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Marco. wrote on 4/25/2007, 12:39 AM
Moyea has very good ones:

http://www.moyea.com

Also Swish:

http://www.swishzone.com/index.php?area=products&product=video

Marco
alltheseworlds wrote on 4/25/2007, 1:54 AM
My preference order is:

On2
Sorenson

Then a long way after that, Flash Pro

Anything after that will be inferior imho.
seanfl wrote on 4/25/2007, 8:41 AM
on2 has a very reasonable Flix standard for near $40 (doesn't do 2 pass) but it still is superior to most in my mind. I bought flix pro and have been very impressed.

http://www.on2.com/consumer/flixstandard/?sid=JJI8-5JPD-4612af29defed&ref=

by the way, how can I make my link above clickable like the gentleman up above? I did it in the past and now it's not working the same. could be some dead brain cells on my end.

Sean
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Soniclight wrote on 4/25/2007, 12:44 PM
As far as Flash codecs (I'm talking for someone like me on limited budget but wanting quality anyway :), I spent alot of time searching this forum and finally chose what was suggested above: On2's Standard Flix 8. Note that Adobe now uses On2 for its codece -- that says something right there.

As far as links and other forum mark-ups, see page below and scroll down to the Links, Images and Videos part: Links are simple: just put URL inside of: -- left-bracket, link equals, right bracket. You'll see what I mean there.

http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=521496&Replies=0
seanfl wrote on 4/25/2007, 3:27 PM
thanks Sonic...I was using an old way to show links and it stopped working...that reference worked perfectly.


Sean
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totally lost wrote on 4/25/2007, 6:11 PM
So how are guys encoding to get good results?

I currently render m2t files to Cineform avi and then use flix pro 512k broadband flv, 490 x 272 , framerate 30, key frame settings fixed 300, 2 pass, max bit rate 464, VP6 Quality best, sharpness 10, deinterlace, and sometimes I bump up brightness and contrast.

I tried dv widescreen last night and it looked ok. Whats' the best settings to render dv widescreen? I may have done it wrong. it looks ok but much softer than the Cineform /flash render.

WMV looks softer still. Again what is the best settings for a wmv render? datarate wise is 3 Mbs the max? Should I change the aspect ratio?

.mov looked about the same a wmv. a little blocky and washed out.

Please advise I am really up against a wall w/ On2 chopping my Cineform avi's RANDOMLY! ugh. I need a better more reliable way. The failures are killing my work flow. Please help!
Laurence wrote on 4/25/2007, 7:44 PM
Make sure you use the Flix Pro deinterlace feature with 1080i footage. You always want to make sure Flash is deinterlaced. Also, I'd use a two pass render for anything that isn't streaming. Remember that If you put it up on the Internet yourself, it's a progressive download, not streaming. If you haven't hired a streaming service, you're using progressive download and a two pass render will look better.