what to do....

BMXRIDERSI · Post by **BMXRIDERSI** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 6:48 pm

here's the thing......

i have over 20 episodes of anime fansubs encoded in DIVX. Of course we all know they dont work well in premiere so i need to encode to another file that will work well in premiere.

First i tried MJPEG out of virtul dub with a quality of 20(max) and 1 episode was 5 gigs...which is way too much. I tried 1/2 the quality and the file size was 500 megs which was good but the quality was terrible.

Absolute helped me a little before giving up and going to sleep with the avs file. I tried one episode and i put the location and stuff in the avs file.....it played in the media player but did not go into premiere. Premiere said i was missing a codec or driver.

well then i just said screw it!! i'll just try tmpgenc.......the quality either didn't come out great or the time to encode was going to take 2-3 hours and episode -_-

help please

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 6:54 pm

Get a new, bigger hard drive and convert everything to Huffyuv, or get the DVDs to use as your source. Those are really the best two options.

BMXRIDERSI · Post by **BMXRIDERSI** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 6:56 pm

??!!! bigger hard drive??!!! dvds??!!! i am a 16 year old with no job and no money how am i suppost to do that.......

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:00 pm

You're 16, so you can get a job.

Really, you have no other good options. Buying DVDs would let you make a high-quality product; getting a big hard drive would help prevent any further loss from your current crappy-looking source.

The optimal solution would be to get a big hard drive and use it to rip more DVDs and to give yourself additional scratch space.

BMXRIDERSI · Post by **BMXRIDERSI** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:07 pm

i guess i could do that...but how big do HD's get and how much??? i already got an 80 gig. And dvds also must be expensive becuase i doubt they have them down here in hawaii...........might as well just buy the biggest HD i can get and ecode to HQ footage...............

right my video will be done in a few years ^_^

oh well........

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:07 pm

Dude edit with the DivX...that's it....yeah yeah.....

If you got nothin' else might as well wressle with it.

I'd reccomend using Virtual Dub to clip out scenes, use Direct Stream copy and No Audio when exporting.

It's best to also chop off on keyframes when exporting via DSC.

~klinky

projekt_navi · Post by **projekt_navi** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:08 pm

you misspelled MPEG ...

and also .. dood ... codecs suck! just do your music videos as mpeg!

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:08 pm

Whoa you have a 80GB and don't have enough space?

Maybe you need to delete some stuff, or maybe a burner would be a better investment.... Heck those are only like $50.

~klinky

BMXRIDERSI · Post by **BMXRIDERSI** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:12 pm

yes 80 gigs but i share this computer with my mom and brother so it sucks...hehe

anyway yeah i have a dvdrom and cdrw drive but what exactly can i do with that

by the way is it possible i can simply add another hard drive without taking out my currect one?? like just addinga new HD like nothin really happened?? i want it for my own personal use

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Tue Aug 06, 2002 7:14 pm

hell, I have a 40GB HD and I'm lasting with 5GB free to encode the rest of my Cowboy Bebop eps (using a ripping method which involves CladDVD XP, DVD2AVI and finally TMPGEnc) from the DVD. Once I delete the vobs from the DVD, I'll have about 13GB. My advice is to buy the DVDs and rip them.

3 hours an ep isn't that bad. I've got an AMD 450MHz PC, it takes 2 and a half to 3 hours to encode one episode and that's with leaving the PC alone.

Project Navi: MJPEG is a codec. It's an advanced for of MPG, or some shiznit like that.