Whats up? Are you guys sure it the panasonic will not accpet a file larger then 2 gigs? Frm a clip i had to convert to avi (using virtual dub) it came out to 2.25gigs. I ran it into the panasonic and it encoded fine.

-- doug (mazinz@aol.com), May 14, 2000

Answers

Doug,

I run an AVI of 3.6 GB but although the Panasonic did not report any error, the MPEG result was way before the last final frame of the AVI. I quickly judged this because of the limit. Please do correct me if I've made a wrong turn here.

Mike

-- Yosef Michael (yankee_mickey@yahoo.com), May 14, 2000.

that i couldnt fully answer. All i did was run in a file slightly higher then 2 gigs (2.25)and the whole thing was still encoded fine and it wasnt cut. Maybe it allows files slightly over 2gigs?? Who knows with all this screwy software

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), May 14, 2000.

Doug,

From your experience, which compression is best for an AVI to be fed into Panasonic ?

I understand that uncompressed will give the best result, but in regards to the limit, what codec shall be the right choice (for let's say 1 AVI file of 30 minutes video, 352x240)

Thanks for the attention.

-- Mike (yankee_mickey@yahoo.com), May 14, 2000.

Well, heres my thing. I use the dazzle to capture so my files are done in mpeg (at a rate though of 2900). However sometimes the sync goes out for whatever reason (and its always on the same films i used to try and do). So i would use the virtual dub to convert these to an avi while fixing the sync then re-encode.

So its like this my files are 30-32mins at a bitrate of 2900. i then run these in the virtualdub and i am able to set the quality to 100 and i use the Intel indeo 5.04 codec. i have not noticed any loss in quality from this. my final file is close to 2gigs but still under it. I then run it in the panasonic and all is well

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), May 14, 2000.