V4 and Windows Media 9

matt24671 wrote on 2/5/2003, 8:38 AM
Perusing some Windows web pages I found out about some pretty exciting new capaibilities using Windows Media 9 and the forthcoming Windows Movie Maker 2.

(See:http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/wmm2.asp)

One of the capabilties is a vastly increase ability to compress video to oje tenth the space with little quality loss.

Does V4 accomodate these features?

Comments

SonyTSW wrote on 2/5/2003, 9:26 AM
Yes, there are additional audio and video compression options in the new Windows Media 9 file format plugin in the Vegas 4 release. As this plugin was under development at the time of the V4 beta release, the beta supported only CBR (constant bit rate) for audio and video.

The new Windows Media 9 plugin in the Vegas 4 final release will also support VBR (variable bit rate) for both audio and video. In the release, you'll find options for the following:

audio - CBR, quality-based VBR
video - CBR, two-pass CBR, quality VBR, bit rate VBR

Also there is support for rendering the audio stream in surround projects to 5.1 (both WMA and WMV support this).
mikkie wrote on 2/5/2003, 1:47 PM
Cool!

Now, how 'bout an encore with DVDA? I haven't seen/tried this, but just read about it the other day...

Sonic's products (including their sdk) accept winmedia 9 and some media (HighMAT?) projects (specifically so far the photo slide shows created using the new digital media plus pack for win xp).

Will DVDA (even eventually) be able to accept the import of any of this stuff?

mike
TorS wrote on 2/5/2003, 4:57 PM
This is way off topic. Hope no one minds.

First I looked at your signature Matt24671 and thought it looked like a Bible reference. So I looked up Matt 24 to see if I could sort it out - blow your cover so to speak. Didn't find anything conclusive. I used my Revised English Bible (The Norwegian ones were upstairs) and it has section headings. The section starting with Matt 24 is called Warnings about the end. Then I remembered: You were the one who started the thread: "It's all over, folks" some weeks ago.
That is what I would call a warning about the end. Fortunately you're not a prophet, it wasn't all over after all, but you had me going, for a while.

Well, it's midnight here now. That's one kind of end, too. And a beginning.

Peace.
Tor