Exporting with Boris RED 3GL.

[Aeolis]

- I hope this post is in the right place -

Hi folks,

First I have ACE Mega Codecs Pack 6.03 installed. Second I had ffdshow installed together but I’ve uninstalled it recently. Third I had a good looking .avi movie and now when I work on it in VirtualDub it looks a little degraded I’ve encoded it with CCE to check if degradation was only when playing in VirtualDub, but not it was degraded.

Now I’ve explained the history let’s check the biggest problem. I’ve worked in a small movie with Boris RED 3GL and now I want to export as a movie. When I try exporting as .avi the software comes with configuration tab. I choose the codec I want, but the particular configuration tab for the codec settings is grayed (don’t work) and in the codecs list opening step the Boris engine seems to freeze and takes a long time to open.

What do I do:

1. Uninstall Codec pack?
2. Uninstall codec pack and install only the essential codecs for audio and video? If yes want are the best codecs to have (remember only essential)?
3. Uninstall everything and install only ffdshow? If yes give me a clue of what is the best version to use because newer version seems to be buggy.
4. Is it a know Boris RED bug?

Suggestions?

See you later,

Aeolis

[guns1inger]

codec paks are bad news. I would have left ffdshow on the machine and killed the codec pack.

I would also check that your desktop settings are at least 24bit colour depth (32bit is even better), and that virtualdub is also running at at least 24bit (performance settings in virtualdubmod)

[Aeolis]

Hi folks,

Thank you guns1inger you were right. I’ve have uninstalled the codec pack and cleaned my system after that I’ve installed only the essential codecs (HuffYUV 2.1.1, DivX 6.1.1, Koepi’s XviD 1.1, QuickTime 7.0.4, Lame MP3 3.96.1 and AC3ACM 1.2) and Boris RED 3GL now exports like a charm and configures the particular codec settings as well.
Sorry guns1inger, but I think I’ll not install ffdshow as everything is working fine. I had it installed once and it worked well, but I fear to create some conflict with the codecs I’ve installed.

I still have a problem with the movie I talked in the first post. A time ago the same movie looked fine (not awesome, but fairly good) and now it looks a little blocky or degraded (by degraded I mean picture with blocks and that blocks cause a small melt visual effect, they’re not dancing blocks). I thought it could be DivX 6.1.1 decoder built-in deblocker so I turn off all decoder and player post processing; now the picture looks blockier, but less “melted”, more stable image I mean.

guns1inger I've already changed VirtualDub color depth to 24-bit(TrueColor), but it didn't solve the problem.

By the way this question came to my mind: Avisynth AVISource command use a Avisynth internal codec or the same codec VirtualDub would use to open a .avi movie?

See you later,

Aeolis

[guns1inger]

It uses the system codecs, but works in the original colour space, whereas Virtualdub works in RGB. This can cause some quality issues. You can preview in MPC or VLC instead of virtualdub.