AVI to MPEG convertor wanted...

[PeteRenton]

Hi, i've been doing a lot of cutscenes and in the version of flash i have you cannot export to mpeg. AVI's are massive, so i dont want to use them for a 640 x 400 game...
i found one convertor, but it displays "Converted with etc.." in the top left hand corner. Anyone got a good program they could reccomend cos ive worked pretty ahrd doing all these cutscnes for my game...

[YOke]

Go here. They have all the tools you need for converting between the different formats.

[BOYD1981]

the AVIs are probably big because they're not compressed, if there is an option for compression in the AVI exporter try selecting different compression codecs, also if you want them to be smaller you should search for the xvid codec (you can't get a compiled version from the main site, but there is a site that has them compiled) it will produce a smaller AVI, but the only problem with that is that anyone else that plays the game must also have the xvid codec...
i also think that VirtualDub (which you can find on http://www.oldversions.com) can convert mpeg to avi, but i'm not sure, you can also remove frames with it, so if the convertor only displays the "converted with" thing in a corner, you can just add lots of blank frames to the start of the animation, then remove them from the avi later...

[Crichton]

I'm guessing you're not making a commercial game, since you'd have to pay royaltees for using MPEGs, so then, why not convert to something like DivX5 instead (MPEG4-based codec)? The quality will be better than with MPEG1/2 at smaller filesizes. Most people have DivX codec installed nowadays. Unless you want to support systems that are older than the minimum system requirements on this page:

http://www.divx.com/divx/system_requirements.php

But if you really want MPEG then the tools at Doom9.net (most likely the demo of TMPGEnc will do) is what you need.

If you do decide to convert to DivX, get VirtualDub, set video codec to DivX5 and audio codec to one of the MP3 ones at high quality and convert away. It'd be best to read some guides at Doom9 and/or videohelp.com first.

[Minimi]

go here : http://www.virtualdub.org  !!!

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