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Once you're done with editing, it's time to save your work.


The important thing to remember is: You can't always save your work in the original format.

What ? Wasn't this supposed to be a nice movie editor for the rest of us ? 


OK, we're not perfect, but SimpleMovieX is still probably one of the best product to this regard: It supports native editing of QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.


Understanding limitations

Saving has a few limitations coming from the underlying multimedia technology. First of all, some codecs are one-way, they just open and decode but cannot encode or save. This is the case for example of mp3. In this case, the only possible saving options are QuickTime format, that always works, or re-encoding if the codec allows to do it.

Re-encoding means loss of quality and a very lengthy process.

QuickTime format is great as long as the "final customer" can read it. For example, set-top boxes can usually read DivX AVI and MPEGs, but not QuickTime format.


The second limitation is related to container format capabilities. While QuickTime can do almost anything, MPEG and AVI cannot handle chapter, resizing or mixing media from several sources. Therefore, for AVI, MPEG, the following actions will be discarded when saving:

and finally mixing media from incompatible sources will probably force you to save in QuickTime format.


A lot of ways to save your work


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