Which format of video would you recommend?
- NellyEdits
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Which format of video would you recommend?
Currently, I have Sony Vegas Pro 8.0. I've been converting MKV. to MPEG-1 in Xilisoft in order to edit.
The quality of the episodes are decent (yet they could be better) and it won't lag when I work with it.
In certain AMVs I wish to incorporate the voices of the characters for a more dramatic effect. Unfortunately, when I drag my file to Sony Vegas
the audio seems to be missing. What format should I be converting in order to have both audio and video?
Thanks in advance, your answers are much appreciated.
The quality of the episodes are decent (yet they could be better) and it won't lag when I work with it.
In certain AMVs I wish to incorporate the voices of the characters for a more dramatic effect. Unfortunately, when I drag my file to Sony Vegas
the audio seems to be missing. What format should I be converting in order to have both audio and video?
Thanks in advance, your answers are much appreciated.
- setMosaic
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
As a Xilisoft Video Converter user. The best option it's convert to .avi (on the software, Profile > DivX - Movie).
And for the audio problem you should click on the [>] button and check if the Disable Audio option it's on False, but this issue (maybe) it's caused by the format that you are converting to.
Settings: http://i.imgur.com/m7Rfk.jpg
Hope I helped.
And for the audio problem you should click on the [>] button and check if the Disable Audio option it's on False, but this issue (maybe) it's caused by the format that you are converting to.
Settings: http://i.imgur.com/m7Rfk.jpg
Hope I helped.
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
Very bad idea. Divx/Xvid is notorious for causing issues. It may work now but when it fails, it fails. Divx/Xvid is also a lossy codec. You should never encode to a lossy codec to edit with. You will lose valuable video data from your source medium.setMosaic wrote:DivX
The best format to edit with is AVI using a lossless codec such as Huffyuv, Lagarith, or UTVideo. I would suggest UTVideo.
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
I would also recommend UTVideo and/or Lagarith. For audio, you should always use wav for editing. I gave you the links to the codecs you need in the other thread.
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- setMosaic
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
Ohh, DivX it's bad, too bad for me.
I think I need a new HD for uncompressed .avi files, dang it.
My bad for the terrible answer, was guiding you to the wrong way.
Really, really sorry.
I think I need a new HD for uncompressed .avi files, dang it.
My bad for the terrible answer, was guiding you to the wrong way.
Really, really sorry.
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
There's no need to go uncompressed, just to something lossless.setMosaic wrote:I think I need a new HD for uncompressed .avi files, dang it.
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
UTvideo is recommended and the next best option is probably lagarith. Use these lossless formats simply because you lose no quality with these during the encode. If you want audio I suggest taking that out separately but if you want it together use the PCM format because that too is editable and works very well as a lossless audio source
- setMosaic
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
It's not the same thing? Like, I used UTVideo in VirtualDub to convert a movie [2,9gb, .mkv, 720p] to .avi [80gb], what's wrong with this big file size?Pwolf wrote:There's no need to go uncompressed, just to something lossless.
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
There's nothing wrong with the big filesize, it's supposed to be that way.
UTvideo is a lossless codec which means that it compresses the data but when it's decompressed, there's no pixel data loss. That said, in order to keep the pixel data intact, you have to sacrifice filesize. A lossless compression is still better than uncompressed as far as file size is concerned (its also much faster since there's less data being pushed through the editing pipeline). A lossy codec, like h264 and divx/xvid, do a lot better at compressing the data down so the filesize is significantly smaller but when it's decompressed, you don't get original pixel data.
UTvideo is a lossless codec which means that it compresses the data but when it's decompressed, there's no pixel data loss. That said, in order to keep the pixel data intact, you have to sacrifice filesize. A lossless compression is still better than uncompressed as far as file size is concerned (its also much faster since there's less data being pushed through the editing pipeline). A lossy codec, like h264 and divx/xvid, do a lot better at compressing the data down so the filesize is significantly smaller but when it's decompressed, you don't get original pixel data.
- setMosaic
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Re: Which format of video would you recommend?
Oh I see. So, it's the same thing, and me here thinking that this file was kinda abnormal. Yeah, need a new hard drive, now. I have 350gb at the moment and a lot of raw episodes to convert, will be sort of a pain in the ass, dang it. I was happy with DivX till I find this forum and what people really use for better editing. There's no way to get the same quality with a small file size? Knowing that I can encode to .mp4, there's another way? Or I have to stick with those options?