joined files with virtual dub over 18 gig??

[scotty00]

I joined 2 avi (die another day) after i join like 1/3 the way it it said i ran out of space? and the file was 18 gig? i did the what the tutorial at vcdhelp said. what am i doing wrong? the file isn't suppose to be this big.

[djhoward]

Not sure which tutorial your doing, but VirtualDub by default saves in uncompressed format - it should of warned you of this and that the result will be very big. You need to set a Video compression to get the size more acceptable. Video | Compression and select a well supported codec e.g DivX 4 then try again.

[scotty00]

i did save it in dvix compression. but the quality came out so damn bad.
i think i did it on 3divx one.

now i tried the divx 4 and i get this program failure..

"crash reason: interger divide by zero"?

[LanceSteel]

Just load the first avi and then 'append' the second. Then under the video tab select 'direct stream copy' instead of 'full stream processing'. Then do 'save as' under the file tab. This will just splice the two avis together without having to encoded the streams. If you encode a divx stream using divx it will look like shit.

[scotty00]

thanks lancesteel.. that is what i wanted. and joinning was fasts... doing this would it decrease the quality of the audio?

[LanceSteel]

It shouldn't decrease the audio quality. It just takes the two streams and bit-for-bit slaps them together.