VDub/Huffyuv->ULead Video Studio

[yamato72]

After singing the praises of capping in VDub with Huffyuv, then editing in ULead, I have to confess that it only works for me with clips shorter than 3.5 minutes or so. I'm having the problem that richpjr describes here:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73655

I've talked to richpjr and he's never gotten it to work either. Has anyone here succesfully edited a huffyuv-compressed AVI (of decent length) in ULead VideoStudio 6?

Please help.

[thxkid]

I have done family music video's using HollywoodFX Gold plugin for transititions where the video's are anywhere from 3.5 to 5 minutes and as a finished product of either VCD or SVCD, I can't get anything to work past the 480x480 resolution, tried 704x480 and ends up being jerky, so I stick with either 352x240 or 480x480 and have no problems, I use WIN98SE also.

[snowmoon]

Try frameserving it from vdub/avisynth, as that may work around your issue.

[ROBO1964]

In Vegas Video 3 any Huffy format video is reversed and upside doen and a mass of colored dots. Their technical supports says that Huffy has some severe problems that several editing programs have problems with and recommended not using it until after its captured.

That does work for that program and it might work for yours as a work around.

[yamato72]

I've experimented a bit and tried the "Save as old format AVI" in VDub prior to opening a capture in VideoStudio. That seems to work. I'm not clear on what the difference is, though. Does anyone know? And who here has used Video Studio 6 and can recommend it? I've already tried Pinnacle Studio 7 and found it to be a powerful editor, but it wouldn't open huffyuv-compressed caps and had poor export (compression) options.

[snowmoon]

In Vegas Video 3 any Huffy format video is reversed and upside doen and a mass of colored dots. Their technical supports says that Huffy has some severe problems that several editing programs have problems with and recommended not using it until after its captured.

That does work for that program and it might work for yours as a work around.

Go into hufyuv configuration Vdub->video->compression->huffyuv and select RGB output and that will fix the color blob problem, also send a simple note to the author with the name of the program.

Old format avi = AVI 1.1 vs AVI 2.0/OpenDML Old style format was restricted to 2gb MAX, but the new format can support as large as your filesystem supports. Using the frameserver would have fixed the problem too.

[yamato72]

I thought about frameserving, but I thought that the file would have to be served "sequentially" from beginning to end to VideoStudio, and I didn't think it would work for non-linear editing. Am I just being stupid?

More wierdness: The "save as old format" does let me create a >2GB file in VDub (my individual clips run about 400 seconds, around 3-4GB.

Even more wierdness (if frameserving would fix this too I apologize): If I capture a 4-minute clip in VDub, then immediately open it in Tmpgen and start encoding to mpeg2, Tmpgen estimates about 30 minutes to encode. If I instead delete out the garbage at the beginning and the end of my capture file in VDub and save it (direct stream copy), then open the file in Tmpgen to encode, it estimates 3-4 HOURS. If I save that edited file in VDub to an "old format AVI," then Tmpgen estimates 30 minutes again. Is this a problem in VDub? Should I try VirtualVCR?

Background: I'm capping Hi8 at 720X480 for burning to DVD, so my final resolution will be either 720X480 or 352X480. I'm not cropping out garbage on the edges, nor am I deinterlacing since this will be viewed on a TV. I'm archiving my home videos.

Thanks in advance.

[ROBO1964]

snowmoon I tried that and my card won't allow that selection or any RGB selection yet I have seen it capture files in tha format but VDub won't allow me to select it as it says its not supported.

[snowmoon]

No... in the huffyuv compression config dialog ( not format of your card ) select always suggest RGB output. This normally fixes the problem where some applications get the wash of colorsinsted of your actual video.