delogo in Vdub

[jam99]

Hi.

I'm attempting to remove a logo from a video file that is ~550MB using Delogo in VirtualDub. I followed this guide which is well written:

http://neuron2.net/delogo132/delogomanual/delogo.htm

and the finished test product is excellent but when I go to Delogo the entire video file it starts to process it but predicts the file output to be ~10GB.....I let it go for awhile and sure enough when it was 1/2 way through it had used 5GB of my HD space - so I stopped it. Am I missing something or have the wrong setting(s)? Shouldn't the output file be approximately the same size as the input file? Thanks in advance.

[FOO]

You have to tell Vdub what codec to use on output, and set the codec up if possible. Vdub by nature just spits out raw video which is huge.
I usually frameserve vdub output to an encoder to get MPEG2. No large intermediate file that way.

[jam99]

Thanks for replying FOO:

Could you walk a newbie through what you suggested?
TIA

[ZippyP.]

Frameserving feeds the video directly from Vdub to your encoder. It does two things, no intermediate file to fill up space and no re-compression which robs quality. guide here.

[jam99]

Thanks a lot ZippyP.....I followed the guide except I had to change the file name around to allow TMPGEnc to recognize it and it worked great. Again thanks for helping me out.

[ZippyP.]

You're welcome!