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Re: Vegas / Veas Movie Studio Codecs

Postby Radical_Yue » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:53 pm

CrackTheSky wrote:
Kariudo wrote:
moonie211 wrote:You must be using epiodes encoded in divx or xvid
Most editing programs don't do well with those.
Even if you make every frame a key frame (i tried that before)
you will still have problems.

Its best to convert your clips to codecs like Huffyuv

DON'T USE DIVX/XVID FILES FOR EDITING
make clips using virtualdub(/mod) and save them with a lossless codec like Huffyuv. Lagarith is even better (but has been known to not work from time to time


Really? Lagarith is better? I thought HuffYUV was...



I find Lagarith agress with Vegas more than Huffy. Especially when you disable the audio on the clips you make. Then it's (at least for me) as smooth a silk
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Postby Willen » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:34 am

Lagarith can produce files that are smaller than what Huffyuv can output. This can add up to a decent savings on your hard drive space for a big project.

BUT, different programs seem to like either one or the other somewhat better. In Magix MEP10/11, I get some corrupted frames if I use Lagarith to encode my clips. And the corrupted frames are different using the same software on a different computer. For the posts I've read here, Vegas seems to like Lagarith better, but Premiere seems to prefer Huffyuv.

I'm currently using ffdshow's Huffyuv YV12 mode for encoding clips to 1) get the performance of Huffyuv closer to Lagarith filesize-wise, and 2) minimize any colorspace conversions in the editing chain (eventhough YV12 > YUY2 is pretty minor). Yeah, Huffyuv RGB would also be fine to minimize colorspace conversions (since the editing programs do internal RGB conversion for YV12 stuff anyways) but them files are big...
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