lossless conversion to alternate containers

[krohm]

alright sounds good, i was hoping to avoid avisynth and virtualdub but i guess there is no avoiding them.

ill check them out when i get some vids that wont import to vegas.

thanks again for the long routed help, gave me some hope for this board. cheers again

peace

[Chris K]

thanks again for the long routed help, gave me some hope for this board.

The reason the offered help took so many posts is because of what you asked for in your first post (at the other thread).
After leaving off all kind of terms like "copy" etc. and now only focus on frame accurate editing, the question can be answered quite easily.

But this question is asked many times before and you could have done a simple search for it.

Personally I find "gave me some hope for this board" still rather arrogant and insulting.

[jagabo]

Full D1 video compressed with HuffYUV will usually run 20 to 40 GB/hr. Lagarith will be a little smaller, maybe 15 to 30 GB/hr. These codecs are flexible in terms of frame sizes and frame rates.

Another possibility is DV. It's not lossless but it is high quality and all I frames so it's very edit friendly. DV runs about 13 GB/hr. DV must be full D1 (720x480 29.97 fps NTSC, or 720x576 25 fps PAL). If you source does not have these characteristics it must be converted to them.

Motion JPEG (MJPEG) is fast, lossy and all I frame. You can control how lossy it is (the more you compress the more you lose). MJPEG is flexible in terms of frame sizes and frame rates.

Another tool for remuxing and converting is AviDemux. It accepts a wider variety of source formats than VirtualDub (at least VirtualDub without a bunch of source plugins) and can produce a wide variety of output containers and codecs. For your purposes though you only want AVI which both can produce.

[krohm]

that sounds like a good option for the lower quality editing ,and for higher quality source i use huffyuv , and if i can frame to frame edit both of those. that would be ideal for a lot of the video in lower quality. and use huffyub if the source is really high like an mkv or mt2s or something.,

ill have to lookup how to use huffyuv and avisynth scripts etc. sounds good though looks like i have pretty much all info i need, cheers jagabo poisondeathray n mini2dvd, helped me heaps getting in the right direction here. really wasnt up for wading through tons of reading so yeah cheers