Posted: 4/21/2013 3:19 PM
Post subject: What windows movie editor gets good quality?
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Brock_Lee
Joined: 4/18/2013
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I made a tas run of Metal Slug from the FBA Neo Geo emulator. The AVI of the original video looks great full Screen but after I trimmed it it WIndows Movie maker the quality looks terrible full screened. Small screen, its fine, but full screen is awful. Is there a free program that could get better quality? Or is there another way with movie maker?
Posted: 4/21/2013 3:52 PM
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jlun2
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What do you mean by trim?
LLCoolDave wrote:
This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 4/21/2013 4:23 PM
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YoungJ1997lol
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What kind of computer are you using?
So yea, how's it going? Currently TASing: Nothing
Posted: 4/21/2013 7:07 PM
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nesrocks
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virtualdub. work with lossless codecs until you're ready to do the final encode if you want the best quality.
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Posted: 4/21/2013 8:53 PM
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Warp
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It's not so much a question of which video editor you are using, but which video codec. (Unless your video editor does not support third-party codecs, of course.) You need an editor or encoder that supports standard codecs (such as VirtualDub), a good codec (usually something supporting h.264) and then you need to set up the encoding parameters of said codec appropriately for the desired quality/size (and, if you want, encoding speed) ratio. Which codecs and which settings is a quite complex subject, and I think there's some page somewhere around here giving more details.
Posted: 4/30/2013 12:02 PM
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moozooh
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Any video editor that doesn't force a particular combination of encoding options "gets" good quality. You just have to choose wisely.
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