RE: Video Converter -- was RE: [APML] Registax Tutorial

["Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com>]

You might actually be better off taking a bunch of regular images with
the F707 at that same shutter speed and selecting the camera option that
saves them as tiff or big jpeg, whatever the best image quality is, then
stacking those even though you have fewer frames. The ten seconds of mpg
is just 300 frames that have been compressed with a very lossey method
and you will not recover the original detail by resampling them up to
uncompressed AVI with the software. That is like taking a compressed jpg
and trying to turn it back to a big bmp. Registax will realign the
images pretty well either way.
Dale

-----Original Message-----

For a related suggestion...
I found myself in need of a video format converter.  My Sony DSC-F707
digital camera is capable of taking short MPEG movies, but Registax
can't
accept .MPG as input.

I upgraded the QuickTime player to the version that will save (convert
formats). On RARE occasions it works (Win2K, 1GB memory, ...); the rest
of
the time I get system lockup. Even CTRL-ALT-DELETE doesn't work, only
the
hardware reset button.

After searching and trying numerous shareware programs--crash, run
forever,
run out of memory (1GB real; total 3.6GB virtual), etc.,--I got down to
SuperVideoConverter (http://www.mpgdvd.com/index.htm) which, so far,
works
like a champ.  It's small, inexpensive, and so far, I'm happy with it.
I
think I'll be sending the US$18 to them!

Standard disclaimers; no connections, no interests, no other knowledge
regarding...

Rich



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