Converting to MPEG-2

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Sat May 15, 2004 11:46 am

Well here's the story in brief: I finished my new video but my computer was dying big time, every program was constantly fucking up so I burnt an MPEG-2 of my video, along with an XVID, and reformatted my HD. Now that I have everything up and running, it looks like that burn was a total failure so all I have left of my video is a mediocre quick encode I made of the video as a Beta.

so, I've heard I can convert this XVID into HUFFYUV and then into MPEG-2, but I have no idea how. If anyone knows how I can do this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Also is there any filters out there that can re-salvage some video quality? The current video I have right now isn't bad, but it could certainly be a lot better.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sat May 15, 2004 11:49 am

the best video quality you will ever get is from the source footage. its downhill from thier. basicaly your screwed (if your that desperate just recreate the amv)

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Sat May 15, 2004 2:29 pm

bum wrote:the best video quality you will ever get is from the source footage. its downhill from thier. basicaly your screwed (if your that desperate just recreate the amv)

Eh well, I can live without having really great quality I guess. Still though, I would like to enter it into otakon, is there anyway to get the xvid to huffyuv and then into mpeg-2?

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat May 15, 2004 4:07 pm

You can use TMPGEnc to encode it to MPEG2. It has a 30 day free MPEG2 encoding trial.

Why do you want to make a Huffyuv file? Just go straight from Xvid to MPEG2.

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Sat May 15, 2004 5:02 pm

Corran Productions wrote:You can use TMPGEnc to encode it to MPEG2. It has a 30 day free MPEG2 encoding trial.

Why do you want to make a Huffyuv file? Just go straight from Xvid to MPEG2.

Not really sure to be honest with you. Some person reccomended it for filtering purposes, but unfortunatly, he's at ACEN right now with the other person who happened to be helping me out with video stuff.

The video really does need some serious filtering work, but I think I'm going to just have to skip it. eh well.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Sun May 16, 2004 2:56 am

Why not do the filtering with AviSynth and open the AVS file in TMPGEnc?

moooooo · Post by **moooooo** » Sun May 16, 2004 5:55 pm

Janzki wrote:Why not do the filtering with AviSynth and open the AVS file in TMPGEnc?

I was trying that, but there must be an error in my scripts. I really can't get any sort of script to work at all, but the test script works so it has to be installed correctly. As you can tell, I really suck at this part. So frustrating.

Mushkin · Post by **Mushkin** » Sat May 22, 2004 5:08 pm

bum wrote:the best video quality you will ever get is from the source footage. its downhill from thier. basicaly your screwed (if your that desperate just recreate the amv)

Your wrong...However you can get better quality...Then again I use a 10,000 program called shake....But your still wrong as you can adj the gop settings in tmpeg and get your better to look better the the source...to a point....

mOObio · Post by **mOObio** » Sun May 23, 2004 4:50 pm

Actually shake for linux is 5k not that the cost means shit and dont see why you mentioned it. Bum is also not wrong you cant make a compressed video look better than the source.. you realize you can also filter the source video to make it look even better as well?