Best 'changeable' codec
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Best 'changeable' codec
What I'm trying to say here, is what is the best codec to use if, in the future, I want to convert it back to HuffYUV. I'm looking for something that's not too big, maybe around 100-200 megs to store (for about 20-30 minuets of footage). I hope that's specific enough.
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I find xvid at quant 1 is best at preserving quality, unless you set the mpeg-2 bitrate insanely high like 20,000kbit
At least, those are the results that I had the other day when I was messing with a video I had finished. I found that the xvid looked exactly the same as the original anywhere that I checked. Of course, it WASNT exactly the same mathematically, it just looked the same. (which is why you dont wanna compress it over and over even if you compress it with good quality like this.
At least, those are the results that I had the other day when I was messing with a video I had finished. I found that the xvid looked exactly the same as the original anywhere that I checked. Of course, it WASNT exactly the same mathematically, it just looked the same. (which is why you dont wanna compress it over and over even if you compress it with good quality like this.
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It may look good, but it wouldn't recompress very well, even if you turn it into a Huffyuv file first. Too much visual data is lost in the conversion to MPEG-4, even if it's not visible to the naked eye.Zarxrax wrote:I find xvid at quant 1 is best at preserving quality, unless you set the mpeg-2 bitrate insanely high like 20,000kbit
At least, those are the results that I had the other day when I was messing with a video I had finished. I found that the xvid looked exactly the same as the original anywhere that I checked. Of course, it WASNT exactly the same mathematically, it just looked the same. (which is why you dont wanna compress it over and over even if you compress it with good quality like this.
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With the size of my HuffYUV files, I'd still have about 1 gig/ea.WilLoW :--) wrote:I like DV...(despite it's resolution and fps limitations),
and it takes 5 times less space than HuffYUV
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I like to use HuffyUV for all my AVIs when editing because it appears to be the most widly accepted to other programs, however when I export, DV2AVI is the one I prefer to save myself some file size without considerable loss in quality. For MPEGs which I only use for file sharing I only encode in mpeg-2.
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