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Posted by Bible John on 04/16/06 15:45
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1 Pet 3:15-But sanctify the Lord God[a] in your hearts, and always be ready
to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in
you, with meekness and fear
CERM-Church Education Resource Ministries
Founder and director
http://johnw.freeshell.org/bible
<zwsdotcom@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Bible John wrote:
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>> Why do you claim that .asf is good?
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> Er... where exactly do you see me claiming this? The only thing I said
> about it was that it's hard to work with on a Mac.
Try VLC it works for me. How do these videos look on your machine? I'll bet
they do not look much better than the videos the Zire 72 produces, whcih are
great for web videos, but horrible for anything else.
http://johnw.freeshell.org/bible/movies/Golden%20Gate.asf
Go to my video page and download the Golden Gate bridge video.
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> ASF is a container file format, like AVI. It says nothing about the
> quality of the contents - that's set by the codec and bit rate. In the
> case of the VGA-resolution output from this particular camera, it
> happens to be MPEG-4 at approximately 176kbps (plus about 40kbps for
> the audio stream).
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> After recording out to VHS tape, I suspect you could not tell much
> difference between a VGA-resolution MPEG-4 stream and a DV source,
> depending on the subject matter of course. (I don't have any analog
> equipment here, so I can't test this. I have, however, put the camera
> on my TV and observed the quality there. As you'd expect, the low bit
> rate leads to significantly worse artifacts in scenes with
> high-frequency components, particularly low light scenes).
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> In my case, the convenience of immediate access and not needing to futz
> about with huge files, Firewire transfers and transcoding, is worth
> spending $100 for this camera. If I was making something that I wanted
> to look more professional, I'd use MiniDV for editability and
> distribute the finished product on DVD (or as MPEG-4 AVIs if this was
> for online use).
>
> I think pretty much by definition, any video that's going to be written
> out to VHS tape on consumer equipment qualifies as "quick snap quality"
> though.
>
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