Hi All

When in the rendering box if you select Mpeg4 you have a choice of using 200K to 12000K , this is the same for other choice ( Xvid4 - h364 ) ect what does this mean and how do you decide which one to use ?.

Thanks Godwit

 

 

This is the bitrate of the resulting video.

For more information than you might care for, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitrate#Bitrates_in_multimedia

Basically, the higher bitrate, the better quality (until you reach the bitrate of your source material), but at the expense of a larger resulting file/stream.

Regards

Mads

Hi madsdyd

Thanks for the reply

i will have a look at different bit rates and see what i can go up to, in the mean time if any body knows the bit rate of a canon HV20 camcorder let me know .

thanks godwit

The Canon HV20 prodices 25Mb mpeg2. So exporting to 20Mb Mpeg4 or H264 seems a good solution to preserve quality. In a near future we will offer lossless compression in h264, snow (already here) and DIRAC. So stay tuned.

I'd like to piggyback on the original question about how to figure out what rendering options are best for my camera. Is there a mathematical ratio you use to determine the best optimizaton between 200k and 12000k, for example? I wasn't clear on the response in this thread.

Sometimes, I use the video on my digital still camera (Nikon Coolpix L3). This is very low quality, as you can imagine--640X480 at 30 fps. When rendering, I use mpeg-2 at 200K because I don't know if there's a better option. Any suggestions?

Thank you.