I create Fractal animations in 1920X1080 resolution, from Fractal Images in the same resolution. I need some advice about the best Lossless compression available for my videos, as these are highly detailed and complex. I'm currently using Movie Studio Platinum 2022.
Assuming you want to export out of MMS, I use the usual suspects, Lagarith, HuffYUV, and MagixYUV.
Recent versions of Movie Edit Pro/Movie Studio have shown a nasty juddering when playing back LAGS and HUFF on the timeline which translated into bad exports. Whether that translates into bad exports, I don't know, but when I bring MEP-exported files back into MEP, they judder. I started using MagicYUV which is nice and smooth coming in to MEP.
The very latest version of MEP 2022, 130, appears to have fixed the juddering.
There may be others out there, but MEP can export to these three when they are installed.
Hi and welcome to the user to user forums.
I think I should ask first what is the intended use for the resulting exported files.
Presumably the source files are going to be the best quality to start with so why the need to re-export?
Some formats are not internet or computer friendly (as @AAProds has already alluded to) due to the large file sizes and data rates which causes video players to glitch and drop frames which for an HD resolution video may be insane and not really needed.
What are the original files recorded as? Are you trying to edit them into some sort of project?
Where or how will the resulting videos be viewed?
Ray.
Ray, I didn't imply that Lossless is unfriendly to anything. The glitching in MEP with those codecs is solely a Magix programming bug. Lossless video is actually very easy to work with, even the HD that I've created, the reason being that there is very little compression and so the program (whatever it is) needs to do much less work decoding it than highly compressed formats such as H264 and H265. The video data rate for LAGS 1920x1080 is is 170Mb/s, not a lot different to some of the files I've seen referred-to here.
As far as the internet goes, my preference is to upload lossless files to YT and Facebook. There's no point in degrading your video when YT will have another hack at it. Obviously, I'm limited by file sizes, but anything up to 10 minutes (4gb LAGS SD), I'll do lossless where I'm striving to retain as much quality as I can.
Edited for grammar.
Hi
Are you using Movie Studio to actually create the fractals, or another program eg Blender, Maya etc, and exporting them from that for use in Movie Studio?
To further assist you it would help if we know your computer specification - see this topic for what is required and please quote processor and graphics card make/model in full - I would suggest you put this information in your profile signature so we do not have to keep asking for it.
Additionally are the graphics card/chipset drivers up to date?
John EB
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