DON'T READ UNLESS UR A CODEC/VEGAS/AMVAPP GENIUS!!!

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:14 am

>=[ MJPEG Lossless

Nope, Lagarith

BTW, why do you feel the need for multiple versions of te XviD codec? It's a compressor/decompressor, so 1 is good enough for playback and encoding.

uchihaclan13 · Post by **uchihaclan13** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:47 pm

Gepetto wrote:>=[ MJPEG Lossless

Nope, Lagarith

BTW, why do you feel the need for multiple versions of te XviD codec? It's a compressor/decompressor, so 1 is good enough for playback and encoding.

Why I used multiple versions? Because some of the Xvid codecs, like the most up to date one, only decoded some of the video in Vegas to make it Visable, and the other, older Xvid versions I added to that Xvids codec decoded the other clips that the up to date one didn't get.

(Making it visible/watching anime with codecs is "decoding," right??? noob question, I know XP)

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:50 pm

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:31 pm

And if you don't like making clips, just use the bait and switch method with Vegas. I edit with low quality M-JPEGs and then replace the files with my AviSynth files frameserved via VFAPI. This is a much better solution than trying to make lossless versions of complete episodes!

Bait and switch is made of win

! (Even though the guide only talks about Premiere, if you know how to right click a file and click replace you'll be fine.)

These will explain the process part a bit more:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=61650
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=60777
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=57853

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:16 pm

i wouldn't recomend the bait and switch.
for the fact that most editors are sloppy as fuck with how they organize their work files. sometimes having 8 files with the words "FINAL" tagged on the end.
i'm no exception, and as a result i've had bad experiences with the bait and switch :/

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 3:47 am

I still honestly find that the method of using VirtualDubMod to seek what ever your files are, AVS, DivX, what ever, and then exportint out short lossless segments works best. Cause you have full quality work files to toy with in Premiere and it doesn't take a monsterious ammount of space

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 4:20 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:I still honestly find that the method of using VirtualDubMod to seek what ever your files are, AVS, DivX, what ever, and then exportint out short lossless segments works best. Cause you have full quality work files to toy with in Premiere and it doesn't take a monsterious ammount of space

Not to mention that using them in your editing programs is MUCH faster. I can real-time preview in Magix with Huffyuv/Lagarith clips. And scrubbing through the segments is fast.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:45 pm

uchihaclan13 wrote:(Making it visible/watching anime with codecs is "decoding," right??? noob question, I know XP)

Yes, and what we usually refer to as "compressing" is "coding" or "encoding".

uchihaclan13 wrote:Why I used multiple versions? Because some of the Xvid codecs, like the most up to date one, only decoded some of the video in Vegas to make it Visable, and the other, older Xvid versions I added to that Xvids codec decoded the other clips that the up to date one didn't get.

Then you have a problem. XviD is reverse-compatible, so the newer versions should be able to decode everything the older ones did. I'm going to take a wild guess here and say that at some point in the past, you did a faulty uninstall, or installed a newer version over an older one and that's giving you playback problems with one single XviD. If it works, fine, but it's not a normal situation. Just remember to always uninstall a codec before installing a newer version (but in your case, if you have to keep XviD, do so)

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:32 pm

've said it before, and i'll say it again... if you are using xvid/divx to edit with you are either 1) stupid 2) don't know better 3) crazy or 4)being a dumbass but know the trouble you are getting yourself into...

Pwolf

DJ_Izumi · Post by **DJ_Izumi** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:33 pm

DivX and XviD are also just a bitch to seek anyway. (Though not as bad as some AVS scripts)

Vdub also adds one nice advantage for seeking in DivX/XviD files. Hold down shift and it only seeks between I frames. Fast as hell and it takes you to all the major scene changes.