Expert opinion?

[vrpatilisl]

hi everybody.
I have this home made video (see attached mediainfo) shooted on cannon 720is digicam. I Want to convert it into Mkv with best available quality also want to convert sound to other format which can retain maximum quality. Can anybody suggest setting. I asked question here cause i am intrested in MKV output .
Thanx

[Blue_MiSfit]

MKV is just a container. It can carry a lot of different types of video, including mjpg (which is your camera's native format). If you just want to use the MKV container, you can simply drop your AVI file into MKVMergeGUI and it will remux your AVI into an MKV, without any quality loss at all.

Now then, when people talk about MKV, they usually mean MKV containing H.264 video, and some other type of audio, usually AAC or AC3.

The question is - where do you want to play the resulting video? If you just want to play back on the PC, I'd just leave it as-is, and use MKVMergeGUI to remux. If you want to play on some sort of hardware device, you'll have to re-encode. Your best option for doing so will likely be x264. If you're not familiar with using the command line, you should look at one of the various x264 GUIs, like MeGUI, Ripbot264, or maybe lord_mulder's x264 gui. The settings you choose will depend on what kind of device you want to play your video on.

So... let us know :)

[vrpatilisl]

thanx for quick reply.
I want to reencode video with crf 18 in megui. What else setting you suggest and what coded/bitrate (mono) for audio. PC playbak only.

[Ghitulescu]

hi everybody.
I have this home made video (see attached mediainfo) shooted on cannon 720is digicam. I Want to convert it into Mkv with best available quality also want to convert sound to other format which can retain maximum quality. Can anybody suggest setting. I asked question here cause i am interested in MKV output .
Thanx

Well, you can shot with a cannon or you can shoot with a canon. :)

otherwise, retaining the best quality is only COPY/PASTE. Putting a what-the-hell-is-the-format-A720is-shoots-in into an MKV requires a lot of more information that you gave.

If you intended to shoot movies with a photocamera, then you should have think of these items before buying it, to avoid unpleasant surprises.

[vrpatilisl]

nice joke, my mistake.

[Ghitulescu]

I assume it shoots into MP4, there is a SW presented in this forum to repack these into MKV.

[Guest]

Since you violate rule 9, I move this to Newbies.