GAP Encoding

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GAP Encoding

by Jason van Gumster :: Rate this Message:

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Hello,

I've been working my way through explaining GAP's video encoding
feature and stumbled across something that I couldn't find any obvious
documentation to (or figure out on my via trial and error). Basically,
I'd like to know the difference between the SINGLEFRAMES and RAWFRAMES
encoder options. The names seem to indicate that RAWFRAMES doesn't
compress frame data, but if you set your output format to JPEG, the
compression window appears and the encoder happily compresses each
frame just as if you'd chosen SINGLEFRAMES.

If anyone could shed some light on this topic, I'd be very grateful.

Take care.

  -Fweeb
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Re: GAP Encoding

by saulgoode :: Rate this Message:

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Quoting Jason van Gumster <jason@...>:

> I've been working my way through explaining GAP's video encoding
> feature and stumbled across something that I couldn't find any obvious
> documentation to (or figure out on my via trial and error). Basically,
> I'd like to know the difference between the SINGLEFRAMES and RAWFRAMES
> encoder options. The names seem to indicate that RAWFRAMES doesn't
> compress frame data, but if you set your output format to JPEG, the
> compression window appears and the encoder happily compresses each
> frame just as if you'd chosen SINGLEFRAMES.

I'm not certain about this, but I believe that RAWFRAMES is only  
meaningful for the "Storyboard" Input Mode, and then only if the  
source video file includes valid JPEG frames in its format (i.e.,  
MPEG1 I-frames, or MJPEG). For these formats, rather than decode the  
(JPEG) frame into an image and then encode that image back to a JPEG  
file, the video encoder will simply extract the JPEG frame from the  
video stream. This is beneficial from both a speed and quality  
perspective.

If you are not in "Storyboard" Input Mode, encoding is mandated  
regardless of whether you use RAWFRAMES or SINGLEFRAMES.



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