Converting .AVI files

[Paxan_1]

I've usually stuck with freeware but at the time I couldn't find anything that handled AVCHD well.

 

Yeah i know, AVCHD is always a problem. My brother in law bought a Panasonic 1080p Camcorder i tried to find a nice and easy editing tool. At the end he spend over 100£ for the software.

I'm happy the freeware and if WMV won't work, i have the DivX one which is given to me for free by my mobile producer. Thought i give it a try if you guys use it :laugh:

[JimboUK]

I've usually stuck with freeware but at the time I couldn't find anything that handled AVCHD well.

 

Yeah i know, AVCHD is always a problem. My brother in law bought a Panasonic 1080p Camcorder i tried to find a nice and easy editing tool. At the end he spend over 100£ for the software.

I'm happy the freeware and if WMV won't work, i have the DivX one which is given to me for free by my mobile producer. Thought i give it a try if you guys use it :laugh:

 

You have to add on the cost of the huge memory cards as well, the camera is only part of the expense. I wouldn't have bought it but I had two Sony Handycams fail within a week of each other, neither was under warranty. I'm glad I did though, the picture quality is really good, it can get a bit noisy under very low light but PD can lessen that.

[Paxan_1]

You have to add on the cost of the huge memory cards as well, the camera is only part of the expense. I wouldn't have bought it but I had two Sony Handycams fail within a week of each other, neither was under warranty. I'm glad I did though, the picture quality is really good, it can get a bit noisy under very low light but PD can lessen that.

 

Hehe, you are right. That's why i always have to buy the 16GB cards in Germany, they cost only a bunch of the price you have to pay in GB.

The camcorder is really great, they bought it because of their baby (my niece). The program they bought is a really easy to use one, but i don't know the name atm... :whistling:

[JimboUK]

The SD cards seem to have come down a little in price here, maybe our currency is picking up. £22.49 for a 16Gb Panasonic class 4 now, it was a fair bit more than that not so long ago. Shame about the MicroSD, I want a 16GB MicroSD class 6 for my phone but they are £40-£50. :verymad:

[Thor.]

There's a 32gb pro duo on new egg for a decent price, its cheaper then the rest of them.

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191274&cm_re=pro_duo_32gb-_-20-191-274-_-Product

 

also here is a sd card, around 32gb, price $79.99.

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820183273&cm_re=32gb_sd-_-20-183-273-_-Product

 

newegg.ca or com is awesome for finding deals on small items like that :thumbsup: .

 

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Oh i have a question is there a decent program that would clean up video from a bad fraps video, its kind of pixelated, any idea's, it would be cool to clean some of it up so i don't have to trash it.

[JimboUK]

There's a 32gb pro duo on new egg for a decent price, its cheaper then the rest of them.

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191274&cm_re=pro_duo_32gb-_-20-191-274-_-Product

 

also here is a sd card, around 32gb, price $79.99.

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820183273&cm_re=32gb_sd-_-20-183-273-_-Product

 

newegg.ca or com is awesome for finding deals on small items like that :thumbsup: .

 

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Oh i have a question is there a decent program that would clean up video from a bad fraps video, its kind of pixelated, any idea's, it would be cool to clean some of it up so i don't have to trash it.

 

They don't ship overseas though. :(

[TheTerminator2004]

In my experience, Windows Media Player lacks the features and support of many other media players. It's fine for just watching the odd music video or something, but for anything more than that, it's pretty useless. It has terrible codec support, and pretty much no advanced features - no subtitle support, no way to deal with files containing multiple video or audio tracks (for example, a film with the soundtrack in multiple languages), no deinterlacing, or postprocessing, no filters (such as sharpening), and no syncronising tools (for fixing problems where the audio is not synched correctly to the video).

 

I generally use VLC for videos, which has been able to handle pretty much everything I've thrown at it so far. I highly recommend it.

 

As for software for converting video... I quite like XVID4PSP. It's freeware, and is pretty powerful - but it is pretty unstable, and you do need to have a decent understanding of video formats to use it to its full potential. It refuses to work on my new PC (just crashes), but on my old one I used to use it regularly for converting films to watch on my phone. I regularly used it to convert HD films (in an mkv file usually) several gigabytes big from their original format, down to a 300x200 3gp file which my phone could play perfectly (and was only around 500mb tops for a feature-length film). It can be a pain to get it to do exactly what you want, but it is very powerful.

[Thor.]

Finally someone understands woot, why use Media player???? when there is something better out there.

 

Saves you the trouble of installing that codec???

[Paxan_1]

Finally someone understands woot, why use Media player???? when there is something better out there.

 

Saves you the trouble of installing that codec???

 

Hmmm, there is a easy answer why i use it sometimes. It is installed with Windows :whistling:

The second thing is if you are using the Mediacenter you have to use the Mediaplayer with it.

 

But of course there are others out there which can do it better.

[Thor.]

lol media center was considered fazed out in Canada

 

http://thegreenbutton.com/blogs/pnear/archive/2008/09/04/290827.aspx Well now that windows 7 has it integrated its ok now.

 

and there is a better media server out there.

 

Still this ones better, uses less memory and transcodes faster.

 

http://tversity.com/download/