Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

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Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby AnimeSpiritZ » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:19 pm

I was just wondering what the opinions of others are, for cutting clips from a video while maintaining perfect quality with absolutly no loss.
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Re: Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:29 pm

I'm not opposed to high quality.
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Re: Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby Kariudo » Wed Jun 10, 2009 8:37 pm

Lossless codecs like Huffyuv and Lagarith and Lossless MJPEG are commonly used.
VirtualDub is what a lot of regulars here use to make cuts

Be aware that lossless means big files, and that your output quality is limited by your input quality

(after reading TOHH's post I re-read the original post, but still think this is what was intended)
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Re: Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby AnimeSpiritZ » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:08 pm

thanks so much. i'll try it out!
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Re: Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby AnimeSpiritZ » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:32 pm

ok so i've tried virtual dub. but i couldnt find the option to choose one of those lossless codecs. or are the files exported from virtualdub lossless by itself?
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Re: Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby Kariudo » Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:41 pm

technically yes, as the default is uncompressed...but for how large lossless files are, uncompressed is even larger still

you have to download and install lagarith and/or huffyuv, then they will appear in the codecs list.
if you got vdub, you have to go to video-> compression to select the codec you want to use
in vdubmod you can select the codec from the save as avi dialog

lagarith now comes with an installer I think, but huffyuv still needs to be installed the manual way (by right-clicking the huffyuv.inf file and selecting "install")

Lagarith gives you smaller files than huffyuv does, but needs more computing power to encode/decode (though chances are you won't have to worry about this)

Windows Movie Maker doesn't play nice with lagarith, but all other commonly used programs seem to work fine with lagarith.
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Re: Options for perfect quality when cutting clips?

Postby AnimeSpiritZ » Wed Jun 10, 2009 10:23 pm

ok thanks a lot. =]
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