VirtualDubMod Problem

HardRocker488 · Post by **HardRocker488** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:47 am

Ok. I am using VDM to eliminate the subtitles in a episode I want to use for a music video. The problem is that when I save it it takes up over 20 gigs of space. I want it to be near the original 100 MB or so. I am not sure what to do. Please help.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:57 am

You only encode clips you entend to edit with, not entire episodes. That said, when you are all done with your clipping, your clips folder may be a few GB in size... You can either deal with that or encode the clips from vdub into something other than HuffYUV... i believe there are a few smaller sized options available.

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 2:44 pm

first of all, I think your sig image is too big...

second, with the exception of Huffyuv and Lagarith which are lossless (data is compressed to save space), the other codecs are lossly (you loose data to save on space). What you gain in quality for editing by using a lossless codec is a larger file (about 1 gig a minute of video file), and for the most part, you want to edit with the best files you've got.

If you are tight on HD space, my suggestion would be to do your editing with the original file you have and then clip out the subtitles when you're done editing all at one time.

just a suggestion...