Publish your movie on SGLtv

lovely Keith Chegwin has kindly put together a guide on how to convert your movies to the required format for SGLtv use giving you the best possible quality in the shortest possible time.....

Righteo chaps so here goes, a tutorial on how to convert your movies to .flv

Download FLVTools.rar from this link

The rar file will contain: FFmpeg.exe and FFDShow

Install FFDShow

Paste FFmpeg into the folder that the movie that you wish to convert is in.



FFmpeg is a command based program, so you will need to create a batch file will the correct commands in to get it to work..


There are various syntax's that you can use to get FFmpeg to do different things.. resolution size, bitrate, Sample Rate, framerates, aspect ratio etc. all you will need is Resolution size, bitrate and sample rate


Ok, now.. Assume i have a video called, Bear.wmv and i wish to convert it to .flv


I want the movie to have a bitrate of 1500k, resolution to be 800x600 and the same rate at 44100 (flv needs this syntax to work)


FFmpeg -i Bear.wmv -b 1500 -s 800x600 -ar 44100 Bear.flv


Ok lets break this down..


FFmpeg -i [Input] -b [Bitrate] -s [Resolution] -ar 44100 [Output.flv]


Any type of movie can be converted whether it be .avi .mpeg etc. all that is required is that you change the input filename. E.G


FFmpeg -i 5manHS.avi -b 1500 -s 800x600 -ar 44100 5manHS.flv



So.. Onwards to the doing bit..

FFmpeg is in the same folder as the movie that you want to convert.

Open notepad and type


FFmpeg -i MovieFilename.avi/wmv/mpeg -b 1500 -s 800x600 -ar 44100 MovieFilename.flv

Pause


Save the file into the same directory as the movie and call it Movie.bat

Open the folder and open Movie.bat

a cmd.exe box should appear and it should look something like this





As you can see from the screenshot, it is encoding, depending on how long the clip is, it shouldnt take took long.

When it is finished, you should see the following..





The .flv should appear in the same folder as the movie that you just converted, if an error occurs, paste the log into this thread and i will reply asap.

You will be able to copy the log by right clicking on the cmd box and clicking "Select all" and then pressing Ctrl+C


Send a link to the newly converted file .Flv to mail@thesgl.com along with a short description of the movie.

Do post on the forums if you have any questions or troubles.

GL chaps, any questions, post em on here and il do my best to give an answer

safe

I wonder if anybody has submitted any vids yet.. :/ LOL

Guess not

LOL

keith chegwin = legend !

The real guy and the sgl guy ! ill try adding a video tonight

props andy, good tut =]