Final product clarity

Aneino_Kaijin · Post by **Aneino_Kaijin** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 11:16 am

How does everyone export their files? I've been doing wmv for a while, which looks fine small but blurs when made bigger. So I've been experimenting with avi and mpeg and they look a little better small, but they are not only much bigger, but pixelate terribly. I followed the guides, before I'm told yet again to go read them. :-p

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 12:03 pm

I export to HuffyUV for my "proof" copy, then I encode in MPEG-1, DivX 3.11a, and Real Player 9 (DANG that codec has good compression for low bitrates!)

Oh, and I port the Huffy version through Virtual dub with the 2dcleaner filter to clear up the image - it even improves DVD video (it's always satisfying when your AMV has better video quality than your source!)

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 12:20 pm

I use Quicktime (YUV 4:2:0 planar compression format) for preview and "proof" renders, and DivX 5.02 for distribution. QT eats up a lot of disk space, but for quality it's hard to beat

I'd really like to try some of the other low-bitrate codecs -- e.g. RealPlayer 9, Windows Media -- but I just don't have the $ to get the software to do that.

Petro · Post by **Petro** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 1:24 pm

trythil, You might want to check out Huffy if you're really into HQ "proof" files. You end up with massive files, but Huffy is LOSSLESS! ^_^

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 2:12 pm

I'd use HuffYUV, if I was using Windows for editing. Alas, I'm not, and I don't really have the time to port the code.

If there IS a Linux port of the thing floating around, though, heck, I'll take it. Recompressing to Quicktime YUV, while it is lossless (AFAIK), results in HUGE files -- bigger than HuffYUV. (I mean on the order of 10-11 GB (!) for an ~11 minute 720x480 @ 29.97 FPS RGB161616 source.

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Petro · Post by **Petro** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:05 pm

Sorry, I don't know of any linux versions out there :-/ You could ask the creator of the codec. He might be able to help you. If you use YUV mode instead of RGB you can get 0.5 GB files for 640x480 4 minute long video. It's usually about 1-2 GB if you do the RGB for that length, but some programs don't like the YUV version ^^;;

Good luck!
-Petro

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 5:11 pm

trythil is probably okay, 1GB/min is about equal to what Huffyuv gives us.

~klinky

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:19 pm

Assuming you're running Linux on a PC, you could always either run a Windows emulator under Linux or install some version of Windows onto a different partition, then you'd be able to use all the free Windows video compression utilities.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Aug 02, 2002 6:41 pm

jbone wrote:Assuming you're running Linux on a PC, you could always either run a Windows emulator under Linux or install some version of Windows onto a different partition, then you'd be able to use all the free Windows video compression utilities.

I actually do have an old Windows install on this machine, but I haven't booted into it since...last year

Maybe I should try to dust it off.

As far as emulation goes: It's possible, but I'm too poor for VMware (if I could buy that, I'd buy Premiere too

), and WINE -- well, let's just say that they need to get their regression-test suite in order BEFORE I'll ever start trying them out again. (There is no excuse for the kind of incredible breakage that project has undergone in the past six months.)