Hi Dave,
a good program for converting images into movies of different formats is
VideoMach:
http://gromada.com/VideoMach.html
Best,
Stefan
david.borh...@abbott.com schrieb:
Hi Pymol/CCP4 users,
Can anyone recommend an MPEG encoder that handles larger-than-usual
images? Specifically, I'd like to make a movie that plays as
"full-screen" at some reasonable resolution, such as 1024x768 (or
maybe even higher).
Absolute Requirements:
1. Handles large images gracefully. (I don't care if images have to be
multiples of 16 pixels or not).
2. Can weave together an image stream (e.g., movie*.tga) AND an audio
track (mp3 required; other formats would be nice)...movie must have a
soundtrack.
3. Produces high-quality output (no glitches, raspy noise in audio,
etc.).
4. Uses readily-available (standard?) codecs (for the Windows world,
unfortunately), i.e., not looking for bleeding edge. Cross platform
compatibility of the output MPEG would be a definite plus.
Nice-to-Haves:
5. Can be tweaked (e.g., different I/O settings, compression/quality,
etc.)
6. Executables for different platforms (Linux, Win2K).
7. Low cost (shareware? I'm by-and-large disappointed with
"professional" s/w these days!). But if there is something that really
works well (i.e., does all of the above flawlessly, and more), I'm
willing to pay!
I have looked at a fair number of free/shareware programs, as well as
some rather expensive "professional" (read bloated) software. The best
I've found so far is TMPGEnc from http://www.tmpgenc.net/ , which is
very fast, easy to use, and made very nice ouput (MPEG-2).
Unfortunately, it does not handle images larger than 720 x 576 pixels.
Some (like HTVideo6.0) seem to promise good things, but then produce
low-quality (glitchy) output, or take hours to compress what TMPGEnc
can do in a couple of minutes.
(apologies if you got this message twice)
Thanks,
Dave
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