Schematic of Media Conversions?

Grazie wrote on 11/22/2004, 2:45 AM
Ok .. How would a really nice person like to prepare a simple conversion chart or pictorial of ALL the media and ALL the CODEC and formats available? It could include CODEC; Time; space; quality values e.g. sample stills? . . Anybody up to the challenge?

Once done we should have Sony or one of the Website owners "host" this - what I think, invaluable, educative tool for Newbies and for those - me - who are more prone to Senior moments as I get . . er .. older?

So, when we get a question of this type in the future we can all - in Unison - cry "Number 87!" . . and that'll be that . yeah?

Well?

Grazie

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 11/22/2004, 5:11 AM
87? Is this another one of those grasshopper things? ;)

VegasUsers.com would be happy to host it. I'm not sure i've got the complete technical info to prepare everything though. Community project? Have volunteers all take on a certain codec they know well and we come up with a standard .veg file and source clip for them to work from. Hmmmmmmmm. Sounds doable.
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/22/2004, 5:14 AM
It's been done, Grazie. Adam Wilt had it up for the longest time, til he changed his website. I hope he puts it back up. But there are several sites with still comparisons of various codecs. When Vegas 3 came out with it's own codec, we had one of all the majors. I mean, it didn't have ALL the formats, as that would be ridiculously huge, no way to side by side compare at that point. Windows media, Quicktime, Real, MPEG 4 at each common bitrate alone would be past silly, and no matter how you did it, you'd have people bitching that you didn't use tool XYZ so your results are therefore skewed. I'm dealing with that right now on an HDV comparison that is an internal thing, and that's only localized, not for the general world!
God bless the soul strong enough to deal with THAT kind of nasty.
[edit] just saw Kelly's post after I'd posted this.
With multiple people involved, you couldn't trust the test. It's like our test render veg, common veg, common instructions. But yet people screw with the output options and then make all sorts of claims. One guy claimed a 47 second render. No way on God's green earth did he do a 47 second render with that media. Turns out he rendered to draft, 320 x 480 instead of the default render of NTSC DV, set to GOOD like the instructions say to do on both the webpage and on the Summary of the project.[edit]
nickle wrote on 11/22/2004, 11:37 AM
I'm really glad I read this.

I had the rendertest on my pc and didn't see (or remember) any instructions and I had been using the "best" setting.
"Good" dropped my time from 2min50secs to 2min 2 seconds.
I can live with that and now I don't have to buy a Pentium4.