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Old 12-29-2011, 03:17 AM   #4
synclab
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Originally Posted by FedeFrede View Post
Hi, I'm on Windows and uses Xvid which can be rendered by use of Directshow - if you have the codec installed. I use Xvid because the decoding doesn't stress my CPU to much and the file size is not to big.

For the transcoding part, I use FFmpeg. FFmpeg can transcode from just about any format - now even ProRes, and make a Xvid video output. I use FFmpeg with the following parameters:
ffmpeg -i input.mov -g 2 -s 768x432 -an -qscale 3 output.avi

-g 2 means that the GOP size is 2 - that makes every 2nd frame a keyframe, so skipping is easy for Reaper. -qscale denotes the quality - less makes bigger files. I only use 768x432 pixels which is big enough for my purpose.

Get FFmpeg for Windows here:
http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
Get Xvid codec here:
http://www.xvid.org/Downloads.15.0.html

Regards,

Frederik
I think I might have discovered a bug with the 64bit version of REAPER for windows, I did what you told me and converted my video file, and nothing I couldn't see it, I tried seveal of the video options in REAPER but then it ocurred to me to download and installed the 32 bit version and I tried and the video works like a charm but reaper reports it like 23 fps and Quicktime 24 fps but other than that it loads the video out of the box. So I will need to use the 32 bit version. (should I report this?) - although I've been using REAPER for a little while now, I haven't been active in the forums I think I will now.


any suggestions whether this is a bug or not?
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