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Mpeg streamclip rendering animations12/12/2023 ![]() The major one being that if the system or Blender crashes halfway through the three hour render (and that’s not a big render in the scheme of things), you don’t lose everything. Masterhoshi Rendering to images is actually recommended for a host of reasons for bigger animations. Does it allow any manipulation of the audio, like shifting it around for sync? Can multiple video tracks be added and can any effects be added (fade in/out, cross-fade etc)? Is the transcoder a GUI app or command line? Any link for it?īischofftep I want to read a bit more about using QT Pro though it’s looking like the best solution. I looked for VLC transcoder but all i find is VLC Player. ![]() It’s very buggy with some features (add audio) just not working. Kattkieru Yes, I’ve read so many amazing things about ffmpegx but to date I’ve found it completely useless for anything at all. Even if it was, I’d still have to post-process to add the audio and would be where I’m at now. Rocketman: As far as I know (looking at Xvid site) Xvid is not for Mac and AVI codec is not an option in Blendermac. It’s looking like QT-Pro is the most viable answer. I just want to get my Blender output combined with audio then output to an acceptable size. I really could use some pointers on producing an acceptable, sharable output of modest size on anything that will work reliably and relatively easily in OSX Panther (10.3.9). (The “simply drop a file, choose a format then press go” thing never works - ever.) The whole interface and barely explained variety of options leaves me feeling somewhat inadequate. I either get a video file with no audio track or the encoding fails for any of a host of reasons, none of which mean anything to an ignoramus like me. I have a copy of ffmpegx (OS X GUI for ffmpeg) but quite frankly, it just doesn’t work. I’ve reduced the image size to 180x320px but it’s still too big. I’ve tried a variety of compression options using Quicktime output but can’t get the file below 29Mb even on low quality (There a re more to try but it’s getting frustrating now). The inbulit AVI output option insists on a standard image ratio which might be okay except I rendered a tall thin video, not a short wide one None of the available options in HyperEngine seem to solve the filesize dilemma satisfactorily. This leaves me with a 70Mb file and this is where things get depressing (again - I knew it would happen) I took this video into HyperEngine AV to combine with the audio track and output to MOV again. I rendered to PNG files, then re-rendered to Quicktime from the Sequencer. Since I started this project before I read Steve's book is there a way that I can just use the media that I already imported and save it as a new project on my external hard drive - or do I need to start over completely and import all of my media again? I had already edited out the footage that she did not want so I would need to do all this over again if I can't just save it all as a new project (already edited) to the external hard drive.I’ve finally produced something resembling a complete animation (a little over a minute) and despite a few weird artifacts it’s quite acceptable. IS there a better way to determine the file type than what I did? I would ahve thought that the files would have shown as AVCHD - as a DV AVI files shows up as DV AVI.Īlso, I am now going to have to use my external hard drive for this project since I do not have the 100GB space available on my computer. I was planning to do it on wide screen format but that might be another challenge better to forgo. I apologize for not even knowing what media I am using but it is my first encounter with high definition. I am not usually a quitter (It might be better if I was) but before I spend a lot of time frustrated could you tell me if I have bit off more than I can chew and this is not the best project to start with? I think I could get this done if I could use the files I have imported - but Steve recommends using DV AVI for quality which means I need to convert them. If Steamclip can not do this what would be the best way to do this for a beginner? I assume that they are AVCHD - they show up on my computer as MTS and when I Google that it tells me that they are AVCHD. I have done about 30 movies but all using the DV AVI format files and in Movie Maker and Sonic. Anyway, now I think I might not be able to complete this project for her. The files did come into Premiere Elements 7 but as one file - (I wondered why this was until I read Steve's book which explained this). I offered to make a DVD for a friend before I relized that it is in high definition. I didn't want to download the program if it won't work for what I am doing. It also looks like (from reading the READ ME FIRST doc) that I need to remove QuickTime and install a QuickTime alternative. Can you advise if MPEG Streamclip can convert AVCHD files? It appears that it does not.
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