What kind of Video and Audio Codec do u guys use?

[confusedhelp]

i know there are alot of codec out there but...

what video codex and audio codec do u guys use to get very good qualities on ur movies... because i seen some avi's and mpeg where its a good 1 1/2 hr to 2 hrs of good quality movies on 700mbs

im trying to achieve a very good quality on a limited amount of space as possible

[pacmania_2001]

I use either DiVX Fast and Low Motion Codecs and one in virtualdub called Microcrap.
Both have good quality and reasonable file size. I'm no expert on capturing so their might be even better but these are very good

[ironwood321]

If you are capturing from an analogue source I recommend using a tool such as avi_io this is worth its registration fee as its a capture program which won't burden your machine when capturing. The codec you should use is huffyuv and you should capture in uncompressed audio. 352x576 PAL 25fps or 352x480 NTSC 29.9fps if you are capturing from video. Full resolution if capturing from live footage 640x480 NTSC 29.9fps 768x576 PAL 25fps. You need a fast processor 800mhz+ and hard disk with a lot of space about 20GB. 128mb ram to be safe (Thanks). Capture your footage and resize if necessary and then re-encode / edit using something like virtual dub and save as divx+mp3 or mpeg.
Remember when reducing use bilinear and when increasing use bicubic smart filter. Also you might want to use smart deiniterlace to make your captures progressive by deinterlacing.

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[Riot_Inc]

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I take it you mean 800Mhz?

and at least 128Mb of RAM would be good for the editing part.

[ironwood321]

hen doing your final processing in virtual dump or frame serving to an mpeg encoder. Its nice get hold of the smart deinterlace filter and smart resize filters.

http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/

Most capture cards will muck up interlace so you will have to make it progressive. This is where the deinterlace filter comes in. Disable Motion Processing in the filter and test the other options in advanced processing (Hint Print out help file) The only option I needed was "Phase shift".

I could tell my video need deinterlacing because I was seeing double images when people moved passed bars or railings. You get the impression that the image moves back 1 frame. When previewing and checking for interlace problems witht he filter run the movie forward only.

Next you might need to resize. Remember precise Bicubic for increasing in size and precise BiLinear for decrease. Plus do not click the interlaced option or the video will be deinterleaved leaving one field instead of merging them to produce a sharper image.

Put the deinterlaced filter before the resize one.

After you've done your editing (direct stream / Mark in / Mark out) save out in huffyuv or your target format and join any peices of video with virtual dubs (direct stream option / Append). Also when using Divx use 1 second key frames and re-encode the audio last of all to mp3 to avoid sync problems.

If you have to do numerous edits etc use huffyuv and finally reduce to you correct format when happy.

For more information see these very helpful guides http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/


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