Encoding to Huffy or Lag using MAGIX (2 questions)

OzzieAlThor79 · Post by **OzzieAlThor79** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:07 pm

2 Issues:

1.It cuts off my AVI at 1.85 Gigs every time. Using either codec. It then creates another AVI that has the rest of the song and footage. It basically cuts it in 2.

Digging around in the help and manual, it says that most of the time an AVI has to be 4 GB or more before it should be doing that. Is there a setting I am missing to stop that from happening? The second part of my video (the second AVI I mentioned) is only about 385 MB so the file should be roughly 2.3-2.5 gigs.

2. Using either Huffy or Lag, the audio is really choopy and I think it affects the video because it's slowing down the frame rate. If I try to save my video without audio, the footage isn't choppy at all.

What I tried to do was Compress the audio using the LAME MP3 option. Right? Wrong?

Thanks!

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 3:06 pm

is this footage you're preparing for editing? because you should be do that through virtualdubmod.
in which case, you don't need to keep your audio. and you should only compress audio on your very final export.

lagarith and huffy has slow playback on most machines. it should play and scrub in your editing program just fine though.

if this is a finished amv, then i don't know. but don't compress the audio.

OzzieAlThor79 · Post by **OzzieAlThor79** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:41 pm

Minion wrote:is this footage you're preparing for editing?

No.

because you should be do that through virtualdubmod.

Correct. Already done. I have many gigs of clips from all 3 shows (deinterlaced and everything) to import into Magix (And WMM before it).

in which case, you don't need to keep your audio. and you should only compress audio on your very final export.

"Very Final Export"? To be clear, are we talking about when the movie is done in Magix or when I try to compress my footage? If it's not when I export the video from Magix, where am I supposed to add said audio?

lagarith and huffy has slow playback on most machines. it should play and scrub in your editing program just fine though.

Which it does. I am doing what I did with WMM now though to get a feel for the program. I take a number of different scenes, try a few affects, and then Export to see what my end prodct will look like compared to what I see when editing. (This thought process is the only reason I had even part of a video for your contest)

And none of this solves my "When I export as an AVI, it splits my file right at 1.85 gigs every time and the help section doesn't say where there is a setting to change that" issue. Any ideas for that one?

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:31 pm

by final-final export, i mean the version you upload to the org. you can compress the audio in vdub

Rapture** · Post by Rapture** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:45 pm

i know that this probably won't help,but why not try to export as uncompressed? since it's AMV,then it won't take much space - as for 5mins (that's just my example) it would take max of 10gigs (at least it's like that at my pc). then convert it trough vdubmod.

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 7:03 pm

as a temporary fix, you can append the files in vdub

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:48 am

The 1.85GB (2GB) max file output happens to me also when I export with Huffyuv. I believe it is a limitation with Magix and Huffyuv.

MEP and VD2 do not reliably support all codecs at large sizes. Depending on the codec you will get different "results" (eg. HuffyUV codec in MEP makes un-unusable AVI if over 2G.) .

At the moment, I don't have a project that will output larger than 2GB in Lagarith to test how large it will export. But exporting in Uncompressed video (as rapture16 suggests) will have nearly no limit (depending on your file system).

Like Minion said, with Huffyuv, you could export as usual and join the segments in VirtualDub/Mod (or with AviSynth) when you compress the video (and audio) for distribution.

OzzieAlThor79 · Post by **OzzieAlThor79** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:58 am

Thanks for the ideas. I'll bump this later when I have a completed video to Export and elt you know how it worked.

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 11:49 pm

What version of Magix are you using? I recall this being a problem when I was using Music maker or Movie Edit Pro 10, but I haven't had that problem with Movie Edit Pro 11. I honestly can't remember if I figured out how to fix it myself, or 11 does that on it's own.

I'll have to poke around later for ya.