Program/software for comparing 2 videos side by side?

[Mocha]

Is there a program which allows one to play 2 videos side by side for comparison? I haven't decided whether to encode a divx into 2 or 3 svcds. If 2 svcds, then the bitrate would be around 1700, and if 3 svcds, the bitrate would be up to 2530. However, I encoded 2 samples of exactly the same clip with different bitrates, and I would like to be able to play both at the same time with the same settings so I could compare the 2 clips to see if the bitrates make a difference.

Playing one clip, then loading another clip isn't helpful because I can't "remember" all the details of the previous clip.

Thx

[bottle-necked]

Take a screenshot.(?)

[Tommyknocker]

Hey, Bottle, he said to play them side by side.

[gmatov]

I just opened Win Media Player twice and played 2 different movie files at the same time, side by side.

Both looked as good as one event does,so I don't think CPU utilization would keep you from doing that.

Give it a try with your preferred player.

Probably have to use the files from the drive, maybe CD and DVD-ROM if they are already burnt, but they might have to be on different IDE channels, or the drives will take turns reading.Might not be a prob, also might.

Cheers,

George

[racer-x]

I'm thinking of doing this when I get my new camcorder. I'll shoot the same scene with both cameras. Since I'll be using DV-AVIs, I'll fire up Premiere and put one clip in the track above the other one. Then I could either crop the top one, or use a track matte to overlay half of the top video onto the bottom video. This should give a nice side by side comparison.

I don't play with Divix, so I don't know what editor will work with them.

I don't know if this might work, but you may be able to open one clip in PowerDVD and one im Media Player.

[Tommyknocker]

AviSynth can render them side by side as well. Just make take a few moments to get the chance to see them both together.

[bottle-necked]

sorry wrong button

[Tommyknocker]

No you do not "haft" to explain anything to me. A screenshot will only show two screencaptures. The two videos will not be playing side by side. If that were the case, I could save a bundle by looking at a poster rather than going to a movie.

[fmctm1sw]

I just opened Win Media Player twice and played 2 different movie files at the same time, side by side.

Both looked as good as one event does,so I don't think CPU utilization would keep you from doing that.

Give it a try with your preferred player.

Probably have to use the files from the drive, maybe CD and DVD-ROM if they are already burnt, but they might have to be on different IDE channels, or the drives will take turns reading.Might not be a prob, also might.

Cheers,

George

I tried this but WMP just keeps the same window open and closes the other video that is playing. I thought there was an easy way around this but I can't remember what it is.

P.S. I think I saw "Bugster" talk about comparing videos side by side in a number of other threads. He may know a technique...

[Tommyknocker]

AviSynth can run four videos at the same time. Guess no one is listening. Pity.

[fmctm1sw]

AviSynth can run four videos at the same time. Guess no one is listening. Pity.

How? Do I serve them into two instances of virtualdub?

[bottle-necked]

Hay guys, look at the dates on this post. I made the same mistake myself. I don't know how I got on this thread awhile ago, but I did. I posted before I seen what thread it was, then changed my post.

I don't know what happened but this is an old post we're on.

[Tommyknocker]

Tommyknocker wrote:
AviSynth can run four videos at the same time. Guess no one is listening. Pity.


How? Do I serve them into two instances of virtualdub?

Not exactly. You open four videos at once in AviSynth. Have Virtual Dub mod render the video script to a separate filename. When it is finished, the new video will run all four videos at once. This code assumes all four videos are in the C: root directory. It will run in a 720 x 480 window:

q1=AVISource("c:fmctm1sw1.avi").BicubicResize(360,240) 
q2=AVISource("c:fmctm1sw2.avi").BicubicResize(360,240) 
q3=AVISource("c:fmctm1sw3.avi").BicubicResize(360,240) 
q4=AVISource("c:fmctm1sw4.avi").BicubicResize(360,240) 
l1=StackHorizontal(q1,q2) 
l2=StackHorizontal(q3,q4) 
StackVertical(l1,l2)