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Encoder Options – AVI Format
This is sort of a followup to a post I made last week, but new thread since the question is different.
Output request is and AVI encoded with Matrox MPEG-2 I-Frame only codec or uncompressed AVI. From what I can tell, the only requirement is that it must be an AVI, since it’s going to be loaded into a Click Effects system for display on a stadium’s electronic billboard.
Matrox codecs are hardware locked, so I’m looking into exporting the AVI with MPEG Streamclip on my Mac. Is there a specific encoder I should favor or stray away from? Looking at Wikipedia, it appears the accepted encoders for AVI are MJPEG · Motion JPEG 2000 · MPEG-1 · MPEG-2 (Part 2) · MPEG-4 (Part 2/ASP · Part 10/AVC) · HVC.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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If they need i-frame only or uncompressed it’s for a reason and as such given them a LongGOP file (the other formats you list are all LongGOP except JPEG2000) is likely to be unacceptable.
It might be worth contacting Click Effects to see what they do support?
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Now that I look again on the Click Effects site, it looks like an Uncompressed AVI is preferrred, and AVI is the only accepted format.
What I didn’t realize is that AE on PC allows you to output an AVI (“Video for Windows”), while it’s not even an option for AE on a Mac. Since this project relies heavily on AE plugins, I’ll render out a QT Animation from AE on the Mac and use AE on the PC to transcode to Uncompressed AVI.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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You can export Uncompressed AVI out of Quicktime Pro 7 on a Mac.
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Nice. I saw that yesterday, but thought it was the equivalent of selecting “None” in FCP when outputting with QT conversion.
Good to know. Thanks Daniel.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
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‘None’ in this case means no compression, despite ‘CODEC’ meaning COmpression DEcompression, a ‘None CODEC’ is an uncompressed CODEC. Remember both AVI and Quicktime are just wrappers for CODECs.
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Right.
It makes sense that “None” is uncompressed, I was confusing it with the “Video” codec in FCP.
-Andrew Saliga
Steelehouse Productions
http://www.steelehouse.com (undergoing a much-needed redesign)
http://www.vimeo.com/steelehouse
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