep video and sound together.
Basically I've been taking raw video from both a capture card and also video from a DV camcorder, processing them to clean them up a little with mjpegtools and as the last stage using this: <mjpeg stuff> |mpeg2enc -f 8 -4 2 -2 1 -F 3 -q 8 -o video/$1.m1v I've then either passed this to devedee or edited in kdenlive and passed to devedee, after multiplexing the soundtrack back onto the file. Now, I thought this would be the right format for DVD but devede re-encodes. When editing with kdenlive it always re-encode the stream anyway (obvious if you think about it). So perhaps an exactly DVD compatible format is unecessary. What format do people suggest? On a similar subject I've rendered some credits using a script and povray to multiple ppm files appended to a single file and have turned them into an mpeg with the following: ppmtoy4m -o 1 -F 25:1 -I t -L -S 420mpeg2 fr.ppm | mpeg2enc -q 4 -H -f 8 -4 1 -2 1 -o test.mpg but there are obvious artifacts around the text. Any suggestions or am I expecting too much of compressed mpeg video? BTW - thanks to all in the mjpeg community. I've passed some home camcorder video taken in relatively low light through mjpegtools and it looks great played back on my TV - I've managed to get rid of a lot of the noise that was obvious on the raw video. Pete -- Peter Chant http://www.petezilla.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
