Kariudo wrote:well, you're right about getting someone to comment...
mpeg is lossy, which should be avoided if possible (even divx/xvid is better)
the thing about running it through the other programs is that it makes:
a: better quality footage (assuming you contimue to part b...and know what you're doing with the footage)
b: easier to work with in programs such as AviSynth (which could take care of the filtering instead of vdub)
Kariudo wrote:I have a few questions...
1: are you just working with 1 .vob? (from 1 episode, ~25min) with just 2 filters, it shouldn't take 8 hours to transcode*, or are you transcoding vobs from a movie/many vob files put together with dgindex?
*this statement depends on question 2
Kariudo wrote:2: what are your computer's specs?
Kariudo wrote:now for some suggestions.
I would reccomend transcoding your vob/d2v files with a lossless codec such as lagarith or huffyuv...but this takes up a lot of space.
if you don't have that much space, I'd reccomend transcoding with xvid (1 pass, highest quality) (as opposed to divx) until you take clips.
*instead of importing entire episodes, I reccomend taking clips in vdub(/mod) and encoding them with lagarith/huffy and importing the clips.
this allows you to store the episodes in a space-efficient manner and use them later for editing, while retaining most of the image quality
you might loose a little quality by doing it this way, and there are other ways of prepping footage while reatining all of the quality (see ErMaC and Destiny child's guide to all things audio and video)
madboyv1 wrote:I also wanted to go with lossless codecs, but when I tried one and the resulting file was 118 GB for a single episode (that was on my desktop which has the space, but a lot slower in processing terms) I figured, not only did I do something wrong, but if I did right, then I couldn't be editing on my laptop due to HDD space constraints.
Melanchthon wrote:Just one little comment...madboyv1 wrote:I also wanted to go with lossless codecs, but when I tried one and the resulting file was 118 GB for a single episode (that was on my desktop which has the space, but a lot slower in processing terms) I figured, not only did I do something wrong, but if I did right, then I couldn't be editing on my laptop due to HDD space constraints.
118GB for a twenty-minute video? That sounds more like uncompressed to me. 10GB an episode is about right for Huffyuv, and less for Lagarith.
You can use VirtualDub filters in AviSynth by using LoadVirtualDubPlugin. More info on that here.
madboyv1 wrote:doing the conversion with the filters being done in aviSynth or having Vdubmod doing it makes no difference in time . and the estimated total time atm is 7 or so hours... Something ain't right.
mpeg2source("C:\goddess_rip\OMG - 04.dvs)
KillAudio()
Telecide(post=1, order=0, guide=1, blend=true)
Decimate(quality=3)LoadVirtualDubPlugin("smooth.vdf", "Smooth", 3)
LoadVirtualDubPlugin("smoothIQ.vdf", "SmoothIQ", 3)
mpeg2source("C:\goddess_rip\OMG - 04.dvs)
KillAudio()
Telecide(post=1, order=0, guide=1, blend=true)
Decimate(quality=3)
ConvertToRGB()
Smooth()
SmoothIQ()
SmoothIQ()
ConvertToYUY2()Kariudo wrote:regarding your last post, if you set blend=true, you will get a smoother looking picture (smooth motion)...but unfortunately it becomes quite visible when the video is slowed down.
madboyv1 wrote:In regards to that, Premiere and After Effects can't read my Xvid AVI, but other editors (WMM and Pinnacle Studio)and media players can. Any ideas?
messed this one up...oops (long night at work) meant to correct this earlierKariudo wrote:see ErMaC and Abolute Destiny's guide to all things audio and video
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