Exporting to DivX (Mac)

janus85 · Post by **janus85** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:59 pm

Hi there,
I've just recently remastered some videos with DVD footage and I now want to encode them for the web keeping the best quality possible. I've decided to use DivX because it seems the most widely accepted codec in the AMV community. I've been playing about with it a bit and was just wondering if there was anyone kind enough to talk me through keeping the best quality possible while keeping a nice downloadable size.

The weird thing is that when I do tests with small parts of the video the quality is significantly better than when I export the whole thing using exactly the same settings and bitrate. When doing the whole video it is usually quite heavily pixelated.

I'm using Final Cut Pro to edit and DivX 5 to export.
Thanks very much.

ps. I'm sorry if this has already been covered in another part of the site. So far I havent been able to find anything to help me out.

GMD_God · Post by **GMD_God** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:58 pm

well, i suppose DivX is a widely used codec and whatnot but the thing is it just isn't that great. I had the same problems when I tried that once. The smaller the movie the better quality, if it was up to me then i would just make a quicktime file from Final Cut. I know it won't be as good, but that is what i have come up with for the time being. Also DivX adds the stupid DivX logo in the bottom right corner, if I can think of something else to help you I will post it or send it to you through a PM. Sorry if I am not a big help.

GMD_God

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:01 pm

The DivX logo can be disabled in the options for DivX. It's only added during playback afterall. One check mark and your box stops sh owing the logo.

Anyway, if you're having problems, try exporting the entire movie losslessly or uncompressed and THEN encode to DivX

janus85 · Post by **janus85** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:18 pm

Thanks for your replies, alas i'm still at a loss. It's really annoying how the quality decreases with the length of the video - i don't really see why it should if u set the bitrate, etc - but then i dont know too much of the technical side to DivX. And I have tried exporting the video uncompressed and encoding it then, but it usually brings the same results. I'm thinking there must be a way tho, I mean I've seen some divx videos on here where the quality looks even better than my DVD rips!
Ah well i'll keep on experimenting, and if anyone can offer any more suggestions it'll be much appreciated.
Thanks guys.

milatchi · Post by **milatchi** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:21 pm

Use ffmpegX for DivX and XviD encoding.

janus85 · Post by **janus85** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:36 pm

OK i realise now it was kinda a stupid question for me to ask at the beginning because i'm finding more and more that the 'best' way to encode varies with each video. There are just too many factors to it to just make some universal rule, so i'm jus gonna play it by ear. Thanks for your replies they helped a lot.

Janus