Author Topic: MPEG-2 quality settings (Read 392 times)

soda72 · « **on:** October 09, 2005, 08:44:53 PM »

Anyone use Sony vegas movie studio or the mpeg plug-ins for sony sound forge? What video quality settings do you find work best?

o0Stream140o · « **Reply #1 on:** October 09, 2005, 09:17:45 PM »

This is made with MPEG-2 settings defaulted.
http://www.ahvirtualcinema.com/xtreme_race.mpg

This one is made with Divx
http://www.ahvirtualcinema.com/xtreme_race.avi

soda72 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 09, 2005, 10:02:45 PM »

Thanks Stream...

I don't understand the codecs all that well either...

Whats interesting, is if I play the mpg on my xp machine where I haven't installed the divx codec, the colors look decent on the mpg. When I play the mpg on my win 2000 machine that had the divx codec installed the colors look all messed up.

I was more interested in the settings when building the mpg file..

The only setting that seem self explanatory is the video quality setting....

low or high ... why can't it all be that easy..

I have a uncompressed AVI that I would like to covert to a mpeg-2 file.. The compression works pretty good just using defaults but I was curious if better results could be obtained by understanding the addtional params...

o0Stream140o · « **Reply #3 on:** October 09, 2005, 10:06:50 PM »

is this an ah vid? If so did you record it in fraps?

The settings I had:

soda72 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 09, 2005, 10:10:18 PM »

yeah,

Its from an AH film... I used their Save as AVI option... slow but it works.. Video quality is pretty good... I don't know much about Fraps....

o0Stream140o · « **Reply #5 on:** October 09, 2005, 10:13:27 PM »

Try to set it to 12 fps, then when you do your render in Sony up it to 24 fps.

soda72 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 09, 2005, 11:12:44 PM »

Thanks for the info Stream...