Video Tutorial: Make FREE h.264 files that look great in Windows XP

Seems like a really cool program, AVI synth will not work on my computer at all, just plain refuses keeps saying some stuff about the letter "Y" ??? any way, just out of interest why not allow your program to use avi's?

Jimmy
 
Thank you so much!
Getting excellent results with this...and it's so easy combined with DebugMode Frameserving.

Any idea on how to create a streaming H264 with .mov container using this method?
 
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rslv said:
Thank you so much!
Getting excellent results with this...and it's so easy combined with DebugMode Frameserving.

Any idea on how to create a streaming H264 with .mov container using this method?
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You can't do .MOV containers with MeGUI, because quicktime holds the patents to their file structure, and it is not open source. However .mp4 is very similar to .mov structure and is open source (any application can add support for it without paying royalities)

Also on another note, Xbox360 spring update added h.264 support all the way up to level 4. (14Mbps/s), so there's another platform that you can play these beautifully encoded files on.
 
I didn't know what the import thing was in the first set up and i cancelled a few audio profiles. is that a problem?
 
premiere pro compressing raw quicktime .264

premiere pro compressing raw quicktime .264

OK big problem help!

I'm using a PC/windows xp
Premiere Pro 2

The footage is :

high def quicktime

I'm trying to end up with the following for online view:
  • Frame Size: 640 x 480 –
  • Editing Timebase: 23.98 fps.
  • Rate: 48 kHz
  • Depth: 16 bit.
  • Compressor: H.264 High Quality (Min 3 Mbit/sec)
I have already edited the video as the timeline allowed me to drop in the quicktime raw files.

However, my premiere pro version doesn't have a .264 compressor so i'm trying to use "mequi"

How the hell do I get a file that MEQUI will accept from my timeline????

I tried exporting the timeline as a movie but it didn't covert to avi
I have tried converting the timeline into wmv

Everytime"megui" keeps saying:
"Problem with the video impute filename. The path is not a legal form."??

What the hell do I do to get this footage into MEQUI??

Please help!!!

stefan
 
Use Quicktime and just export it... only problem i find with that is QT doesn't like non square pixels...
 
Demistate said:
Make sure you have all the updates installed. And on my end, it will automatically add a convert RGB-> YUV filter automatically. I'm pretty sure there is a box you can tick to manually add the conversion.
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Can you elaborate on this?


I'm getting the same issue. I couldn't find a check box that addresses this.
 
Just to let you guys know, MeGUI has changed a lot since i've written this tutorial so you're going to have to expierement on your own to find out good settings.

Also there's a program that is much less technical for encoding called Ripbot Its more suited for making h.264 video for iPod PSP, and streamable versions for progressive download on websites (without streaming servers).
 
Just want to add my experience with meGui. I downloaded the program last week.

It took me four days to get it to work. Every preset, codec, or just plain setting that was assumed in the tutorial was not present. I had to find, download, and add about 90% of what was used in the tutorial (CE quicktime preset, YU12 converter etc....) I got it to work, it looks great, but that was one of the most annoying adventures upon which I've ever embarked. :D

I'll post up the sites of where I finally found everything if anyone is interested.

Thanks for checking back in Demistate.
 
kidwoo said:
Just want to add my experience with meGui. I downloaded the program last week.

It took me four days to get it to work. Every preset, codec, or just plain setting that was assumed in the tutorial was not present. I had to find, download, and add about 90% of what was used in the tutorial (CE quicktime preset, YU12 converter etc....) I got it to work, it looks great, but that was one of the most annoying adventures upon which I've ever embarked. :D

I'll post up the sites of where I finally found everything if anyone is interested.

Thanks for checking back in Demistate.
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Oh god please do :O

I've been trying to get this program to work for 3 days now, every time I fix one problem a new one pops up a second later.
At the moment it tells me that "the video must be YUV", dont really know how to do that, is there an option in Premiere to make it a yuv? Or do I have to look for a converter?
 
ciencin said:
Oh god please do :O

I've been trying to get this program to work for 3 days now, every time I fix one problem a new one pops up a second later.
At the moment it tells me that "the video must be YUV", dont really know how to do that, is there an option in Premiere to make it a yuv? Or do I have to look for a converter?
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I feel your pain.


I've got just about everything bookmarked at home but try this site. This one provided MOST of what ended up making the program functional.

It's a 'backup' of all the presets that should have come with the program but didn't for some reason.

http://mirror05.x264.nl/Sharktooth/?dir=./MeGUI/profiles


After installing these, AND the x.264 exe file from that site, I at least started getting the automatic color format conversion. That can be found here.

http://mirror05.x264.nl/Sharktooth/



To be honest, I downloaded tons of things before finally coming upon these downloads. I believe that these two were all I needed.
 
help please!

help please!

hi, wanted to thank for this tutorial. I'm pretty new in this field, making videos that then i try to upload to youtube, but never really get the quality i'm looking for.I wanted to try megui and I've followed all your steps, installed all the required freewares and every time i hit the update button a fatal error windows pops up, saying:
could not load file or assembly 'Icsharpcode.sharpziplib version=0.85.4.369 culture =neutral, publickeytoken=1b03e6acf1164f731 or one of its dependencies. the system cannot find tge file specified. source of exception:megui stacktrace: at megui.updatewindow.save new file (upgreadable file,stream data)
at megui.updatewindow.installfiles(sorted dictionary '2groups)
at megui.updatewindow.beginupdate()
at system.threading.threadhelper.threadstart_context (object state)
at system.threading.executioncontext.run (executioncontext executioncontext,context callback callback, object state)
at system.threading.threadhelper.threadstart()

i really don't have a clue of what this is, does anybody know what can i do to solve this error and be able to try megui?
thanks so much
 
MeGUI will accept any directshow input. Installing Quicktime Alternative allows all directshow programs to break apart and decode Quicktime MOV containers.

Give that a shot.
 
I have followed the first tutorial a few times and it keeps giving me this error I can't for the life of me figure out.

AviSynth error
AviSynth script error:
AVISource:couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc
(C:\Desktop\tutorial_encode.avs, line 1)

any help?
 
Warren Foster said:
I have followed the first tutorial a few times and it keeps giving me this error I can't for the life of me figure out.

AviSynth error
AviSynth script error:
AVISource:couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc
(C:\Desktop\tutorial_encode.avs, line 1)

any help?
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AVISYNTH doesn't understand your input file source. I'm guessing you're trying to use DV.

For some silly reason Avisynth requires an alternate DV decoder other than the one built into windows.

I've found that cedocia codec works well

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Cedocida_DV_Codec.htm


 
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