Reducing size

[Vax]

Bookmarked..

Thanks alot Krisgo, Scintilla, Qyot27, and Aaron for the external link.

I won't ask for a lock unless somebody else another plan for my dilemna.

[mirkosp]

Small thing: you don't need to remake the fake avi file unless you change one or more of these things:
- Colorspace
- Resolution
- Framerate
If you only have quality filters commented out, such as the ones you have commented out in your script, uncommenting them in the end and saving the script will suffice.

[mirkosp]

Small thing: you don't need to remake the fake avi file unless you change one or more of these things:
- Colorspace
- Resolution
- Framerate
If you only have quality filters commented out, such as the ones you have commented out in your script, uncommenting them in the end and saving the script will suffice.

Egh, no edit button here... of course when I said framerate, it also means that anything that might change the length itself of the video (such as the trim() ) requires a new fake avi to be made, and not only framerate conversions (like with changefps() for example).

[Scintilla]

You should have gotten DGVFAPI as part of the DGMPGDec package (which includes DGIndex and the DGDecode plugin).

[Vax]

Then import the avs file into VFAPIConv and convert. Import the fake AVI you made into your program and edit away.
When your video is done. Go back to your AVS files and delete those "#". Import the AVS files back into VFAPIConv and convert again. The original fake AVI files without the filters will be replaces with the high quality ones and the clips in the video will update too.

Do I do it after I export or overwrite the video while it is still in the program? Because I just tried it out and the quality was ugly.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Then import the avs file into VFAPIConv and convert. Import the fake AVI you made into your program and edit away.
When your video is done. Go back to your AVS files and delete those "#". Import the AVS files back into VFAPIConv and convert again. The original fake AVI files without the filters will be replaces with the high quality ones and the clips in the video will update too.

Do I do it after I export or overwrite the video while it is still in the program? Because I just tried it out and the quality was ugly.

You make the video with the commented files, close the NLE, take out the comment tags, reprocess the footage and overwrite the old files, then reopen the NLE and export.

[Vax]

You make the video with the commented files, close the NLE, take out the comment tags, reprocess the footage and overwrite the old files, then reopen the NLE and export.

Thats excatly what I did. It took about 25 minutes to export 18 seconds, and at the end there these black dotted lines around the edges of the characters, and the sound quality comes out horrendous, though it might not be a factor of this.
I'll try again and see.

[BasharOfTheAges]

What codec did you export with? Does the video look like that when you open the uncommented AVS in VdubMod?

[BasharOfTheAges]

What codec did you export with? Does the video look like that when you open the uncommented AVS in VdubMod?

Let me expand on that because i don't want to keep going back and forth all damned day.

If you exported with anything that isn't lossless, you did it wrong. Completely uncompressed exports would rule out any possible problem there.

If the video looks the same in vdub, then your filtering did it. learn to avisynth.

if the video doesn't look the same in vdub, then check your project settings.

• Is your project set to the same AR, PAR, and frame size as your source video?
  Is your project progressive like your clips (should probably be)?
  Did your export preferences reflect the project settings too?

[Krisqo]

^ What he said. I've been using this method for almost 3 years now and it has worked flawlessly until now.