after effects help

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:52 pm

Read Ermac and Absolute Destiny's Friendly A/v Guides to the rescue?
imo, in this case it's best to drop the "R"

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:58 pm

never drop the R, never give an explaination.
that was the point of calling it Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a>

thebattosai · Post by **thebattosai** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:02 pm

so whats the best output for video?
huffyuv is a bit 2 big for my liking.....can i just use wma for the same results??

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:03 pm

thebattosai wrote:so whats the best output for video?
huffyuv is a bit 2 big for my liking.....can i just use wma for the same results??

Huffy is loosless so it has the best quality but also makes big file sizes.
I don't think the wmv would work good in editing programs

thebattosai · Post by **thebattosai** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:09 pm

and loosless means....

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:13 pm

lossless means that you don't loose quality no matter how many times you comrpess the video.

most editing programs should be able to handle wmv files...though if you try to compress wmv files you will most likely regret doing so

thebattosai · Post by **thebattosai** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:32 pm

so the best bet is....huffyuv?

or is there something better or simalar that dosent take up as much space....and also, y would i b sorry if trying to compress wmv*(yess as u can guess..i'm a nwebie..)

and finally, is it best to convert all video into huffyuv...like say for premiere...i'm not getting an error message in this but i am in after effects....is it okay to use a mixture of videos that are diffently encoded?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:37 pm

I'd say that the best is Lagarith (it gives smaller files than huffyuv)

if you're having trouble, then you should try clicking the "always suggest RGB " box that should appear in both huffy's and lagarith's configuration
sometimes you can get errors because your video isn't in an acceptable colorspace

thebattosai · Post by **thebattosai** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:45 pm

:S....i dont c lagarith....

i have virtualdub...not the mod version. is it only available in the mod version?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:58 pm

lagarith is a seperate codec that you need to download
http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
get the codec and installer, unzip the files and right click the .inf file and select "install"

you should also get virtualdubMod, it supports the import of more filetypes (among other things)