What is the best software for WMV?

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What is the best software for WMV?

Postby caughtinadream » Sun Aug 25, 2002 9:40 pm

I would like to try my hand at doing a music video; however, I don't have the webspace to host an AVI or MPG. I will most likely do the video in WMV format.

However, I've noticed that the WMV videos I've seen tend to have a slightly fuzzy picture. I would like to prevent this in my video, if at all possible.

My question is this: which software would be best for doing a WMV in? Thanks for your help!
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Postby Eek-1 » Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:36 am

The quality of picture actually depends on the source, resolution and the bitrate used. Software can only help you to automate the process.

I can't suggest any other tools than wm8eutil.exe and GUI frontend. I think there's a way to export to WMV8 from Adobe Premiere but I don't know any software.

You can try my recommendation:

    - Either follow the original video resolution or 384 x 288.
    If you plan to go higher then you'd have to do pre-processing.
    - If the source video is already blurry, try to clean it up & add contrast in virtualdub. Follow Quu's guide on how to cleanup video game footage, and then resize it to the recommended resolution.
    - framerate: 15fps
    - 500kbps / 88% quality vbr, 1/2 size buffer, 10secs keyframe distance.
    Recommended bitrate range 500~900kbps, or 88~95% quality VBR. Still, you'd have to experiment to find out the optimal quality/compression. Try with the minimum constant bitrate first, and then increase by 100k. Once you're satisfied with the result hit straight to the two-pass/vbr encoding.
    - As for the audio: 32~44.1kHz 64kbps mono or 2ch

If you don't have the time to play around the settings (encoding in WMV8 is very time consuming, I know) you can just follow the system profiles provided by wm8eutil. Try one of those near-broadcast quality or vbr.
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