Cropped Video, Now Need to Encode

[Punkin444]

Hello,

Newbie here. Following directions found in this forum, I downloaded Avidemux and cropped a flv video I had created. It appears to be fine. In the post, which was back in 2009, it mentioned that I would need to encode it afer cropping it. I do not see anything in the Avidemux that says encode, so where would I find encoding software, if necessary.

Thank you

[Baldrick]

When you save in avidemux you encode. Under video and audio can you choose codecs.

[Punkin444]

oh, thank you. However, now that I try to save my video (.flv input) I can't seem to save it as the same thing. When I use the crop component it looks perfectly cropped, but it doesn't seem to want to save it as .flv.

[Baldrick]

What happens?

Under video choose mpeg-4 avc, under audio choose copy, under format choose flv. If it fails you can try use mp4 under format.

[Punkin444]

thank you very much. the flv did not work, it said: "only flv1 and vp6 are supported."

I then did what you said and created an mp4 and that worked, meaning the cropped video appeared perfectly. However, there was no audio.

When I tested the unencoded output on avidemux, there was sound.

[Baldrick]

Try choose an audio codec, under audio choose mp3 or aac.

[Punkin444]

woo hoo! thank you so much. I so did not want to do this project because I knew it would be a nightmare to me. Thank you so much!!!!! I have been working on this all day!!! YAY!!!!

[jagabo]

The FLV muxer in AviDemux can only handle FLV1 and VP6 codecs. But AviDemux doesn't include FLV1 or VP6 encoders. So it can't be used to do what you want. You'll have to save as some other format like MP4 or MKV then use an separate muxer to remux that audio and video streams into an FLV file -- if you really need and FLV file.

[Punkin444]

I see. Thank you. So far it seems to be working fine. I thought that I needed flv only because that is what I had originally. Apparently, it seems, that what the output is does not matter. It seems to be working now. Thanks so much for your input.

[jagabo]

Maybe my version is too old. I see there's a newer version.