Getting the best out of video quality....

DarkSchneider · Post by **DarkSchneider** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 4:56 pm

Hey all,

Recently I tried experimenting with codecs. I'm trying to rip some footage from all the Final Fantasy games I got(key scenes really) in preparation for an FF Video. But recently I've ran into some problems. Everytime I think quality will be bitchin, it ends up lookin like shit. Basically, I'm trying another codec other than DivX 5.0 (Don't want the corner things showing up in EVERY scene I'm trying to rip and encode) Does anyone have any suggestions, and/or codecs that they can point me out to? Thanks!

zalas · Post by **zalas** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 6:29 pm

If you want, you can try outputting to something using HuffYUV, although that takes a lot of space. You can also try MJPEG or even XVid with quantizer set to 2.

DarkSchneider · Post by **DarkSchneider** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 6:33 pm

Where do I get MJPEG and XVid?

MindBug · Post by **MindBug** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 12:59 pm

Someone referred me to this guide and I have found it to be very helpful with my many questions.

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... index.html

This guide has a lot of good methods for ripping video in almost the exact perfect quality of the source. Also has a long section on the PROs and CONs of various codec, how commonly they are used, and their downfalls. It's worth checking out if you are really going for that high level of video quality...

-MindBug-

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:25 pm

The DivX logo in the corner is actually not encoded onto the video itself. It's a playback option, and it can very easily be turned off.

Also, I'd recommend using IVTC BEFORE you encode the VOBs to something else. Progressive frames are much easier to compress than interlaced ones.

Farlo · Post by **Farlo** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:36 pm

for some reason in some of my old videos the divx logo burned into them...kinda messed up huh?

CArnesen · Post by **CArnesen** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 7:17 pm

el_farlo wrote:for some reason in some of my old videos the divx logo burned into them...kinda messed up huh?

That's what you get for editing DivX files...

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 11:25 pm

el_farlo wrote:for some reason in some of my old videos the divx logo burned into them...kinda messed up huh?

You can turn that off. It's somewhere in the divx settings something along the lines of "Display Logo".

the Black Monarch · Post by **the Black Monarch** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:09 am

What he's saying is that turning that option off didn't get rid of the logo.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:27 am

the Black Monarch wrote:What he's saying is that turning that option off didn't get rid of the logo.

Actually, if you encode with the setting turned on, it burns the logo Cartoon-Network style into the corner of your video. You could see this all over the place at the Akon awards. Peoples footage would have it off an on throughout a whole video(IE:one clip would have it and the next would not).