how do I tone down the AVI size in V-dub?

[supatrupa]

When I encode my movies/shows in VDUB, I get great results, but for about 22 minutes of show, I get about 34GB sized AVI file.

Is there a setting on either the video or audio to reduce that a little bit?
My gosh, I have an 160gb drive, but at that encoding rate, I will run out before 120 minutes of video.

[unclebud]

Your saving uncompressed.

In V Dub, Video menu open Compression to pick a codec to use for compression. Then try saving the file.
Also, be sure to go into properties and set up the bitrate and anything else in there. Set them high for best quality.

[supatrupa]

OK,

so with compression, do I still get an .avi file or does it already compose to .mpg2?

thanks.

[DivXExpert]

If you want your final result to be mpg. then frameserve your video to TMPGEnc.

[supatrupa]

yes, I use TMPGEnc. to get a DVD usable MPG.

Are you saying that VDUB will encode specifically for TMPGEnc.?

thanks.

[JayT]

Compress your video wiv DivX5 and youll find you can get your avi down to a few 100megs or so

[supatrupa]

I guess I should list my whole process.

I capture with VDUB to .avi
I then use TMPGenc. to boil down to .mpg2

I use DVD IT! SE and creat the DVD.

My main concern is the first step. My .avi files are big. I will play with VDUB settings to get it smaller, but want to know if there was some place to look at specifically in VDUB's settings to change.

[JayT]

So let me get this straight in my head , u run your file into V-Dub and it comes out a very high file size, its just this side you want to change yes. OK so when you put the file into V-Dub wot codec do you select , audio & video . I tend to use DivX but there is no right or wrong codec, just wot i recomend. Do a full compress on just a minute of the video as the settings stand and then adjust to your desired quality.

[spidey]

If you're looking to SVCD your stuff, I would not use DivX

Look to the left under CAPTURE, for the best quality cap leading to a VCD/SVCD, you'd want to use Huffyuv.

https://www.videohelp.com/capture

[neomaine]

supatrupa,

Ditto on the huffyuv (v2.1). No loss of quality with 1/2 the size. To get smaller even with huffyuv, you'll need to adjust your resolution size. I think I ended up with 576x480 to get it to about 12-14gb per hour.

This will still get you an avi file for input into Tmpgenc.

If you don't have the huffy codec, its listed in the Tools section on the left.

[ZippyP.]

Do not compress the file with any codec other than Huffyuv as will there will be a loss in video quality. Also, it is better to frameserve to TMPGEnc from Vdub, this saves having to save a very large intermediate file to your hard drive when processing/editting within Vdub. If you don't know how to frameserve there are guides on this site. 8)

[CogoSWSDS]

I second that - using huffyuv for good quality conversions to VCD/SVCD/DVD; have also used DivX and find huffyuv to be better quality. For Editing I prefer AVISynth for editing as it can do non-linear editing whereas VirtualDub is linear. Virtual dub is a useful tool though, and I do use it as well. I find there are things that are more easily done in VirtualDub, and some things are easier done in AVISynth...

CogoSWSDS

[scottb721]

Also, it is better to frameserve to TMPGEnc from Vdub, this saves having to save a very large intermediate file to your hard drive when processing/editting within Vdub. If you don't know how to frameserve there are guides on this site. 8)

Why frameserve with VDub into TMPG ?
I just load the VDub AVI directly into the video window of TMPG, use the Range Source to find the bits I want (or don't want), use the cut edit feature and then let it encode.
Is this not a good way to do it?
thanks

[skateni]

Why frameserve with VDub into TMPG ?
I just load the VDub AVI directly into the video window of TMPG, use the Range Source to find the bits I want (or don't want), use the cut edit feature and then let it encode.
Is this not a good way to do it?
thanks

You can do the same in VDub too ( take out the bits you don't want ) before frameserving it to TMPGenc. TMPGenc, with filters on, can be a dog

[ZippyP.]

Why frameserve with VDub into TMPG ?
I just load the VDub AVI directly into the video window of TMPG, use the Range Source to find the bits I want (or don't want), use the cut edit feature and then let it encode.
Is this not a good way to do it?
thanks

Yes, for your application frameserving would be unnecessary. Using Vdub to cut out commercials or to apply filters are examples where you either save to an intermediate file or frameserve. IF the file is compressed when saving then there is quality loss (except for Huffyuv), otherwise the uncompressed file can be very large. Frameserving is a solution to avoid both quality loss and taking up huge amounts of disk space. It's easy to do once you have set it up and I only mentioned it since the original post talked about a 34 GB size file. Just another useful tool to keep in mind. 8)

And yes, TMPGEnc's filters are dog slow and there are alot more available for Vdub!

[SHS]

Hey supatrupa I beat rigth about now your wishing you gotting REALtime Hardware MPEG2 encoder.
I rec 120min at 6MB VBR for my DVD disk and all this done about 3 1/2 hour from Rec the clip to Burn the disk poff all done.

[supatrupa]

Yes, the huffyuv works great. Thanks. It has given me much smaller avi files to work with.