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- Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 03:09:05 -0500
- From: Collins <collins@ACCUCOMM.NET>
- Subject: [IML] Quest: Framerate reduction and a sample avi
-
- I know I have seen questions about framerates and playback speeds in the
- past, so I thought I'd post this little note. I recently found a free
- avi editor from MS, no less, that will do these things and more. If you
- don't mind using a 16bit application (I don't think there is a 32bit
- version) Videdit does quite a lot and costs nothing as far as I can
- see.(There is no registration information in the file, and I downloaded
- it from either zdnet.com or download.com, one of the two, where it was
- labeled as shareware)
-
- SOme features include: adding sound-very elementary, as there is little
- interface to match sound to frame and no mixing abilities, but you can
- lay down some music or sound effects with your animation
-
- change the playback speed- pretty handy, you can create an avi at 30fps
- then reduce the speed to 15fps, allowing for animating on two's
-
- change the actual framerate- you know from like 30fps to 25 fps-
- therefore you can make a pal video from ntsc(only speculating here, I
- woudn't know if it worked or not, as I don't have any pal equipment :))
-
- basic editing- import clips from other avi's with mark in and out, cut
- copy and paste frames, extract only a portion of the avi
-
- crop and resize- the cropping tool is very cool, use it just like you
- would in photoshop, resize, well, it resizes
-
- compression quality preview- allows you to actually see what the frames
- will look like before you compress them- neat!
-
- Seems like a useful utlity for avi's, I like it.
-
- I posted a sample of what I used it for at
- http://www.accucomm.net/~collins1/weird5.zip
-
- It's kinda hefty at 4.4 megs, so beware. Took me about 20 minutes to
- upload it at 33.6. There's not a link on my pages, because I'll be
- changing them very soon.
-
- A little information about the avi file- Original was 480 X 320, 300
- frames and weighed in at about 10 megs(created in IFW 1.3.4). I slowed
- the speed down to 12fps and reduced the framerate to 12 fps also. I
- added a wav file for sound effect, then cropped to a 480 X 207 adding a
- little movie screen drama to the animation. Playback time went from 10
- seconds to 25 seconds and when I saved the file it was about 5.5 megs.
-