Besides Huffyuv whats the next best compression quality

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Feb 05, 2004 12:36 pm

There's another lossless codec called CorePNG that compresses better than huffyuv. Its a LOT slower though, I dunno if it would be suitable for editing.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Fri Feb 06, 2004 3:04 pm

try picvideos Mjpeg at quality 19, You can also resize your footage down to your distribution format while you're at it.

IE: 640, 512, or 360 (or whatever you use) are all going to take up less space than the 740 that comes off the dvd.

Bear in mind that you won't get a reference quality image that way, but it saves space. The bait and swich is still the best way ot go.

Shun · Post by **Shun** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:30 pm

leathelanime wrote:Hiya Klink,

well anywho I was ripping Dvd's and I wanted to know the compression quality best suited....but man you know Huffy kills my Harddrive when its compressing 25 minute episodes If I could cut down the vob files it would be so much easier ....

I'm not sure the hole story here, but if the whole anime is 25 episodes then i would recomend some paper and pen planning. This way you can eliminate a lot of episodes you wont be using. However if you have already narrowed it down to 25 eps, then ignore me

Corran · Post by **Corran** » Sat Feb 07, 2004 11:05 pm

klinky wrote:Use the SWAP method, this is what it was meant for. Faster than AVS/less space than huffyuv. You can uber low quality MJPEGs that take up around the same amount as the VOB files. Then swap back to the MPEG2 VOBs for the final render. Read about it in the guides...

For slower computers I highly recommend this method. Here is the exact page that Klinky is refering to in the guides.
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... etb.html#3

If your computer is fast enough and has enough ram then editing directly with the Avisynth scripts isn't bad either.