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Re: Simple Export Options

 

Good point - although most of the existing options would work it would make
sense to have some options optimised for the desktop. As you say, not sure
what settings go together though.

2009/10/1 Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>

> I was thinking about the simple export screen (in preparation for another
> blog post), and it seems like we are missing 1 important use-case for the
> simple tab.  Often, after creating a video project, I just want to save a
> video to my desktop as a certain format (avi, mpeg, quicktime, etc...).  You
> know?  I don't want to format it for a website or for a AVCHD disc, etc...
> If I switch to the "advanced tab", I have to know all the valid combinations
> of video and audio codecs, supported bit rates, etc...
>
> What do you think about this:  Adding a new "*Type*" on the simple tab
> called "Formats" (or something like that).  Here is how I would envision the
> dropdowns working:
>
> 1) Project Type: * Formats*
> 2) Target:  *AVI*  (or MPEG, MP4, MOV, OGV, MTS, WMV, etc...)
> 3) Profile:  *DV NTSC*  (or DV NTSC Widescreen, etc...)
> 4) Quality: *Low*  (or Medium, High, etc...)
>
> I think we should only add the most common formats, and the most common
> profiles and quality settings.  The best part of this plan is it won't
> require any programming, just creating more /export_presets XML files.  It
> should be that simple.  The hardest part is determining which formats,
> codecs, profiles and quality settings go together.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
>
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