Ack help

Satori · Post by **Satori** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 10:48 am

I've been working with Ah! My Goddess the Movie, and having the worst trouble. My source is 720x480 and I'm trying to export it for the web at a smaller resolution. It just looks like crap though. Sometimes you can see a blind effect when I use rubberbands. This has never happened to me before. What's the best resolution for anamorphic video? I just want the best quality I can get from this video. At 480 or 720 after exporting it looks great, but something smaller does that effect. It also looks more pixelly too and not as sharp as I'd like in a smaller resolutin. I'm using the HUFFYUV codec.

Also after using TMPGEnc I'm just not getting that crisp look. It looks more like vhs footage which is aggrivating >< It's still coming out at 60 mbs though. I keep trying to up the bitrate, but the colors look faded to me. Some of my scenes fade to black, but it looks like they're fading to a very dull greyish black. This also makes the colors of the video look very dull.

Help, please. My video looks beautiful previewed and even exported at a high resolution, but as soon as I try to export with Premiere at 320 (or use TMPGEnc). it looks like crap.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 11:38 am

I'd suggest you use Xvid or Divx to get the filesize down some while keeping a high resolution.

Satori · Post by **Satori** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 1:23 pm

I just tried the Xvid method. It looks so good.

Satori · Post by **Satori** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:05 am

The file size is still fairly large. Oh well. I think I'm going to give up until I can find a better host.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:10 am

Assuming you do 2 pass, it lets you pick the filesize you want for the video. So if its coming out huge, its only because you are telling it to be huge. Note that the audio size isn't taken into account, you need to factor that in as well.

iserlohn · Post by **iserlohn** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 6:14 am

Don't forget to compress your audio. This can knock a lot of space off.

And for Anamorphic video, what I usually do is export to some sort of lossless or near-lossless codec (like Huffy), and then do the following in VirtualDub:

1. Run a null transform and crop off the widescreen.
2. Resize to 640x336 (use Bilinear to shrink, Bicubic to expand)
3. Expand to 640x480 and reletterbox
4. Save AVI.

It's just as simple as that.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 12:38 pm

HuffYUV is lossless, idiot.

And anyways, you don't need to do what the person above me outlined, it's as simple as running your file through AVISynth.

MPEG2Source("X:\<pathtofile>\<file>.d2v")
LanczosResize(720, 360)

And by the way, you don't export in Premiere as a different resolution as your source.

You always export in the resolution your source is, and then you resize with VDub/AVISynth.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 12:54 pm

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:HuffYUV is lossless, idiot.

Not always. If you try to compress RGB by converting to YUV2 first, then some data is lost in the conversion.

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 2:16 pm

This seems like a good opportunity to ask this question- is the Lanczos Resize part of the standard AMVapp?

TokyoU15 · Post by **TokyoU15** » Thu Dec 05, 2002 3:22 pm

This seems like a good opportunity to ask this question- is the Lanczos Resize part of the standard AMVapp?

I don't think you NEED the AMVapp to be able to use this, but it is explained in the documentations.