Prepping 4:3 footage for Youtube

[Cauptain]

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Claudio

I've installed the trial, but I see no options whatsoever to set the codec used and at what settings this should use it.
I don't want to use a (near) lossless codec, because transcoding would introduce a long step in the entire production cycle!
This is why Bandicam worked so great for us. You can set up the codecs any way you like.

DXTORY is solution. You can select any codec to encode.



Claudio

[Skite]

Oh wow they certainly updated Dxtory. I'll give it a go.

Anyways, I wrote my previous post too soon. It doesn't have a whole lot of options but you gotta export the recordings and this is where you get to set some things.

Another question, related to the AVS scripts, is there a way to do batch operations? I'd like to convert all the footage I have to 30FPS, including the Railroad Tycoon 2 videos which had that little bit extra with letterboxing.
Are there GUIs or script commands to make it run it's script on everything in a selected folder?

[poisondeathray]

Another question, related to the AVS scripts, is there a way to do batch operations? I'd like to convert all the footage I have to 30FPS, including the Railroad Tycoon 2 videos which had that little bit extra with letterboxing.
Are there GUIs or script commands to make it run it's script on everything in a selected folder?

To create scripts by batches you can use avisynth batch scripter or even a dos batch command or batch file
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Batch_scripting
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79259

To batch encode, you can use something like ffmpeg with a batch command, or there are some GUI's for ffmpeg/mencoder like tencoder that allow you to process a folder

[Skite]

Thanks for the help you guys.
Not only have you helped me get my footage online, which was long overdue, but you've given me insight in how Avisynth works and how to go about it.

Here's the result as far as Railroad Tycoon 2 goes; http://youtu.be/Q8huAVhiJ00
Have a look, I think it came out excellent!

I ended up using the batch script creator and manually running seperate instances of VDub to get them all converted.
I tried using a couple of methods of batch jobs in VDub, but it didn't quite did what I wanted. But the aforementioned method worked well!

Also, because of your help with the FPS issue and me posting about it on Bandisoft's support forum, they've acknowledged the bug and are going to fix it in a feature release!

A one-man applause for you guys! *clap clap clap*

[poisondeathray]

nice work

you guys have a decent following!

http://www.youtube.com/user/LordsOfTheGreenLeaf?feature=watch