FFX FMV conversion help...

Fungie½ · Post by **Fungie½** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:44 pm

devilmaykickass wrote:
Fungie½ wrote:There sure is. You need a problem called DVD2AVI. You can download it off of doom9.org. Open it up and go to File and Open, and open the M2V files. Then go to Save as AVI. I'd suggest saving as HuffYUV (which can be found via a google search) or Uncompressed for the codec. Viola!

Good luck with your video ^_^
Sorry, but that was such a ironically funny typo I couldn't live on without pointing it out.

Ouch! My mistake ^_^;;; Sorry!

museofnorthwind · Post by **museofnorthwind** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:56 pm

devilmaykickass wrote:Just out of curiosity, what Operating System are you using (IE, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Mac, Linux, Unix, ect.)?

I'm using Windows XP. Professional Edition, if that means anything.

Well, I was able to convert the FMVs with acceptable quality for now. Some of them are messed up -- noticably the ingame-crossing over to-FMV ones like "Otherworld" and "The Last Chapter" ;_; But... oh well. I wish I had a capture card or something so I could get the FMVs in great quality and not messed up. But anyway...

Yeah. These AVI files are working in WMP and WMM, suprisingly. Oh, the confusion... @.@

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:50 pm

They should come out perfect. O_o The only video I saw come out messed up is "The Last Chapter" for some reason it begins in a smaller resolution then widens later sooo...I dunno could be a bug in ffx2mov. Otherworld is fine though. What codec are you converting to?

You'll get better quality from ripping directly from the disk, believe me. My latest video (the one in my sig) is made completely of captured FMVs. Good quality yes, but watch a video like say, this one where the footage was ripped directly and see the difference. O.O

shirohamada · Post by **shirohamada** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:11 pm

yes, direct copy is lossless.

what you can do is edit the thing and take notes on the frame numbers as you usually do with a video editor.
then use everything on avisynth with the trim function.

works for me. no huffyuv needed.

museofnorthwind · Post by **museofnorthwind** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:23 pm

Yeah, "Otherworld" is okay. My mistake. It's "The Last Chapter" and the other one, just after Yuna, Auron and Seymour defeat the Sinspawn. I think they start small becuase it's supposed to be in-game, but it's laced with the FMV movie... I dunno x.x

I'm currently converting to Lead MCMP/MJPEG Codec. Still though, which codec should I convert to? I have "Cinepak Codec by Radius", "Microsoft Video 1", "Lead MCMP/MJPEG", "Intel Video 4.5", "Intel Video 5.10" and "Full Frames (Uncompressed)". Also, with the recommended codec, what compression quality would be best? Just your opinion... I'd like not bad quality, but I don't want to overkill on disc space... x_x

Since we're here, I might as well ask -- is there a better (free x.x) movie maker program I can use? Windows Movie Maker is keeps, for whatever reason, freezing every time I try to add a video transition or effect. It's really annoying x.x

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 11:16 pm

The best quality I have wittnessed is ripping in MJEPG or HuffYUV...your choice. I can't see even the slightest difference, but HuffYUV is faster and you'll be compressing anyway, however, if your editing and disk space is a factor, go with MJPEG...its significantly smaller. If you want to compress them to watch on your comp, or whatever other reason, I found converting from MJPEG or HuffYUV (whichever you choose) to DivX 5.0.2 or whatever is the lastest on the DivX website, gives FLAWLESS quality, and the files arn't big at all.

MPEG-1 also gives a nice result, as well as XVID, so your choice, but I personally have fell in love with the DivX codec.

museofnorthwind · Post by **museofnorthwind** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 9:13 am

How abouts would I get that codec? I think I had it before... But then I installed a MPEG-2 codec, becuase I thought I needed it to watch them and now everything was screwed up...

So when I download this codec, it will appear in the list of conversion options when I convert my FMVs?

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 10:36 am

Yes. they will appear in the list of codecs you can export/convert as. As for how to get them:

You can download the DivX codec by clicking here.

And you can download the XviD codec by clicking here.

I'm actually beginning to prefer the XviD codec over DivX now, but they're both great.

museofnorthwind · Post by **museofnorthwind** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:15 pm

Well, I downloaded the new DivX one and so far it seems to be working okay. I'll have to reconvert those FMVs, but in the end, it'll be worth it.

You said you liked the Xvid codec now o.o; Out of curiostiy, which do you find makes better quality?

shirohamada · Post by **shirohamada** » Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:34 pm

xvid is more customizable, the custom quantization matrix.