mctozzy

...of course, the PZR's are not quite as good as the straight exe, but probably good enough in most cases.

OK now I'm puzzled. How can it be that the AVI is a very small file? (In fact all the time spent creating it was related to the audio...it did not seem to spend any time at all "exporting" the video side of things). And yet, you are correct - when I re-encoded it using Windows Media Encode sure enough the video is indeed somehow pulled through the rocess. Is there some sort of special P2E codec being used here to, in effect, generate the HD video in a deferred fashion as a result of being decoded? I must be missing something...this just seems really odd to me.

Just thought folks would be interested to know I have got very good results from an H.264 codec called CoreAVC, which once installed into Media Player classic, seems to be able to play without any dropped frames etc on my laptop. (Dell XPS 1530, nVidia chipset, Vista). Using the standard codecs I could not get a playback result that was equivalent to the output from exe. I even tried this at 1920x1080 @ 60fps and it seemed to work great! My test file had pans, zooms and rotates.

This may have been answered before, but as searching on three letter terms isn't allowed I can't tell. (Hint hint! Very useful to be able to search on terms like MP4, AVI etc)! When I try to export as AVI is does not work. Push the create AVI button and it virtually instantly drops through to the next dialog about burning the resulting AVI to disc. Doesn't seem to matter what settings I use. However, if I press the preview buttton, it correctly generates the preview file and shows it in Windows Media Player. Any clues? This is with 5.6.1 beta and also 5.6 beta 18.