Any other fast codec than MJPEG?

Aetherfukz · Post by **Aetherfukz** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 2:41 pm

Hi,

Strangely the MJPEG codec seems to produce just broken avis at my comp. I can work with it in Premiere (6.5) but whenever I export it, the avi doesn't play. So does anybody know of a similar codec, that is just as fast when it comes to editing? The quality doesn't matter, because I'm going to switch back to the DVD footage after the video is finished.
My problem now is, I can't even make lo-quality avi files from my DVD footage, because of the MJPEG codec thingy...

Help would be appreciated.

Peace out,
Aetherfukz

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Nov 26, 2002 2:54 pm

DivX is rather fast, but we all know how that goes with Premiere.

There are some other vendors who sell MJPEG codecs, you may try those if you were having problems with PicVideos.

~klinky

Aetherfukz · Post by **Aetherfukz** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 5:19 am

Something very strange is going on with my computer.
I tried the Morgan MultiMedia MJPEG codec, but it's the same problem, I can work and preview fine with it in Premiere, but every avi file I make is kinda corrupt.

So does anybody know of any other codec than MJPEG with is pretty fast for editing?

Peace out,
Aetherfukz

mckeed · Post by **mckeed** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 9:49 am

why don't you just export in a different codec than mjpeg....huffy is realtivey fast. I don't understand why your exporting the file from permire though. Is this the finished product your exporting, or are you exporting chunks of the video for other psot processing effects? I guess why I am asking, is if it looks fine in the premire preview window why are you exporting it in the first place?

Aetherfukz · Post by **Aetherfukz** » Fri Nov 29, 2002 10:04 am

Well, it's not the problem with exporting. I haven't even started the project yet because my main prob is, I want to encode my DVD vobs to quick and dirty avi files, which I can use for editing then, and later on switch back to the vobs.
But I encoded the DVDs already with PicVideo MJPEG codec, and the avis just crashed WMP, ZoomPlayer and Premiere when importing. So I tried the Morgan Multimedia MJPEG codec. But I didn't encode the whole DVD then, I just put some old footage I have into the Premiere timeline, and work with the MJPEG codec for the preview, and it does work. But when I try to export the little thing to an avi then, with MJPEG, the avi just crashes as before.

So it isn't about exporting, that's just some trial-and-error I do to find a working codec, it's about DVD encoding...
And I already tried HuffYUV for encoding, but I got a 20 GigaByte monster file on my disk, which wasn't even finished, but the disk was full...

Hope anybody can help me, cause I'm really desperate to start editing now.

Peace out,
Aetherfukz

grayplague · Post by **grayplague** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 12:22 pm

You could always use DV. It usually turns out to be about 1/3 the size of huffyuv compressed video and it edits nice -n- fast.

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iserlohn · Post by **iserlohn** » Sat Nov 30, 2002 2:36 pm

If you're looking for something to make quick and dirty preview files from, Indeo 5.1 with quick compress enabled is relatively speedy. If you encode in 320x240 it should play back no problem.

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 12:25 am

I had been using MS-MPEG4 v1/v2. It's better stable than DivX.

Aetherfukz · Post by **Aetherfukz** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 2:13 am

I tried to encode my DVD files with Indeo 5.1 yesterday, but it was sooo slow. I had like 2-3 fps, and the estimated time was about 50 hours. Now that's really long, and I can't have my computer running that long without doing something on it (like playing... :)
Today, when I come home from work, I will try downloading the MS-MPEG4, maybe this works. It is so sad that neither the PicVideo or the Morgan Multimedia MJPEG codec works on my system, for it would fit my needs the best. I just don't know what could be wrong there... stupid Windows...

Peace out,
Aetherfukz

Eek-1 · Post by **Eek-1** » Mon Dec 02, 2002 8:55 am

If (for some reason) you plan to use mpeg4 for editing, remember to set the keyframe range to 1 second (the default is 10... or 8) but I must warn you won't get quality picture with that codec. I had used it only for building previews.