Preview Codec?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:00 am

For those of you that have software with preview renders, what codec do you render in? Compressed and Huffy seem to be just a wee bit much to handle for me. Anyone have any suggestions?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:01 am

Correction: UNCOMPRESSED and huffy, etc.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:50 am

I usually don't use the preview rendering feature. I export preview files with to DivX or XviD and test them outside of the editing program.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 11:53 am

...How do you see that your transitions/effects worked like you wanted them to, then?

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:12 pm

I usually use either MJPEG or Cinepac. Isn't there an MJPEG codec that comes with the newest AMVapp? I forget...

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:02 pm

Never tried MJPEG, but cinepak is disgusting. O.o

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:48 pm

Kionon wrote:...How do you see that your transitions/effects worked like you wanted them to, then?

The transitions and effects get exported too, since they're part of the timeline. I'm pretty sparse on using effects, though, and the only transitions I tend to use are crossfades.

On my computer, Premiere would just as long to write a preview (that would play back terribly, I might add) as it would to just export a low-quality DivX render of the work I'd done sofar. That's why I stopped using the preview function.

Or was that about the codecs?

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:04 pm

Ah. I was hoping for a solution that would allow me too keep parts I wasn't changing rendered.

bum · Post by **bum** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:59 pm

You can preview transitions in realtime with premier when you scrub the timeline.

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:12 pm

I feel really stupid asking this, but scrub?