Problems with compression

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:30 pm

So I just finished an AMV, and have saved it as a AVI using Sony Vegas 0.6. The problem is, the finished file came out to be VERY big, since I'm trying to keep as much quality as possible. Problem is, I can't seem to shrink it without losing lots of quality.

I heard VirtualDub could compress videos, so I downloaded that and tried it. The only setting that made the video go lower than 1 GB was a Divx one, but the video quality suffered horribly. That's the only way i really know of compressing videos, so could someone please help me out? Thanks in advance.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:32 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

Bauzi · Post by **Bauzi** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:15 pm

From Bauzi:

If you want to go with the future... XviD is very good, but this one is much better, but much more harder to handle:
http://aflux.deltaanime.net/Zero1/MP4/x264.html

I recommend x264!

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:44 pm

Kariudo wrote:http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

Thanks. That did help me, but I can't seem to compress the vid under 169 mb now :/

Bauzi: Thanks, I'll try that out, but it suuuuure looks complicated @_@

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:02 pm

did you follow the instructions in the guide?
if you don't do everything that it says, your video will be harder to compress and you won't get as good of a result.

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:59 pm

Yeah. I'll try a few more things later, I've got it down to 120 mb now. So i'm almost there, I suppose.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:41 pm

Don't forget to... well, consult my signature.

Hagaren Viper · Post by **Hagaren Viper** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:24 pm

Alriiiiiiiiiight, I think I have the hang of it now. I'll probablly test it a couple more times, but I'm pretty sure I'm good now. Thanks for your help, everyone!