Compression problem, from Sony Vegas 8.0

[JaddziaDax]

which program exactly are you using and are you following the guides that are linked?

[Kariudo]

You're going to have to be more specific than that

what programs aren't recognizing your video?
how are you exporting your video from Vegas?

[samthegreek]

Well…

From the beginning:

I used DGIndex to convert to AVS
Then VirtualDubMod to convert to AVI
I also used VirtualDubMod to lower the resolution

I then edited the material with Sony Vegas 8.0

So, I have an AVI file from VirtualDubMod that was edited in Vegas 8.0

I tried to lower the size (because it is, for some reason, very big) using some of the programs suggested on this thread:

ZarxGui
RealAnime

However, these programs don’t recognize my AVI file


I hope this information helpful enough.

Please let me know if you need to know more.
(I'm sorry if I'm not being specific enough for you guys, I just don't know about this stuff, that's all.)

Thanks!

[JaddziaDax]

it sounds like you haven't read the guide on zarxgui? it takes avs scripts written up to direct to your file... not the file directly O.o

[samthegreek]

Lol. Ok.

But...

How do I make an AVS script to direct it there?

(I'm really sorry. I know I sound like a complete idiot for asking that. But please understand that I am really new to this whole thing.)

[samthegreek]

Ok, I figured out some things, but I'm still not quite there yet.

I know how to make an AVS script.
You just open up notepad, type in the script, and then save it as .avs, right?

But I don't know what script to use.

This is the file address:
"G:\Adbridged\SXA\SX-1.0"

Ok... so what?
How do I get the thing to read it?

[samthegreek]

Ok...

The good news: I figured it out.

The bad news: I got an error.

"avis [error]: unsupported input format (YUY2)

I don't know what that means.

[samthegreek]

Good News!

Ok, so the whole thingy thing didn't work out.

However...

I found out that I can use Sony Vegas 8.0 to convert the file into a different size.
All you do is select your video, and when using the "Render As" feature, select the type of video you want to save it as.
In this case, I saved it as an MP4.

The quality isn't so hot, but it is good enough.
And it is small! So it fits on YouTube!

So, if anyone else has my same problem, there is your answer.

(Still, if you could tell me what my error meant, that would be nice. I may want to try and upload better quality videos in the future, and it might come in handy.)

[Kariudo]

that's a colorspace error (the colorspace is what tells the computer what the colors in the video are, and there are more than a few colorspaces)

if you throw the following line into your avisynth script after your directshowsource() or avisource() or whatever you used it should work

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ConvertToYv12()

zarx264gui should give you much better results