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Optimizing your MPEG videos


Starting with the basic knowledge of video editing, you combine different elements such as videos, audio, titles, overlays and effects to create a movie project. Before burning this movie on a disc or saving it to file, every element included in your timeline needs to be rendered into a continuous stream of data. There are many factors to consider in making the rendering process of your project successful. For one, a project with exactly same attributes as your captured videos' should render very quickly and at the best quality.

Using the MPEG Optimizer minimizes several rendering problems since it intelligently analyzes all your project's video attributes and suggests the optimal video and audio profile you can use to create high-quality movies.

This tutorial explores how MPEG Optimizer can help you produce better quality for your MPEG videos and at the same time maximize your rendering speed.

To better understand the concept of MPEG Optimizer, we need to compare the properties of our videos. For example, there are three videos that we have decided to add to our Timeline.


Let's begin by comparing the video and audio properties of the three video clips by right-clicking a video clip and selecting Properties.

 

Part 1: Analyzing the video and audio properties of your clips

As illustrated below, our video clips have different file formats, video types and attributes. It is important, however, to have at least one MPEG-2 file in order to use MPEG Optimizer.

Among the three video clips, Video B has the highest video and audio properties.

Even if Video A is in MPEG-4 File format, its attributes are lower than Video B, which is 368x208 as compared to 720x480.

 

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