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centos 6.3 server running zm 1.25
I can export an event to avi file but the resulting video is coarse and pixelated, lacking the sharpness and definition of the original frames, it often makes faces unrecognisable. I can get round this by exporting the event at 3 x normal size and them reducing the avi file again but this seems a strange way to get a decent video from an event. Is there some setting I can adjust so the exported avi is as good as the original event?

Try this settings in Configuration::Images:FFMPEG_OUTPUT_OPTIONS:

-r 25 -qscale 1

Hope it helps,

PacoLM

thanks for your response PacoLM, that -r 25 -qscale 1 did the trick. Exported videos are now as good as the original.

The other alternative is to add the following to the output options: -b 20000000 which makes the bitrate of the output video 2mbit