noobie question(s)

[GH]

im currently very new to this site,ive been reading guides and stuff and i have not been fully explained about what Compression, Encoding, and Converting actually is,well....i know what it is,uright,ill start this from scratch i guess instead of coming out and asking the question..say,I made a video with Sony Vegas 7.0,and i finished it but have not rendered it yet,how exactly should i render it to get the highest/bes quality possible and highest/best sound quality,I use AVI clips but they never worked on my comp(Windows XP),so i put them threw "avic" and i set the FourCC Description Code,and FourCC Used Codec as "DIVX",that their would that be called compressing if i used that on a final AVI format project??

[GH]

im currently very new to this site,ive been reading guides and stuff and i have not been fully explained about what Compression, Encoding, and Converting actually is,well....i know what it is,uright,ill start this from scratch i guess instead of coming out and asking the question..say,I made a video with Sony Vegas 7.0,and i finished it but have not rendered it yet,how exactly should i render it to get the highest/bes quality possible and highest/best sound quality,I use AVI clips but they never worked on my comp(Windows XP),so i put them threw "avic" and i set the FourCC Description Code,and FourCC Used Codec as "DIVX",that their would that be called compressing if i used that on a final AVI format project??

this forum unfortinally isent capible of editing posts,so..if you can answer the questions in the 1st post and in this one(non-guides/tuts(cuzz i find them confusing)),what exactly is encoding?,and wut exactly is compressing??

[RosenRed]

First of all, do you need to breathe or are you an android?

It seems to me that you are a bit confused about what you (say you have) read. You managed to read all of these guides in one day? (Isay that because you only joined yesterday.... but even so... Did you actually READ them or you skimmed through them trying to blindly follow?

I suggest you sit down, forget about vegas, premiere and editing in general and slowly read. Make sure you have understood each step, before you move on.

Oh, not to mention that I have read your question and cannot decypher it. If you mean what settings you should use for the XViD/DivX encode I think it is straight forward: Just follow the guides... And NO changing the FourCC of an avi is not encodind it's not compressing, it's nothing you should be doing unless you know what you're doing! Btw where did you find that?

[GH]

First of all, do you need to breathe or are you an android?

It seems to me that you are a bit confused about what you (say you have) read. You managed to read all of these guides in one day? (Isay that because you only joined yesterday.... but even so... Did you actually READ them or you skimmed through them trying to blindly follow?

I suggest you sit down, forget about vegas, premiere and editing in general and slowly read. Make sure you have understood each step, before you move on.

Oh, not to mention that I have read your question and cannot decypher it. If you mean what settings you should use for the XViD/DivX encode I think it is straight forward: Just follow the guides... And NO changing the FourCC of an avi is not encodind it's not compressing, it's nothing you should be doing unless you know what you're doing! Btw where did you find that?

ofc i havent read all the guides in the same day,i read threw many of them and completely hadent understood it,but see,changing the FourCC of an avi lets me import the clips into vegas wich it wouldent let me do before,and where did i find avic you mean?

[RosenRed]

Ok let's take it slowly....

Compressing is making something smaller. Like when you use WinZip to make a file smaller...

Encoding is the process of transforming information from one format into another...

Can't get any simpler than that.... You can encode a video file (say from mpeg to avi - though sometimes this is reffered as transcoding) and compress it at the same time or not. It depends. I insist that you should read more... sorry...

[GH]

Ok let's take it slowly....

Compressing is making something smaller. Like when you use WinZip to make a file smaller...

Encoding is the process of transforming information from one format into another...

Can't get any simpler than that.... You can encode a video file (say from mpeg to avi - though sometimes this is reffered as transcoding) and compress it at the same time or not. It depends. I insist that you should read more... sorry...

ok,thanx that actually helped alot,so now i know the definitions,how do i compress the video and audio?vdub mod?

[RosenRed]

Yeah, you can dot it with vdub if you want... you can do it with vegas, with premiere, with windows movie maker, with anything that exports video...

I suspect that you want to compress your video and audio so you can import them in vegas... DON'T! It is a big big mistake for many reasons... it is best to use uncompressed avis (***someone else might know whether Vegas can handle Lagarith or Huffuv***)

If however you want to export your project from vegas you should have an option on the format you want to export as well as the codec. I haven't used vegas so I can't help you more than that.

[GH]

Yeah, you can dot it with vdub if you want... you can do it with vegas, with premiere, with windows movie maker, with anything that exports video...

I suspect that you want to compress your video and audio so you can import them in vegas... DON'T! It is a big big mistake for many reasons... it is best to use uncompressed avis (***someone else might know whether Vegas can handle Lagarith or Huffuv***)

If however you want to export your project from vegas you should have an option on the format you want to export as well as the codec. I haven't used vegas so I can't help you more than that.

That helped alot,thanks much ^_^