Lossless video codec?

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Lossless video codec?

Postby SoldierHeart » Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:32 am

Im using huffy, but its darkening my videos so i have to use gamma, which is destroy the quality. Have i missed some huffy settings or should i choose another codec?
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:40 am

huffyuv is not darkening your encodes at all... it doesn't do that.

There must be some other explanation for the change in luminance such as the luminance being higher on the natural playback of your source.
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Postby SoldierHeart » Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:06 am

Seems your right, get it darkend even when using uncompressed. Any ideas as of why? Im using Premiere and it looks bright in the preview but the saved file is darkend.
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Postby klinky » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:44 am

What are you using to compress it ?


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Postby SoldierHeart » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:54 am

None or huffy. DivX 4 for finals.
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Postby klinky » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:58 am

Err :o


Premiere ? VirtualDub? Flask ?


Something else ?



VirtualDub would be the best method :|


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Postby RadicalEd0 » Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:02 pm

More importantly what are you using to play back and judge the brightness. If one of your overlays has a different brightness setting than the other, obviously it's going to be different in certain players than in something like virtualdub or premiere.

On another note DivX 4 is not recommended. Get xvid or the divx 5.03 codec, there's no reason not to but plenty of reasons why you should :\
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Postby The Wired Knight » Thu Feb 20, 2003 3:52 pm

I don't know why it's darkening your video, I use HUFFY all the time and never experience any problems like that. Go with what Klinky suggested and use Virtualdub, I do the same and never have any problems with my encoding. (Save for the one fact that Virtualdub isn't the fastest program out there)
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Postby SoldierHeart » Thu Feb 20, 2003 5:55 pm

I use Premiere for uncompressed, then virtualdub for divx, i found most people dont have divx5 and divx4 to be just as good.

When i import files into the timeline in premiere and view the right preview window its all bright, then when i save as uncompressed its darkend.
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Postby Brad » Thu Feb 20, 2003 6:25 pm

what about when you build an actual preview in premiere? like, not exporting. just hitting enter and let it render like that, then look at it in the preview window. how does it look then?

if its dark then, check the opacity (rubber bands) of all your layers, check any effects and such.
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Postby SoldierHeart » Thu Feb 20, 2003 7:51 pm

No, its not dark in the preview build.
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Postby Brad » Thu Feb 20, 2003 8:35 pm

o_o that is indeed strange...... So it exports dark with ANY codec you use?

When you export, click Settings, then Special Processing, and Modify. Is Gamma on 1.0? If not, change it. If so, is it still dark?

If its still dark, then I'm stumped. :\
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:00 pm

gah. it dosent matter what codec he's using if his overlays are messed up.
Most people don't have divx4 either. And it's definitely not as good as DivX 5.03, XviD, or DivX 3.11. If you want the most support use 3.11, and the quality is better than 4 when making proper use of nandub and it's SBC capabilities.
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Postby SoldierHeart » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:15 pm

There we have it, gamma was set to 1.3 in special processing, thx for the help everyone.

Were can i get divx 3.11? Im using the hacked DivX ;-) MPEG-4 Low/Fast-Motion codec, think thats version 4.
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Thu Feb 20, 2003 9:17 pm

oh, nah :/ that is divx 3.11. Good job. DivX 4 is a crappy first sprout from opendivx, just forget about it and never think about it again.
As long as you're using Nandub to compress it and using the SBC options, the quality should definitely be up to par.
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