Rage against the machines
Sep. 13th, 2006 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynI am almost finished with my Buffy and Angel all-cast vid. Except.
I can't seem to make a viewable file using the normal methods I employ to create a large-window Divx avi file. I'm up to just under 50MB right now, and it's still heavily, heavily pixelated in a lot of spots, most probably because I'm using tons of filters this time. It's weird though, that with all the filters and effects I used in After Rain, for instance, this problem didn't crop up. In desperation I went back to my old methods of making a very tiny windowed MPEG4 file, and it looks great, except that it's... oh so very wee. Compared to what I've grown used to looking at, it's annoyingly small and awful. It expands to double size okay, becoming just a bit more pixelated and blurry, but... I hate to take that step back, and it refuses to allow me to adjust the size (just the same way that Divx will absolutely not allow me to change the size from 720x480 to 640x480).
I'm at my wit's end, and really down about this, and I don't know what else to do. I've wasted hours trying to come up with something, and I don't know any Mac compresions gurus in town to help me figure something out. I've searched and looked at the Divx site to see why my 5.2 version is suddenly so unusuable (I'm not up to 10.3.9, so I can't use the new Divx version). My specs are somewhat old -- Mac OS 10.2.8, FCE 2.3, QT 6.5.2. I don't really want to upgrade the OS because I'm afraid of losing some abilities, but at this point, maybe going to 10.3.9, QT 7 and getting the new Divx is the only way... I just don't know. I am not a good troubleshooter.
So, all that said... if you were interested in this vid, what would you rather DL, given my craptastic choices right now?
[Poll #820127]
I can't seem to make a viewable file using the normal methods I employ to create a large-window Divx avi file. I'm up to just under 50MB right now, and it's still heavily, heavily pixelated in a lot of spots, most probably because I'm using tons of filters this time. It's weird though, that with all the filters and effects I used in After Rain, for instance, this problem didn't crop up. In desperation I went back to my old methods of making a very tiny windowed MPEG4 file, and it looks great, except that it's... oh so very wee. Compared to what I've grown used to looking at, it's annoyingly small and awful. It expands to double size okay, becoming just a bit more pixelated and blurry, but... I hate to take that step back, and it refuses to allow me to adjust the size (just the same way that Divx will absolutely not allow me to change the size from 720x480 to 640x480).
I'm at my wit's end, and really down about this, and I don't know what else to do. I've wasted hours trying to come up with something, and I don't know any Mac compresions gurus in town to help me figure something out. I've searched and looked at the Divx site to see why my 5.2 version is suddenly so unusuable (I'm not up to 10.3.9, so I can't use the new Divx version). My specs are somewhat old -- Mac OS 10.2.8, FCE 2.3, QT 6.5.2. I don't really want to upgrade the OS because I'm afraid of losing some abilities, but at this point, maybe going to 10.3.9, QT 7 and getting the new Divx is the only way... I just don't know. I am not a good troubleshooter.
So, all that said... if you were interested in this vid, what would you rather DL, given my craptastic choices right now?
[Poll #820127]
