Forum: Animation


Subject: Codecs and broadcast

maul opened this issue on Jul 13, 2001 ยท 5 posts


maul posted Fri, 13 July 2001 at 11:11 AM

I have an animation which I have finally put together in Ulead Video Studio 4.0. I want to render it with the best quality codec I can use. The specifics of my situation are as follows: I may need it to be broadcast ready, which I have never done. Also...are there any programs available that will allow me to burn it to a DVD format? My screen sizes are 720 x 486, which I understand to be standard broadcast size. Can anyone help this first timer out please?


davidm posted Sat, 14 July 2001 at 8:14 AM

Attached Link: http://www.tmpgenc.com/

You may want to check out TMPGEnc. It lets you create both MPEG1 and MPEG2 movie files, but I believe you have to register it to use MPEG2 after the evaluation period runs out. I use it for creating MPEG1 files from uncompressed AVI's and it works great! :-) Dave

fedtmule posted Mon, 06 August 2001 at 10:46 AM

Hi Dave I have problems with TMPGEnc, could you help ? (Please see my post in this forum) Hi from Tom


davidm posted Mon, 06 August 2001 at 11:13 AM

Hi Tom! Think I can help you here buddy! As long as you keep ALL the separate AVI movies in the same format, (Codec, frames per second, size and soundtrack format), you can edit them together and create a NEW AVI with DDCLip from SoftLab NSK. The full retail program is excellent, but they also have a FREE early version of their program at the following URL: http://www.softlab-nsk.com/ddclipro/free.html The great thing is that it's really easy to use and you can mix soundtracks too. Enjoy! Dave.


fedtmule posted Mon, 06 August 2001 at 1:49 PM

Hi Dave Many thanks for your reply :) I downloaded the program and 15 sec after I had combined the two avis !!!!! I so gratefull for your advice :) Thanks again :) Hi from Tom