Sunday, December 18, 2005
MPEG4 Modifier
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "SOFTWARE" @ 10:00 AM
"Having to re-encode a video file after making a change is one of the most frustrating aspects of digital video. Encoding takes long enough the first time, why go through it twice if you don't need to. If DivX or XviD MPEG-4 video saved as .AVI files are the format you need to edit, MPEG4 Modifier is your solution. Change aspect ratio, pixel aspect ratio, user data and interlacing all without re-encoding the file."
This appears to only be a partial solution to the problem of re-encoding digital video files. Typical reasons for transcoding are a change in resolution, or a change in file type. This program doesn't cover either of those situations. I have to wonder how useful this would be, since the target market for a program like this probably already knows how to set these encoding variables the right way the first time. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and if you want to transcode files faster, you simply need a faster computer. End of story.
This appears to only be a partial solution to the problem of re-encoding digital video files. Typical reasons for transcoding are a change in resolution, or a change in file type. This program doesn't cover either of those situations. I have to wonder how useful this would be, since the target market for a program like this probably already knows how to set these encoding variables the right way the first time. There's no such thing as a free lunch, and if you want to transcode files faster, you simply need a faster computer. End of story.
