Annoying twitching..

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Annoying twitching..

Postby Emong » Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:31 am

I'm trying to make an AMV to one of the most over-used anime out there called Advent Children. According to Scintilla's guide I should be using huffyuv clips, but when I play them on Windows Media Player (or any other player I have on my comp) they twitch annoyingly (they slow down suddenly and then speed up again). I tried different codecs and found out XviD MPEG-4 Codec doesn't cause twitching (or at least as much as the other codecs)... But can I safely use those XviD clips in Windows Movie Maker?
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Postby Minion » Tue Dec 26, 2006 12:10 pm

stick with huffy or lagarith. don't expect files that massive to play smoothly in WMP.
they should do fine in your editing program though
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Postby Zarxrax » Tue Dec 26, 2006 1:16 pm

Yes, like Minion said, huffyuv files are so big, your hard drive cant read the data fast enough to play them back smoothly. The goal isn't to be able to watch them from that format, but to just be able to use the data.
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Postby Emong » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:07 am

Yeah, I noticed that. I was just thinking if I did something wrong.. They work fine, but huffyuv clips do not run smoothly in WMM. They're slowing down all the time and it's impossible to get music / editing syncing look right. I don't know how I'm supposed to edit faster paced scenes :roll: They're slow even when I'm using clips something like 10 seconds long..
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:48 am

For shits and giggles: How much RAM are you running?
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Postby Emong » Fri Dec 29, 2006 6:35 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:For shits and giggles: How much RAM are you running?

512.. Not too good, I guess?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Dec 29, 2006 3:22 pm

Emong wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:For shits and giggles: How much RAM are you running?

512.. Not too good, I guess?


For running lossless clips in WMM?... probably not enough.
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Postby Emong » Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:10 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Emong wrote:
BasharOfTheAges wrote:For shits and giggles: How much RAM are you running?

512.. Not too good, I guess?


For running lossless clips in WMM?... probably not enough.

So I should use lossy clips? Which codec should I use?
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:00 pm

Emong wrote:So I should use lossy clips?


No. I'd suggest getting a more capable piece of software though. I used to run Premiere just fine with less RAM than that.
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Postby Emong » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:53 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Emong wrote:So I should use lossy clips?


No. I'd suggest getting a more capable piece of software though. I used to run Premiere just fine with less RAM than that.

Hmm.. So, I should pay hundreds of dollars for good video quality. How nice..
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Sun Dec 31, 2006 1:52 pm

Emong wrote:Hmm.. So, I should pay hundreds of dollars for good video quality. How nice..


Being a software designer, this should go against my code of ethics... But I'll point out to you that a lot of the people that use high end software here ascribe the philosophy of "Internet, yar!" if you catch my meaning.
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Postby Emong » Mon Jan 01, 2007 9:42 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Emong wrote:Hmm.. So, I should pay hundreds of dollars for good video quality. How nice..


Being a software designer, this should go against my code of ethics... But I'll point out to you that a lot of the people that use high end software here ascribe the philosophy of "Internet, yar!" if you catch my meaning.

Ahem.. Yeah, I know.
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