converting to mp4

Jasta85 · Post by **Jasta85** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:03 pm

ok, i've been using AE's Technical Guides to all things audio and video version 2 (the one in the org's guides) for a long time. someone showed me version 3 (beta)
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtechbeta/
and i gave it a try but somehow it hates my vista (tried a number of different ways of installing it but something always went wrong. so i went back to version 2. now, the main reason i wanted to try version 3 was to convert to mp4 instead of xvid like i am now. can i download a program using version 2 that will allow me to do that? i think someone recommended Zarx264gui to me but i just wanted to check on the forums first.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 9:32 pm

The amvapp v3 tests are known to fail on vista, but everything should still work fine

Zarx264GUI is easier (so I hear, I haven't actually used it myself >_>) but meGUI is another option (all you need is avisynth, which is what the program uses to load files)

Vivaldi · Post by **Vivaldi** » Sat Nov 08, 2008 11:34 pm

Zarx264gui Works great for, it's what's reccomended in the new beta guide.

Qyot27 · Post by **Qyot27** » Sun Nov 09, 2008 2:03 am

Heck, for that matter you could just use x264.exe itself, via the command-line. As long as you've got the settings you need saved to a text file for reference, it's often simpler than constantly having to go through a GUI to do it (although, admittedly, the last couple things I compressed with H.264 I did use the GUI, as lots of options changed between June and October, and I still haven't gotten around to updating my reference note).

I know that meGUI shows you the command-line it uses for compression in the config dialog, I dunno if Zarx's does.