How in the heck do they do it!?!

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Ok, I've been trying to do this for some time and I still end up coming out on thw wrong side of bad.

Let me fill you in...

The other day I witnessed a movie that was compressed with Xvid and they had the entire movie down to like 700MB. But it still looked AMAZING!!!!!!

Whenever I try and do something like that, my file still ends up to be 4 to 5 times that sized and the quality is garbage compared to that 700MB file.

GRRRR!!!!!!

I have neer been able to get a 22 minute TV show that I recorded in high def to look anywhere nears as good as the groups seem to release with file sizes of only 200MB.

What am I doing wrong?

Please help.

[stars]

Hi..

A hint use AutoGK and set the video file size to approx 10MB/min

In this way you will get pretty good result.

The audio can be .ac3, mpa or mp3 dont go below 192kbit...

stars....

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Thanks, I will give that a try!

[SCDVD]

Another way you can do this is to use Fairuse Wizard. Set it for 2-pass encoding with the file size set to 700MB (or whatever you want). 700MB is commonly used only because at 700 MB it will fit on a CD. You can experiment with the file size to get the best combination of quality versus file size as you wish.

[Heywould3]

there are lots of reasons they look so good.. one is that the ones that do look great are off a digital master with 6 pass encoding mp3 sound if you want ac3 the files are usually 2x700 or should i say 6 channel sound. if you try to cap with a video cap card cap in avi raw best settings for the source then re encode to xvid multi pass you will get the same results.