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MPEG-4 questions / Pinnacle Studio 10.8

  • 06-12-2011 09:14PM
    #1
    ahal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I've been messing about with video for many years, and one question I always pondered was this. We know that JPEG pictures deteriorate over time, with all the opening / closing. As MPEG-2 and more particularly in my case, MPEG-4 files are a series of still images that get uncompressed / recompressed when you open / close the video they're in, do they deteriorate also with time?

    The other question relates to Studio 10.8 Plus, also on the MPEG-4 line. PS 10 doesn't have an MPEG-4 import option (that came in version 11) but I can convert MPEG-4 > MPEG-4 in Pinnacle Spin and Studio will open those files no problem :rolleyes:

    The big issue is that the quality of the resulting render (regardless of settings) is crappy ... distinctive blur is evident. Now I seem to recall, many moons ago, being able to just open MPEG-4's in Pinnacle without any pre-conversion.

    I think I'm missing a codec here, but I've tried installing various packages that include H264 to no avail. Pinnacle Studio 10.8 still won't open the MPEG-4 files on the fly (ie: without a quality - loss conversion) If anyone can point me towards a likely fix I'd be more than grateful :)

    Cheers,

    Tony


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