Getting the best out of video quality....

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Getting the best out of video quality....

Postby DarkSchneider » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:56 pm

Hey all,

Recently I tried experimenting with codecs. I'm trying to rip some footage from all the Final Fantasy games I got(key scenes really) in preparation for an FF Video. But recently I've ran into some problems. Everytime I think quality will be bitchin, it ends up lookin like shit. Basically, I'm trying another codec other than DivX 5.0 (Don't want the corner things showing up in EVERY scene I'm trying to rip and encode) Does anyone have any suggestions, and/or codecs that they can point me out to? Thanks! :D
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Postby zalas » Sat Jun 21, 2003 6:29 pm

If you want, you can try outputting to something using HuffYUV, although that takes a lot of space. You can also try MJPEG or even XVid with quantizer set to 2.
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Postby DarkSchneider » Sat Jun 21, 2003 6:33 pm

Where do I get MJPEG and XVid?
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Postby MindBug » Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:59 pm

Someone referred me to this guide and I have found it to be very helpful with my many questions.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... index.html

This guide has a lot of good methods for ripping video in almost the exact perfect quality of the source. Also has a long section on the PROs and CONs of various codec, how commonly they are used, and their downfalls. It's worth checking out if you are really going for that high level of video quality...

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Postby the Black Monarch » Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:25 pm

The DivX logo in the corner is actually not encoded onto the video itself. It's a playback option, and it can very easily be turned off.

Also, I'd recommend using IVTC BEFORE you encode the VOBs to something else. Progressive frames are much easier to compress than interlaced ones.
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Postby Farlo » Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:36 pm

for some reason in some of my old videos the divx logo burned into them...kinda messed up huh?
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Postby CArnesen » Sun Jun 22, 2003 7:17 pm

el_farlo wrote:for some reason in some of my old videos the divx logo burned into them...kinda messed up huh?


That's what you get for editing DivX files... :D
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Postby Dannywilson » Sun Jun 22, 2003 11:25 pm

el_farlo wrote:for some reason in some of my old videos the divx logo burned into them...kinda messed up huh?


You can turn that off. It's somewhere in the divx settings something along the lines of "Display Logo".
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Postby the Black Monarch » Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:09 am

What he's saying is that turning that option off didn't get rid of the logo.
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Postby Dannywilson » Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:27 am

the Black Monarch wrote:What he's saying is that turning that option off didn't get rid of the logo.


Actually, if you encode with the setting turned on, it burns the logo Cartoon-Network style into the corner of your video. You could see this all over the place at the Akon awards. Peoples footage would have it off an on throughout a whole video(IE:one clip would have it and the next would not).
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Postby the Black Monarch » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:17 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Actually, if you encode with the setting turned on, it burns the logo Cartoon-Network style into the corner of your video.


Really? I encoded stuff with the option on, and turning the option off made it go away during playback.

Maybe it's a version thing.
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Postby Tab. » Wed Jun 25, 2003 11:44 pm

it's like this

divx networks is a sneaky bitch who either stuck the directshow decoding into the actuall codec dll, or programmed the directshow decoder to hijack vfw decoding of DivX files. That means if you're opening divx encoded files in, say, premiere or virtualdub, all decoding options apply, including postprocessing and I'm assuming this logo thing.

I guess CArnesen was right, thats what they get for using DivX to edit :?
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Postby the Black Monarch » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:08 pm

Okay, I have a solution:

Use that Vdub filter that lets you put your own logo in the corner. Use your own logo to cover the DivX logo. Problem solved :)
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Postby klinky » Tue Jul 01, 2003 5:34 pm

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Postby Tab. » Tue Jul 01, 2003 9:24 pm

nice solution hatter
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