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Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: Dlitz on February 24, 2005, 07:44:53 AM

Could some of you accomplished film makers out there shed some light on what you think the best way to convert a AH film to AVI.Meaning ,what codec ect you use to compress .I am trying to do some film editing using Ulead studio 8 and it seems very picky to what codec it can read .Thanks
                     
                                                                    Dlitz

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: Zaphod on February 24, 2005, 11:55:09 AM

There is an option in the film viewer itself to convert the .ahf to .avi.  Its a button near the top right corner I think.  You can also use a third party program.  I use Fraps.  Basically I run Fraps in the background while viewing my film and manipulating the views.  Fraps captures whatever is on the screen as it's happening meaning that if I go to external view ect the film the .avi version will show that.  The video that fraps captures is in .avi format.  I can then edit the avi file.  I think you pretty much have to convert the .ahf to .avi to edit it in about any editor.  

Zaphod

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: Skuzzy on February 24, 2005, 05:31:22 PM

The CODEC to use which garantees anyone with a Windows based computer can play it, is the "Cinepak Codec by Radius".

This CODEC has been shipped with every version of Windows since Windows 95.

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: Dlitz on February 24, 2005, 05:51:01 PM

thank you Skuzzy

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: ALF on February 24, 2005, 09:00:32 PM

If that codec isnt working for you, and your concerned about compatability, use a standard MPEG 2 compression....since mpeg is a standard its pretty solid....I found radius to be very slow....and big

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: Dlitz on February 25, 2005, 02:05:25 PM

Thanks ALF Radius does seem to take forever.It works though.Which one of the codecs in the drop down list is Mpeg 2 format.Please excuse my ignorance Im learning as I go. Thanks for your reply
                                                                                      Dlitz

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: sb1086 on February 27, 2005, 04:24:31 PM

THe new Windows Media plaler 10 will play it, and I think if you chose the save file option, it asks what format you want to save it in.

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: o0Stream140o on February 27, 2005, 07:05:51 PM

This might help you out...

http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperGraph/video/codecs/Default.htm

Title: AH Film to AVI ?
Post by: Dlitz on February 27, 2005, 09:14:55 PM

Thank you Stream .Ive got some reading to catch up on now I see