video quality and making it better

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video quality and making it better

Post by medeco266 » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:15 am

you see ,i joined in dec.03...

i have been using movie-maker 2..(works fine for me , when the computer doesnt crash.. :shock: )

i also have an excellent source for video stock.(over 50 dvds & over 200 vcds :roll: )

i own x-video converter and dr-divx..

BUT my video quality (final) still sucks..!!! :x

what can i do???

work is slow and funds are tight..


heeeeeeeellllllllpppppp mmmmeeeeeeee!!!!!


please..
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Post by Arigatomina » Tue Jun 29, 2004 12:35 am

The best way to get good quality in your finished product is to make sure you get the absolute best possible quality in your source footage. That means the clips you're importing into wmm - aka, huffyuv or uncompressed footage. I don't recognize those converters, but I'd be willing to bet you're not working with huffyuv or uncompressed footage (probably xvid/divx or mpg) - that will kill your quality from the start so you can forget about improving the end result. If you haven't, read the guides on how to rip your dvds. All the programs they tell you to use can be downloaded for free off the internet, so you won't have to spend a penny.

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

Read through that and try the dvd-huffyuv method, aka DVDDecryptor, DVD2AVI, Avisynth script, VirtualDub - that should get you large but great looking huffyuv clips to edit with.

Once you have the best possible source quality, work on your encoding. If you're using wmm 2.0, try the avi option - if it sounds funny (with skips in the audio), then use the 'high quality video large' wmv option. Take that wmv into TMPGEnc (a link to this mpg encoder is in the guides - under 'compressing your video'). Use the 'noise reduction' filter on that wmv and chances are you'll get a nice looking vid at a reasonable file size - and people tend to like playing mpgs more than wmv.

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Post by shirohamada » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:10 am

vcd is not a good source.


learn xvid. not that divx is bad.
http://www.vslcatena.nl/~ronald/docs/xvidfaq.html

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video quality

Post by medeco266 » Tue Jun 29, 2004 10:19 am

as to the vcd as a source , that comes out better than the dvd.. :?

i shall look into the programs mentioned..

i will be tied up with work for a little while so i will get to it when i can...

thanx
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Re: video quality

Post by mckeed » Tue Jun 29, 2004 1:24 pm

medeco266 wrote:as to the vcd as a source , that comes out better than the dvd.. :?
Then you are doing something horribly wrong in extracting the DVD footage.
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video quality

Post by medeco266 » Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:25 pm

david,

you are right.. by using dr divx i am losing alot of quality..

when time and funds allow , i will upgrade..

im trying to get a newer computer..

mine only has a celeron processer. :cry:

thanx
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ill give you something to laugh at.!!!

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Post by mckeed » Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:51 pm

your processor has nothing to do with the quality of the video you are using. The only thing that can get in the way is HD space really. Using divx as source used way more cpu power than mpeg2/vob does. Make mjpeg files and swap then out at the end or something. Read the guides. If you do'nt understand them. Read them again. They aren't the easiest thing to read. But this hobby is very technical and doesn't get any simpler. If you can't really understand the guides then keep trying to learn more until they make sense.
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