Best Settings in VirtualDubMod to get high qualty video

[hzgg2]

Hi! I am using VirtualDubMod to edit a Divx Movie file to Avi (Xvid-MPEG4). Can anyone suggest me the best settings for configuring Xvid Mpeg4 so I can have the best quality??

[guns1inger]

Quality based with a setting of 2 or even 1. Of course you may find the bitrate of the new file is higher than that of the old file, so the file will be larger. But the quality will be the same as the source.

[BiggerJim]

The quality of your video will only get worse by recompressing the video. It cannot get better than the original material

If you only want to cut the movie (no filters or effects) you should try to avoid recompressing the video stream. Use direct stream copy, if it is OK that you cut only at keyframe positions. Otherwise, use VirtualDub 1.7 or later and chose "SmartRendering". This will recompress only the parts between cut and next keyframe, leaving the rest of the movie in original quality. For this option, try setting your codec to the same quality as the original movie is.

[jagabo]

Hi! I am using VirtualDubMod to edit a Divx Movie file to Avi (Xvid-MPEG4). Can anyone suggest me the best settings for configuring Xvid Mpeg4 so I can have the best quality??

Use the latest VirtualDub 1.8 beta instead of VirtualDubMod. Enable its smart rendering feature. If your editing is only cuts it will only rerender small portions around the cuts. If you cut on keyframes there will be no rerendering at all. And it will only take seconds to save the new file.

If you're doing more extensive filtering you can use either program. But the newer versions of VirtualDub are better and more bug free than VirtualDubMod. There are very few reasons to use VirtualDubMod anymore.

If you're going to use Xvid and only care about quality, not file size, use Single Pass, Target Quantizer mode with a quantizer of 1 to 3 (1 is pointlessly large, 2 is visually nearly identical, 3 will be very slightly degraded). If you really want the higest quality turn off B VOPs. The "General Purpose" quality preset should be adequate.

[Placio74]

Smart rendering... good idea.
It present in stable 1.7.8 too.
When used Smart rendering - recompress only fragments (not all) video, but need to use same codec as used in source.
Can use some filters on fragments used Curve editor.

[meldavid]

Does anyone know if there is a way to get VirtualDubMod to remember the last window size like it works in VirtualDub? Whenever I open a VirtualDubMod window it's always a large window, larger than the video frame size and I'm constantly having to resize the VirtualDubMod application window, which gets annoying.

VirtualDub on the other hand remembers your last used application window size, which is better behaviour.

[guns1inger]

vdubmod is rarely updated, so some of the niceties that newer versions of vdub have have not been moved to vdubmod. Live with it, or start using vdub unless you absolutely have to use vdubmod (I keep both around, because there are some things that vdubmod handles better than vdub, but for most things, it has dropped too far back in features)

[meldavid]

Yeah I use both depending on the job. Just thought there may be a way to set it to remember window sizes that I couldn't find, but seasoned users know about.

[jagabo]

Remembering the last Window size and position is a function that has to be built into the program. VirtualDubMod does not do this.

[Placio74]

As above...

It was added in VirtualDub 1.7.0.
(From changelog: "The main window and job control dialogs now save their positions.")

VirtualDubMod is based on VD 1.5.10 (much older version).