File Size Advice

[Solace]

I was hoping some guru could help me out.

I have a 2 minute video clip that was originally captured from a DV camera. Initially the file was about 400 megs. Using Tmpgenc, I outputted the file to a divx avi file which reduced the file size to about 100megs. I plan on keeping this clip on my hard drive so I would like to get the file size as low as possible (without losing quality, the great paradox . I was wondering if anyone had any tips, codec recommendations, etc that could help me out. Thanks much.

[tonofsteel]

Im not a guru but, Is not 100 megs a very small file?? You want it to be smaller than that? How much hard drive space do you have? I personally think XviD encoded files look better, but just my opinion.

[Solace]

100 megs isnt bad, but it seems a bit large for a 2 minute clip, does it to you?.

[Capmaster]

100 megs isnt bad, but it seems a bit large for a 2 minute clip, does it to you?.

It is. That's 3GB/hour. A bit high.

[MpegEncoder]

I was hoping some guru could help me out.

I have a 2 minute video clip that was originally captured from a DV camera. Initially the file was about 400 megs. Using Tmpgenc, I outputted the file to a divx avi file which reduced the file size to about 100megs. I plan on keeping this clip on my hard drive so I would like to get the file size as low as possible (without losing quality, the great paradox . I was wondering if anyone had any tips, codec recommendations, etc that could help me out. Thanks much.

TMPGEnc does not output Divx files, only mpeg.

[thor300]

Im more found of Xvid than divX, and Virtualdub for encoding AVI. If you need to keep the DV resoulution at 720x480/756 you cant get much smaller file without it getting blocky and stuff. Did you remember to convert the sound? DV use PCM at 32000hz, or 1024kbps, can save some megs there. From what i tried with DV to XVid you cant go much lower than 4000kbps before it can be a noticeable quality loss in some parts, so maybe 40-60MB at the minimum with good picture and decent sound. Coz you said "without losing quality", right...

When i do DV to Xvid i like to deinterlace it and resize it to 352x288, then the bitrate can be set approx 4 times lower. For this type of deinterlace simple set it to "discard field 2" and thats all, the file is going to be resized anyway.

[johns0]

"MpegEncoder
TMPGEnc does not output Divx files, only mpeg.

Tmpgenc does output divx files,just load in the clip and file/output to avi and choose divx as your compresser.

[teegee420]

First of all, I would use the original 400mb DV AVI file as your source for re-encoding. If you use a Divx or Xvid video bitrate of 1200kpbs and 192kpbs for audio, the resulting file will be about 20 megs.

[MpegEncoder]

"MpegEncoder
TMPGEnc does not output Divx files, only mpeg.

Tmpgenc does output divx files,just load in the clip and file/output to avi and choose divx as your compresser.

Wow, I've used TMPGEnc for a long time and never noticed that. Thanks.