To all you guys doing riding videos, I have a question for ya. I have shot about 5 different days of riding with my helmet cam. When I capture them to my PC, they come out awsome. I also convert them to wmv files (smaller, easier to show other people) and they come out pretty good. The problem I am having is when I convert them to mpeg2 to put on DVD. I get some blocky spots after rendering. Got any suggestions? Oh yeah, I am using Vegas to rener/produce them.

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I have them shared on my AOL account if ya want to see. They are kinda large. I'm big on quality!

 

I'm not familiar with the software. However I'd guess that "blochy" spots might be coming from video format compression.
What resolution are the videos set to be? And what other video formats can you convert the files to? Is the rest of
the video good quality and still has blochy spots? It might just be the codecs. Some versions of DivX and Xvid and
the newer layer 4 mpeg formats have this problem as well. If you have the WMV files out there on a http server or public
ftp server somewhere I could try to convert there for you also on one of my Linux boxes, as well as one of the
Windoze boxes at work and see what I find out.

 

Does it do the same thing if you use just the .mpg (1) VCD file as opposed to the .mpg2 SVCD?

 

The resolution that I am capturing it off my camcorder is 720x480. If you are watching the raw stream (about 10GB for 1 hours of video), it is just like you are there riding. Vegas allows you to render these files to just about anything, but I would like to put a DVD together at the end of the season with all the highlites from the year.

As far as the codecs go, I do not think that I have any loaded. I'll have to check on that. As for converting the wmv files, I am sharing them through my AOL instant messenger account and you can grab them there. They are still pretty large (3 files, 40 to 70 MB). If you want to try, just PM me your screen name and I'll add it to my list. The only problem I see is that the resolution of those files is like 340x280 or something (can't remember of hand) and only 1M/sec bitrate.

JohnCVBz, it is a lot worse when I try to go to mpg1.

 

IM me at JoshCVBz on AOL and I will grab a file and see if I can render it as an mpeg from here....It could have something to do with some wacky codecs on your machine.

-Josh

 

I added you to my buddy list. You should be able to get them anytime now. The raw videos (very high res) are in riding\raw-2004 and the finished rendered videos are in \riding\finished-2004.