The Lagarith Lossless Codec...

Derek16438 · Post by **Derek16438** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:41 am

Ok, so I just ripped some movies from my game, and I used the Lagarith Lossless codec to encode them with. I used the DVD2AVI application to do this. The ripping and encoding is complete, but my 3MIN movie is over 1GB!!

Is this normal!?

Scott Green · Post by **Scott Green** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:43 am

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue May 27, 2008 6:53 am

Yea, pretty much. Depends on the resolution of course, but definitely expect lossless files to be big, even if it's Lagarith.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:37 am

Welcome to the world of pretty, lossless footage.

It takes a lot of space, but your end-product will look better for it. I suggest a nice external HDD if you ever start straining for disk space. 750GB drives are becoming much more reasonably priced these days. ^_^

Derek16438 · Post by **Derek16438** » Tue May 27, 2008 1:56 pm

Ok, so when the project is finished, then the file is gonna be around 1GB too??

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue May 27, 2008 3:13 pm

Yes - and they you compress it for distribution.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue May 27, 2008 3:32 pm

Yea.

If you're working with DVD, you have a bunch of different options - you're still looking at multiple gigs per 1 DVD at the end, but you can economize during editing by using something like the bait-and-switch method.

If you're working with anything else however, you have to use lossless video unless you want your editor to crash every minute and/or quality problems.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue May 27, 2008 3:39 pm

if you disable the audio that will help

Derek16438 · Post by **Derek16438** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:40 pm

Alrighty...Thank you everyone.