428 CHAPTER 11: Digital Video: Streaming Video, MediaPlayer, and MediaController classes
Now that you have your 400 frames of digital video data in an AVI format that Sorenson Squeeze
can import, you can go into Squeeze and proceed with the video compression (data footprint
optimization) work process.
Applying Video Compression: Sorenson Squeeze 9
Next, we’re going to use Sorenson Squeeze Pro to compress the digital video asset. One of the
reasons I utilized Terragen 3.1 and VirtualDub is to create completely uncompressed source video
with zero compression artifacts. If you want this same pristine data using a camera, you would use
Firewire, capturing full frame uncompressed (raw) video data to your hard disk drive, instead of going
through the on-camera MPEG or Motion JPEG codec.
- Install Squeeze 9 and launch it.
- Next, click on the Import File icon on the upper-left, as seen in Figure 11-22.
Notice the Squeeze software has left panels for holding codec, filter, and
publishing options, a top preview area, and a bottom timeline area, which
we will be using soon to apply our codec presets to your flyover.avi file.
Figure 11-21. VirtualDub loads 400 frames into an uncompressed AVI, showing the progress stats