A few things to help you with your vividcon vid files
Hey folks,
it will soon be the time where many a vid will be uploaded to us (Challenge and Club Vivid deadline is 11:59 pm April 26, 2013 - two weeks!). To reduce the amount of teeth gnashing, I've made a few tools to help you out.
1) Newer, improved LlamaEnc
You can get vividcon's m2v/wav encoding program for both PC and Mac from that download page. I'm making improvements all the time based on user feedback. New versions will now check for even newer versions, too.
Some new features I've added recently:
2) New improved Llamamatic
This is the tool we use to make the dvds for the con. You can use it too to make your own dvds and to test the files that you have. If it works with Llamamatic, it works for us. There is no explicit Mac version but the Mac version of LlamaEnc comes with Llamamatic and you can switch between the programs with F12.
Llamamatic can also now make mp4s and mkvs (we use these for nefarious purposes internally) and is quite handy.
3) A shiny new vid-checking website! (currently in beta, let me know if it breaks!)
Even if you don't want to (or can't) use the above tools, you can check to see if your files pass some basic tests. You'd be surprised at how many long-time vividcon submitters give us slightly malformed files. (Sending in 44100Hz audio is a surprisingly common oversight).
The site is super-quick, only a few KB of your files are uploaded and checked against a whole manner of settings. Let me know if the page works for you or if it fails, looks wonky or some other horror occurs. I'm using fancy new web technologies and they might not work on all browsers.
If you have any technical questions regarding your vids, feel free to send an email over to vvctech at gmail dot com and we'll try our best to help!
it will soon be the time where many a vid will be uploaded to us (Challenge and Club Vivid deadline is 11:59 pm April 26, 2013 - two weeks!). To reduce the amount of teeth gnashing, I've made a few tools to help you out.
1) Newer, improved LlamaEnc
You can get vividcon's m2v/wav encoding program for both PC and Mac from that download page. I'm making improvements all the time based on user feedback. New versions will now check for even newer versions, too.
Some new features I've added recently:
- If you have Llamamatic installed (see below) you will be given the option of authoring a test dvd so you can see for yourself how it will look at vvc.
- There is an option for making raised videos, so for those of you with widescreen vids who want to make a 4:3 encode with the vid generously raised to help those sitting at the back of the vid room. This is entirely optional but it's there if you want it.
2) New improved Llamamatic
This is the tool we use to make the dvds for the con. You can use it too to make your own dvds and to test the files that you have. If it works with Llamamatic, it works for us. There is no explicit Mac version but the Mac version of LlamaEnc comes with Llamamatic and you can switch between the programs with F12.
Llamamatic can also now make mp4s and mkvs (we use these for nefarious purposes internally) and is quite handy.
3) A shiny new vid-checking website! (currently in beta, let me know if it breaks!)
Even if you don't want to (or can't) use the above tools, you can check to see if your files pass some basic tests. You'd be surprised at how many long-time vividcon submitters give us slightly malformed files. (Sending in 44100Hz audio is a surprisingly common oversight).
The site is super-quick, only a few KB of your files are uploaded and checked against a whole manner of settings. Let me know if the page works for you or if it fails, looks wonky or some other horror occurs. I'm using fancy new web technologies and they might not work on all browsers.
If you have any technical questions regarding your vids, feel free to send an email over to vvctech at gmail dot com and we'll try our best to help!