The Idiots Guide to Vegas

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:36 am

chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote:You're very welcome

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.
Thanks, I was wondering why one of my AMVs had blocky parts in it. Is there a quick and easy way to change a file from divx to something that works in Vegas?

What I usually do is open the divx file in VirtualDub and re-encode it into something different

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:37 am

Ladymercury wrote:
chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote:You're very welcome

Actually, in your media pool tab, in the top right hand corner it lists the video's codec. It'll say " video codec: divx/audio codec: mp4 " etc. I know in Vegas 4 it says that. Usually, though, you can find out a codec by the way the program responds to the footage. Almost instantanously Vegas will fag out the footage by making blocky if its divx/xvid. You can also find out the codec if you play it in like winamp and load the properties.
Thanks, I was wondering why one of my AMVs had blocky parts in it. Is there a quick and easy way to change a file from divx to something that works in Vegas?
What I usually do is open the divx file in VirtualDub and re-encode it into something different

Though, I may warn you that some depression in the quality of footage may happen.

chronicdevil · Post by **chronicdevil** » Tue May 30, 2006 9:50 am

Ladymercury wrote:Though, I may warn you that some depression in the quality of footage may happen.

That can't be worse than having blocky parts...

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Tue May 30, 2006 10:06 am

chronicdevil wrote:
Ladymercury wrote:Though, I may warn you that some depression in the quality of footage may happen.
That can't be worse than having blocky parts...

Very true

Ladymercury · Post by **Ladymercury** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:07 am

HEY HEY HEY

I complied the tutorial into a website form: http://vegas.aoi-tori.org/

Go ahead, browse. Look at how pretty it is.

Hopefully it'll get listed on the org!

Shadow Blade · Post by **Shadow Blade** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:22 am

I have a question, what will be the best encoding for a DiVX\Xvid that I can encode an entire episode with. Huffy will take 20GB from my PC so are there any other options?

uchihaclan13 · Post by **uchihaclan13** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 12:58 pm

Is the best codec to re-encode divx/Xivd files huffyuv? Or is there a better one to encode it in Virtualdub? Also is there a difference between Virtualdub and VirtualDubMod?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:19 am

to help out (mainly because I'm bored and have nothing better to do at 2 am)
for whole episodes, you're probably better off leaving it encoded with divx/xvid until you take clips.

you can take clips in Vdub(/mod) by using the mark in/out buttons on the bottom center side (the two rightmost buttons)

when you save your clips, you can select huffy as the codec.
this makes the filesizes more manegable while giving you editable footage

perhaps a better choice to huffy is Lagarith (lossless codec), though lagarith has been known to cause a few issues from time to time, it yeilds smaller filesizes.

VdubMod differs from Vdub in the range of footage it can import (along with other things, like built in avs script editor).
mod can import .mkv, .ogg and mpeg2 files (Vdub didn't support these formats)

BlindNoir · Post by **BlindNoir** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:06 pm

I noticed on your site that you have section five linked to section 2. Might wanna change that.

BlindNoir · Post by **BlindNoir** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 1:07 pm

SORRY double post. Section six is linked to section five.