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Today's Topics:
1. Variable Bit Rate and importing into video editting apps
(Dougie Nisbet)
2. Re: Variable Bit Rate and importing into video editting apps
(Harlan Daneker)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2024 20:00:13 +0000
From: Dougie Nisbet <dou...@katsura.uk>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Motion-user] Variable Bit Rate and importing into video
editting apps
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Recently I've been experimenting with importing multiple mp4 webcam
clips into video editors. e.g. a day's worth of clips from a garden
webcam. I don't have any great experience of editting programs so I'm
simultaneously doing a bit of ad-hoc evaluation of what might work best
for me. Currently I'm messing about with kdenlive and shotcut.
When I tried to import a batch of mp4 files into kdenlive it told me
they were vbr. Its options for automatic batch conversion failed so I
looked at my motion.conf files, and set:
# The encoding quality of the movie. (0=use bitrate. 1=worst
quality, 100=best)
movie_quality 0
# Container/Codec to used for the movie. See motion_guide.html
movie_codec mp4
# Duplicate frames to achieve "framerate" fps.
movie_duplicate_frames on
I thought this would do the trick but both kdenlive and shotcut report
these as vbr. Perhaps they are, and I'm not convinced it's a bad thing.
One thing that occurred to me is that perhaps this that perhaps I've
misunderstood the movie_quality option and should have it set to 100.
So I guess I have two questions (one off-topic)
1. What apps do people use to edit the footage they get from their
cameras?
2. Is there a particular combination of options and values that I
should use to make it easier for later editing?
Dougie
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2024 18:00:29 -0500
From: Harlan Daneker <hdane...@gmail.com>
To: Motion discussion list <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Variable Bit Rate and importing into video
editting apps
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I'm certainly not an expert on this subject, but ffmpeg from the command
line can do a lot depending on what you want to do.
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 3:15?PM Dougie Nisbet <dou...@katsura.uk> wrote:
> Recently I've been experimenting with importing multiple mp4 webcam
> clips into video editors. e.g. a day's worth of clips from a garden
> webcam. I don't have any great experience of editting programs so I'm
> simultaneously doing a bit of ad-hoc evaluation of what might work best
> for me. Currently I'm messing about with kdenlive and shotcut.
>
> When I tried to import a batch of mp4 files into kdenlive it told me
> they were vbr. Its options for automatic batch conversion failed so I
> looked at my motion.conf files, and set:
>
> # The encoding quality of the movie. (0=use bitrate. 1=worst
> quality, 100=best)
> movie_quality 0
>
> # Container/Codec to used for the movie. See motion_guide.html
> movie_codec mp4
>
> # Duplicate frames to achieve "framerate" fps.
> movie_duplicate_frames on
>
> I thought this would do the trick but both kdenlive and shotcut report
> these as vbr. Perhaps they are, and I'm not convinced it's a bad thing.
>
> One thing that occurred to me is that perhaps this that perhaps I've
> misunderstood the movie_quality option and should have it set to 100.
>
> So I guess I have two questions (one off-topic)
>
> 1. What apps do people use to edit the footage they get from their
> cameras?
> 2. Is there a particular combination of options and values that I
> should use to make it easier for later editing?
>
> Dougie
>
>
>
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