Hello ML users 
First steps with video here. I have 50D that makes gorgeous videos thanks to ML. I'd like to compress them a bit. I'm going to use video rarely and I don't see myself as a video producer, so a little quality loss is acceptable. I'm shooting in 480p instead of HD.
The resulting MOV files are beautiful, but every step I try to encode these is screwing them really bad. I understand there are going to be compression artifacts, but the results are worse than I expected.
I tried with mencoder in that way:
mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1000 -o output.avi MVI_1792.MOV
Experimented a bit with the bitrate parameter (btw what is the default bitrate for ML? I haven't tweaked any settings for this). The output video quality varied between "crap" and "very bad".
Then I tried to upload the MOV directly to YouTube and the result was maybe even worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2M0PGaqb8g
The only good thing I saw there is the "reduce camera shake" option. It makes the handheld shot movie very smooth.
How do you proceed with video files in Linux?
First steps with video here. I have 50D that makes gorgeous videos thanks to ML. I'd like to compress them a bit. I'm going to use video rarely and I don't see myself as a video producer, so a little quality loss is acceptable. I'm shooting in 480p instead of HD.
The resulting MOV files are beautiful, but every step I try to encode these is screwing them really bad. I understand there are going to be compression artifacts, but the results are worse than I expected.
I tried with mencoder in that way:
mencoder -ovc xvid -xvidencopts bitrate=1000 -o output.avi MVI_1792.MOV
Experimented a bit with the bitrate parameter (btw what is the default bitrate for ML? I haven't tweaked any settings for this). The output video quality varied between "crap" and "very bad".
Then I tried to upload the MOV directly to YouTube and the result was maybe even worse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2M0PGaqb8g
The only good thing I saw there is the "reduce camera shake" option. It makes the handheld shot movie very smooth.
How do you proceed with video files in Linux?