Need suggestions on how to compress

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Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby Creative Name » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:37 pm

Hey people!

So after unsuccessfully uploading my AMVs to the org, I realized that it keeps failing due to the max 100MB size. I always wondered why is would quit half way through :lol: So, I guess I am looking for suggestions for how to best compress. I've been just exporting from Premiere uncompressed and converting to mpg, so my files are all 200 or so MB. Recently, I tried exporting/compressing to huffyuv and lagarith and converting to mpeg, but its still over 100MB. Dare I use Xvid?

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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby Mastamind » Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:55 pm

Try running those uncompressed files through Zarx264GUI, the resulting mp4 files should be smaller and higher quality :up:
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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby NeoQuixotic » Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:47 pm

H.264 is the way to go. It has become the defacto standard for web video now. Zarx264GUI is very good, or if you want to go a bit more complicated MeGUI works too. You could use Premiere/Media Encoder to create H.264s, but the quality is terrible, especially at low bitrates.

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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby Creative Name » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:21 pm

Smaller AND better quality? That seems a little too good to be true.

Turns out that I have zarx264gui on my computer somehow, and once I remembered how to make an avs file,

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Thanks again! This website is my EASY button :mrgreen:
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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby Mister Hatt » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:31 am

Smaller, more quality, BETTER THAN ZARXGUI/MEGUI? YES YOU CAN! Grab a fadecomp patched copy of the latest x264 tree from JEEB. Grab his new avs 2.6a build while you're there too, it's sugoi nais for a non-ICL build.
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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby mirkosp » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:44 am

Mister Hatt wrote:Smaller, more quality, BETTER THAN ZARXGUI/MEGUI? YES YOU CAN! Grab a fadecomp patched copy of the latest x264 tree from JEEB. Grab his new avs 2.6a build while you're there too, it's sugoi nais for a non-ICL build.

http://x264.fushizen.eu/?p=230

Link since he forgot. :asd:
You should be able to change the x264.exe in zarxgui with the 32bit build of x264 you find there just fine. You'd have to tweak the settings to make use of them though, I believe...
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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby HalOfBorg » Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:40 am

Creative Name wrote:Smaller AND better quality? That seems a little too good to be true.

Turns out that I have zarx264gui on my computer somehow, and once I remembered how to make an avs file,

O
M
G

Thanks again! This website is my EASY button :mrgreen:

Zarx264GUI has been updated several times - get the latest version.

http://amvhell.com/stuff/zarx264gui/
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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby mirkosp » Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:45 am

HalOfBorg wrote:
Creative Name wrote:Smaller AND better quality? That seems a little too good to be true.

Turns out that I have zarx264gui on my computer somehow, and once I remembered how to make an avs file,

O
M
G

Thanks again! This website is my EASY button :mrgreen:

Zarx264GUI has been updated several times - get the latest version.

http://amvhell.com/stuff/zarx264gui/


Too bad the latest verison is still terribly out of date... :sweat:
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Re: Need suggestions on how to compress

Postby Creative Name » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:38 pm

Wow, this stuff is complicated. I hope I don't tweak things to the point where I can't untweak them :sweat:
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