Old man Don
14th of April 2008 (Mon), 11:39
Trying to convert and combine S5 AVI files to put them on disks in VCD, SVCD or DVD format.
There is a tool with the hackish sounding name of Blink and Smack from Radtools. I have used it with bittersweet results. I can blink the S5's avi's with great success in compression and excellent quality and also combine mulitple files into one movie. However the player is proprietary so you have to use the blink player to view.
You are also supposed to be able to convert the movie to an AVI container of a different codec that would be compatible with programs say like Nero to make VCD or DivX movies. This portion is where I get lost, the results usually degrade or omit sound and the frames are cut into sections and display like a collage, which is interesting to watch the skaters face or body moving in the largest section of the frame while their skates are skating in a section right above their head.
Anyways, I think someone more familiar working the technical aspect of setting up the input criteria of media format conversions would be able to provide an answer.
FYI, if anyone does decides to give this a try let me say for reference I took about 21 seperate S5 avi files (4.3 GB's) and blinked them into one hour long file compressed to 1.3 gigabytes. Awesome playback but it took 25 hours to convert. So the initial conversion takes some time but once you do the required conversion to a blink or smack format the secondary conversions to change the codec has taken far less time varying an hour to 4 hours depending on codec choosen.
Radtools link for your review : [URL="
There is a tool with the hackish sounding name of Blink and Smack from Radtools. I have used it with bittersweet results. I can blink the S5's avi's with great success in compression and excellent quality and also combine mulitple files into one movie. However the player is proprietary so you have to use the blink player to view.
You are also supposed to be able to convert the movie to an AVI container of a different codec that would be compatible with programs say like Nero to make VCD or DivX movies. This portion is where I get lost, the results usually degrade or omit sound and the frames are cut into sections and display like a collage, which is interesting to watch the skaters face or body moving in the largest section of the frame while their skates are skating in a section right above their head.
Anyways, I think someone more familiar working the technical aspect of setting up the input criteria of media format conversions would be able to provide an answer.
FYI, if anyone does decides to give this a try let me say for reference I took about 21 seperate S5 avi files (4.3 GB's) and blinked them into one hour long file compressed to 1.3 gigabytes. Awesome playback but it took 25 hours to convert. So the initial conversion takes some time but once you do the required conversion to a blink or smack format the secondary conversions to change the codec has taken far less time varying an hour to 4 hours depending on codec choosen.
Radtools link for your review : [URL="