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Posted by ronnie bell on 03/20/07 04:26
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:35:31 GMT, "bgd" <bgd73@verizon.net> wrote:
> For years uts been Avi, the standard mpeg, and on and on for video on my
>pc. It has looked horrible on my pc since the beginning.
>Upon a video with great quality on the web (even bigger surprise)
>I could not figure out what type it was.
>I searched and concluded it was some type of mpeg4, no doubt converted from
>a mac type source. It was just like watching TV, or a dvd.
>any advice? Exact type of mpeg 4?
>I have watched .mov quicktime mac files and they are very good too.
>
>My plan is firewire card on my win based pc and a DV camera. The confusion
>is whether to go with a digital camcorder cheaply, that does mpeg4 encoding
>on its own, or the better DV.
>
> I am just beyond noob, and still don't know enough.
>
>Highly opinionated replies would be great ;o)
>
Well I'm just 2 steps beyond a noob myself but here's my 2 cents
worth.
AVI is the BEST. It is uncompressed frame by frame video.
ANYTHING else has less quality.
MPEG, whether 2 or 4 is compressed. WMV is also compressed but seems
to suffer a little less than some compression schemes with respect to
picture quality. Oh yea, there's DIVX, another compressed stream.
And of course the MOV you mentioned then the flash compressed youtoob
CRAP. it's watchable in a TWO INCH window - lol.
I do all my work on AVI's captured from a digital camera via firewire
then edit in vegas and render as an mpeg2 for dvd burning.
That's all i know.
r.b.
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