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[sweetdeily]

then what codec should we use?

Huffyuv is the codec you should /ideally/ be using in this program. Lagarith doesn't work properly on most days in WMM. Sometimes Xvid/DivX does work but depending on the phase of the moon it varies -_-;
All in all though, you should be using huffyuv as it is a lossless codec i.e. better image quality is preserved.
If you Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> it will show you how to encode in huffyuv. It might be a little hard to understand at first, but after doing it a few times it gets easier. ^.^

I hope that's what you were after. ^^

[Kumatora]

Excuse, but why shouldn't I use Xvid/Divx files? I've successfully made 5 AMVs with them(not on here at the moment) and the only reason I can see why not to use them is the watermark which can easily be taken out.

[JaddziaDax]

because the codec is buggy and sometimes will just stop working out of the blue

[Kumatora]

Weird. Under what video format because when I rip mine, I use AVI.

[Scintilla]

Excuse, but why shouldn't I use Xvid/Divx files? I've successfully made 5 AMVs with them(not on here at the moment) and the only reason I can see why not to use them is the watermark which can easily be taken out.

- They use temporal (inter-frame) compression, which requires that the editor process not just the frame requested but all the frames to which it refers... this isn't good for stability or frame accuracy
- They've already been through a round of significant compression from their original source (be it a DVD or a captured TV broadcast), which means that your finished distro file is going to look significantly worse than if you'd used DVD footage straight (or compressed with a lossless codec such as HuffYUV)

I'd be able to give you a whole page on it, except that amvwiki.org is kind of gone.

[Purge]

Excuse, but why shouldn't I use Xvid/Divx files? I've successfully made 5 AMVs with them(not on here at the moment) and the only reason I can see why not to use them is the watermark which can easily be taken out.

- They use temporal (inter-frame) compression, which requires that the editor process not just the frame requested but all the frames to which it refers... this isn't good for stability or frame accuracy
- They've already been through a round of significant compression from their original source (be it a DVD or a captured TV broadcast), which means that your finished distro file is going to look significantly worse than if you'd used DVD footage straight (or compressed with a lossless codec such as HuffYUV)

I'd be able to give you a whole page on it, except that amvwiki.org is kind of gone.

google to the rescue get it while you can

[Scintilla]

AWESOME. And I thought we were screwed after archive.org didn't have that page.

Okay, so, everyone who likes to post my and other flashing banners might want to start having them link <a href="http://www.aquilinestudios.org/DivX_Edi ... l">here</a>.

[JaddziaDax]

thanks scintilla

[Kumatora]

Excuse, but why shouldn't I use Xvid/Divx files? I've successfully made 5 AMVs with them(not on here at the moment) and the only reason I can see why not to use them is the watermark which can easily be taken out.

- They use temporal (inter-frame) compression, which requires that the editor process not just the frame requested but all the frames to which it refers... this isn't good for stability or frame accuracy
- They've already been through a round of significant compression from their original source (be it a DVD or a captured TV broadcast), which means that your finished distro file is going to look significantly worse than if you'd used DVD footage straight (or compressed with a lossless codec such as HuffYUV)

I'd be able to give you a whole page on it, except that amvwiki.org is kind of gone.

O RLY? I can see a little quality decline but nothing major. Mostly, it's just slightly darker. Also, does this only apply to DIVX MPEG-4?

[CrackTheSky]

O RLY? I can see a little quality decline but nothing major.

"Nothing major" is a very relative term.