[Lossless] Ut Video Codec

[Kawatta-kun]

Always MediaPlayerClassic, the one at AMVapp.

And it is the kind of playing error it gives when converting using converters, most of the times because of the FPS I think.

[mirkosp]

Try installing CCCP (if you haven't already) and use media player classic home cinema instead... if utvideo has been installed properly, it should play there. But playing it in virtualdub should work too, so you might want to just try there. If you have issues, I guess try reinstalling utvideo because maybe something went wrong during the installation?

[Cannonaire]

Now, it gives me 4 options:
UT Video Codec RGB (ULRG) VCM x64;
UT Video Codec RGB (ULRA) VCM x64;
UT Video Codec YUV420 (ULY0) VCM x64;
UT Video Codec YUV422 (ULY2) VCM x64.

I'm pretty sure I found your problem. These won't work for you unless you're using them along with 64 bit software. Install the x86 version of UTVideo and try again.

There is a 64-bit version of Media Player Classic Home Cinema, but so far I haven't found a good use for it aside from testing 64-bit codecs I find.

[Cannonaire]

Meh. I'm tired. I just now noticed that you also installed the 32-bit version and you were using the 64-bit version of Vegas. My bad. Maybe there's a problem with having both the x86 and x64 codecs installed?

[Kawatta-kun]

Meh. I'm tired. I just now noticed that you also installed the 32-bit version and you were using the 64-bit version of Vegas. My bad. Maybe there's a problem with having both the x86 and x64 codecs installed?

At the AMVapp guide it says to have both, must have no problem. Oh well dunno :'x

[Kawatta-kun]

Ok now I'm testing image quality. Tryng out in diferent video sources and now it works (on VDub). Let's hope it doesn't get bad again.

[Mister Hatt]

Also if it wasn't obvious, those 4 formats, you don't need to know what they mean besides for YUV420 is the only one you should actually be using unless you are an Advanced User (TM) which you are not.

[Kawatta-kun]

I already know that the YUV420 is the better for compressing at VirtualDub.
But when rendering at our edition program? Some say RGB is the best, but why? And which of the two of it?

[mirkosp]

Go for YUV420, for the kind of footage and distro format we're working with it's the one that makes the most sense. Those that say that RGB is best either don't work with anime and don't distribute their work, or they just don't know that it's best to avoid colorspace conversions whenever possible, especially if you end up converting them wrong.

[Cannonaire]

I keep YUV420 for storage, but when I make clips I convert to RGB because I know that my NLE will process them that way anyway and I like to control how it's converted. I only use the $100 Vegas though, so I can't specify floating point or higher accuracy colorspaces. It's situational whether you should do one or the other, but YUV420 (YV12) is almost always the best option for our purposes.

When it comes to the final encode for distribution, use YV12. Nothing else makes sense right now.