Forum - Tips & Tricks - What codec do you use and why?

Forum - Tips & Tricks - What codec do you use and why? - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Forum - Tips & Tricks - What codec do you use and why? - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:36:18 GMT Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:36:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from gimmick http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic491-xvid.aspx

Note that some codec like Cinepak doesn't exist for 64bits version
edited by gimmick on 08/03/2012]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:36:18 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Luscan
To get more codecs onto your computer download the k-lite codec pack from www.free-codecs.com/k_lite_codec_pack_download.htm - you probably want the 'basic' version that's listed at the top of the page. That should install more codecs to your Muvizu.

Enjoy.]]> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:33:01 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from ziggy72
Didn't work either. Although the MS codec looked okay, on closer inspection it's only 16 bit colour, and looks a bit horrible for my purposes. So I thought, Sod It, that Glasgow Jim fella seems pretty confident in this K-Lite pack thing, so I'll give it a go. Uninstalled Shark007's, installed K-Lite, went back to using Cinepak, and looks excellent again. And Premiere's happy too. Thankyou - should have listened to you in the first place!

Vista can go f**k itself, incidentally. It usually does anyway without any help from me.]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:38:41 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from ziggy72
I had a look at the Premiere troubleshooting tips and I can't see any issues there either. It's just Cinepak it seems, everything else is fine. No big deal, MS codec is the same quality and it works fine with Premiere so I'll just go with that. I don't want to start messing with the K-lite codecs just now as I use the Shark007 codecs to ensure parity between my Xp and Vista machines, which I have managed to achieve - and you don't want to upset Vista, trust me!. It's possible that an update to the Shark007 codecs may have upset Cinepak in some way, but I already have a solution so I'll leave it at that. Thanks again!]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:59:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Emily
Video Settings
Frame size: 1280h 720v (1.0000)
Frame rate: 25.00 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)

Best,

Emily.]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:02:50 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from glasgowjim
If you are having codec trouble I would say that the best thing to do would be to uninstall your existing codec packs then installing the Full K-Lite pack (so you get all the tools and codecs)

You can get it from:

http://www.free-codecs.com/k_lite_codec_pack_download.htm

If you already have it installed and you are having trouble you can go to:

Start>K-Lite Codec Pack>Tools>Codec Tweak Tool

You can then use two options to fix codecs: "Detect Broken Codecs and filters - other fixes" and "Reset Settings".

You can then click next and select every option and the Tweak tool should sort any busted codecs.

If that doesn't work you can then go to:

Start>K-Lite Codec Pack>Configuration>ffdshow video decoder

The very first screen that comes up is a list of the codecs that you can use - if you find the one that you are having trouble with you can then click on the decoder and be able to select another one.

These steps should, hopefully, resolve any codec issues that you have.

Take it easy,
-Jim.]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:30:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Emily
I've had a few issues with Premiere too.

I've found this article incredibly useful, run through some of the relevant checks on there to see if there is anything that can help you out.

Cheers,

Emily.
edited by Emily on 23/06/2011]]> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:21:46 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from mysto Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:43:43 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from ziggy72 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 22:11:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from alakyr by the way i read that xvid is the best the i'm ging to try it

edited by alakyr on 21/01/2011]]> Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:00:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from bootztap
just beautiful quality

]]> Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:33:57 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Jamie Matt wrote:

I use huffyuv, because it's lossless so there's no quality loss when I edit it up in my video editor.

Plus, it's very quick to edit with, which is a massive plus.

Hi Matt -

Your videos are certainly of amazing quality - huffyuv must be great. I've never tried to use it but I think I'll give it a go. Is that the same huffyuv I listed in the poll "Huffyuv v2.1.1 - CCESP patch v0.2.5:" hopefully it is and I don't need to go install another version

Jamie.
]]> Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:30:45 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Matt Plus, it's very quick to edit with, which is a massive plus.]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:05:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from raptormarlins ]]> Mon, 11 Oct 2010 04:11:04 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from ziggy72 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:33:37 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Emily
Barry suggested using ffdshow with the codec set to Lossless Jpeg. The colour space should be yv12.
This made a HUGE difference when I went on to edit it. I haven't had any issues in editing or rendering with this one. It does look like the colours are a little more muted but that might just be my eyes on a Friday afternoon...

You can download it from here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/K_Lite_Codec_Pack_download.htm

More info here:

http://www.muvizu.com/forum/topic492-motion-jpeg-dont-overlook-it.aspx]]> Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:24:29 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from hugmyster And good.

I'll give the XVid a pop later as I have a video to try and fancy a chuckle. There's also a lossless codec out there (yes, free and legal) but no idea what it's like.

Huggy]]> Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:47:45 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from tripfreak
So, I either use the Lagarith Losless Video Codec: Link hereor the XVID codec from within the ffdshow codec package for the first step (1):

and/or the MPEG-4 codec for the final step (2).
Both set to "one-pass quality" and "Quality" to 100 (percent).]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:27:28 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Than Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:01:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from glasgowjim Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:29:45 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from artpen For the love of money upload it, it was 1 1/2 mins long
At 386 megs. The super class team at muvizu told me to
Use the XVID codec, it shrank the file to 38 megs and I
produced the same video at full HD, it uploaded I about 15 mins
great stuff

]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:04:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Jamie Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:31:23 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from freakmoomin
but if your wanting to do post work on your movies then id prob steer clear, its not very edit friendly....im still yet to find the best codec for this]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:14:34 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic490-what-codec-do-you-use-and-why.aspx Message from Jamie
Enter a poll and share your results here. I created the list just by going to "Make Video" in Muvizu and typing out what I have available on my computer, so if you use a different codec to whats listed here, just say and I'll update the poll with your codec choice.]]> Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:15 GMT