No space for 26 HuffYUV encoded files

mannayz · Post by **mannayz** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 12:41 pm

I encoded (before I read the guide) all the episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion to DivX 5 and tried them in my video editing software, but they had really crappy quality and made the program slow down a ton. So I decided to read the guides and do it the right way.

Unfortunately I don't have enough room to store, while editing, 26 files registering about 7 gigs a piece. Is 7 gigs normal for a 20 minute long, HuffYUV encoded, progressive avi? Or am I doing something wrong?

If that's normal, what options do I have available to lower the file size and still retain decent quality?

ajew · Post by **ajew** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:29 pm

if you really have to make mjpeg of them to save space but man get ready for shit quiatly. Just get a bigger harddrive best thing you can do.

ajew · Post by **ajew** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:29 pm

or take out the audio.

ajew · Post by **ajew** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:30 pm

You could in thery reencode the vob to a lower bitrate mpeg 2 say like svcd template may work well and then do mjpeg.

mannayz · Post by **mannayz** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 1:49 pm

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:27 pm

The point of ripping DVDs is so you don't have to have these massive, full-quality, HuffyUV versions of complete episodes. Your D2V project files and AVS scripts are what point back to the ripped video streams in the VOBs.

What you should create from these AVS scripts, if you'd like, are extremely low-quality Motion JPEG AVI files. MJPEG is a nice codec that can range from shit quality to even a lossless version. By creating "duplicates" of the AVS script files as low-quality MJPEG AVIs, you've got two of the exact same thing: low-quality, fast loading, easy to edit with files... and the original, slow, full-quality ones.

Personally, I like putting the MJPEG AVIs around level three in quality.

You edit with the MJPEG AVIs. It'll look like crap, but that's not the point... they're simply there to edit with. When you're ready to export, you just throw these MJPEGs into a folder like "hidden" that you create. When Premiere asks where the files went, you tell it to open the corresponding AVS script... and boom, you've got the full-quality files replaced into where you previously had the low-quality ones.

That's the theory behind the "switch" method, anyway, which is the whole point ^^.

mannayz · Post by **mannayz** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:58 pm

But I still have to be storing the huge files in order to point premiere their direction.

mannayz · Post by **mannayz** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:06 pm

nvm, you direct it toward an AVS script, not AVIs. I see now.

I'm not using premiere though, so I don't think I can do that. I'm using magix music maker.

godix · Post by **godix** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:08 pm

If worse comes to worse just rip one episode at a time. Then using Vdub or something go through and make clips of the scenes you'll be using. Delete that episode and move on to the next. If you turn off sound you'll save some space and if you use huffyuv you won't lose any quality. It requires a lot of planning to do since you need to know ahead of time which scenes you need. Using this method you'll probably never use more than 10 to 15 gigs at once unless you're doing a really long AMV. I personally still do things this way even though I have plenty of HD space just because I find it annoying to scan through an entire 20 minutes episode in Premiere, short 2 second long clips are just easier for me to deal with.

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:08 pm

Make clips of the scenes you want to use.