On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Johannes Mueller <[email protected]> wrote: > Einar Rünkaru wrote: > >> > So what's the best video/audio codec for cinelerra and how do I get it. >> > >> > I am using cinelerra-cv-2.2 from the cinelerra-ppa repos on ubuntu 12.10. >> > The same behaviour I get using cinelerra-cv from the stable git repo from >> > cinelerra,org >> > >> > Any hints? >> >> There is a quite limited number of formats usable with cinelerra. >> >> Please read http://www.g-raffa.eu/Cinelerra/HOWTO/get_media_ready.html > > Thank you Einar. > > Two questions on that: > > > 1. suitable bitrate > > DNXHD seems to me the most feasible format. Almost anywhere they recommend as > video bitrate 185 Mbps. However on this page¹ it says that this is the bitrate > for 1080i/50 which results in 25 fps. My camera gives 50 fps (1080p/50) which > would require a higher bitrate which is however not mentioned in the table. > > In some forum someone recommends 240 Mbps for 1080p/50 projects. > > I tried both bitrates and surprisingly if I choose 240M the resulting files > get > smaller than the 180M ones. > > So which bit rate do I use? > > > 2. suitable audio codec. > > The page Einar mentioned recommends pcm_s16le as audio codec. However my > installation of cinelerra does not like it for some reason. It says > > new_acodec: couldn't find codec for "lpcm" > > and the playback is again unstopable. > > If I put an imported .wav into the timeline, everything's fine. > > > Thanks > > Johannes
I found conversion of panasonic .MTS to mjpeg with qscale of 1 and pcm_s24le gets the 28 Mbps HD1080p @ 50fps to 120 Mbps and quite editable in cinelerra. Arvind _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://lists.skolelinux.org/listinfo/cinelerra
