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best video compressor

By ezromation | Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 3:43am
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Hi

I'm looking for a decent free video compressor I used to use Vid-X but it has stopped working, I wondered if any one here had any suggestions.
Thanks

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Submitted by wontobe on

There is a post, somewhere here, that gave a really good list of compressors.
I am racking my brain to think of a search word to find it but not luck so far.
There might be a good list on Wikipedia?

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Xvid H264 is the best one i have come across. its all i use for my HD or high quality outputs.

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Submitted by kevan on

It's not small or fancy, but a Quicktime movie with JPEG compression works on every computer, and if encoded properly allows you to step through without compression artifacts or hitches.

Great for small movie files like individual shots!

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Submitted by wontobe on

Is Vid-X and X-Vid the same codex?

Also, if Vid-X is no longer working, why not download another copy?

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Submitted by ezromation on

Thanks guys sounds like Xvid FTW

Quick time pro has been recomended to me many times.....but I think I have too much Scotish blood.

Just been messing around with compositing using an alpha channel and got it working with targa .tga files as my render output file type. I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations in terms of best image file type for render, I'm probably going for pal 720 by 580 as my resolution. I'm going to do some research but I would be grateful for your input being new to this field.

Thanks

Ezra

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Submitted by DSB on

H.264 is widely used, and an excellent codec. Great compression and very good image quality.

TGA files are great to work with - universally readable and good image quality.

720 x 580 is a non-standard resolution, but I'm wondering if that's just a typo. 720 x 480 is standard.

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Submitted by ezromation on

Yeah I should have written 780 576 I had it written on my pin board wrong even. dyslexia and computers dont mix :(

thanks for all the info I will check out the H.264 and if you fancy a look I will be posting up some renders to my blog late tomorrow (640 by 480 for U-tube) got a short snippet of teleport effect which is looking promising.

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Submitted by wontobe on

H.264 is widely used, and an excellent codex. Great compression and very good image quality.

I remember that there as a caveat to H.264, I just can not remember the details. I might have something to do with the compression, but I am not sure. I use a format that maintains the level of the video so I just stay with that. Quicktime, I think, I no longer check. I just push the button.

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Submitted by DSB on

I remember that there as a caveat to H.264, I just can not remember the details. I might have something to do with the compression, but I am not sure.

It's the compression used on DVDs and, I think, Blu-Ray. It's pretty widely used, and I've never had an issue with it.