Whats the best codec?

[Shiroi Kumo]

I'm using Premiere 6.5 and I would like to know what is the best codec to use when exporting?

... And I'm also very sorry if this question has been asked a million times before.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

I'm using Premiere 6.5 and I would like to know what is the best codec to use when exporting?

... And I'm also very sorry if this question has been asked a million times before.

Use Huffyuv to export from premiere, and then compress it with XviD in VirtualDub. This is all explained in the guides that are linked to from the main page.

[jonmartensen]

plus, there is no best codec. It all depends on what you plan to do with the video. Divx is gives you good compression and is fairlly widelly used, Xvid is a bit better, but not quite as extensive in use.

[bum]

wmv9 is prety good, despite what alot of people say. its got a much beter compresion/quality ration than the latest divx5.1

[Scintilla]

wmv9 is prety good, despite what alot of people say.

Seconded. Using Windows Media Encoder with the WMV9 codec, I've found I can produce videos that look like the same quality as my XviDs, at only a slightly larger file size. I think the difference might be due to the fact that I haven't been able to get WME to accept AVS scripts like VDubMod can; I haven't tried using MakeAVIs or whatever the program's called.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

wmv9 is prety good, despite what alot of people say.

Seconded. Using Windows Media Encoder with the WMV9 codec, I've found I can produce videos that look like the same quality as my XviDs, at only a slightly larger file size. I think the difference might be due to the fact that I haven't been able to get WME to accept AVS scripts like VDubMod can; I haven't tried using MakeAVIs or whatever the program's called.

Well whats the point of WMV9 if it yields the same quality as a comparitive XviD encode at a higher filesize? If XviD has a lower filesize, then its the smarter choice, especially if its the same or better quality. Really, I dont know why people insist on catering to people who are too ignorant to notice that microsoft, all its affiliations and products (including video and audio codecs and renderers) SUCK. If they didnt, you wouldnt have to go around downloading third party plugins for every shittly little thing you wanted to do. Sadly, M$ has the monopoly on the market, so unless you want to use MAC, or put in the effort to learn Linux, you're fuckin screwed.

Stick with XviD, and use ffdshow as the decoder. Its faster and yields better quality with the right settings.

[Scintilla]

wmv9 is prety good, despite what alot of people say.

Seconded. Using Windows Media Encoder with the WMV9 codec, I've found I can produce videos that look like the same quality as my XviDs, at only a slightly larger file size. I think the difference might be due to the fact that I haven't been able to get WME to accept AVS scripts like VDubMod can; I haven't tried using MakeAVIs or whatever the program's called.

Well whats the point of WMV9 if it yields the same quality as a comparitive XviD encode at a higher filesize? If XviD has a lower filesize, then its the smarter choice, especially if its the same or better quality. Really, I dont know why people insist on catering to people who are too ignorant to notice that microsoft, all its affiliations and products (including video and audio codecs and renderers) SUCK. If they didnt, you wouldnt have to go around downloading third party plugins for every shittly little thing you wanted to do.

Um, read what I say. I said it was GOOD. I never said that I actually USE it for online distro.
You'll find that all my locally hosted videos are DivX-compatible XviD, and all my directly-linked ones are MPEG-1. No one here's "catering", so calm down.

I didn't realize until after I made that post that I had forgotten to mention the compatibility issues.

[SS5_Majin_Bebi]

haha, lol dont worry, I wasnt pissed off or anything, I was just saying that alot of people seem to be scared to get out from under the microsoft "comfort blanket" (which is actually rather uncomfortable ... go figure ) Jeez, when I started doing this like...2 years ago I was the same. I just dont like when they are catered too, like when people actually go to the effort of using a lower grade form of compression just to keep a few whiners happy. Wasn't saying that you were doing that either.

so dont panic.

[RathNatakaru]

Hmm, best codec. Would Probably be Divx and Xvid. But Wmv9? I only use that for people who are computer codec illiterate.

[CaTaClYsM]

RV9 dominates didgital anime but falls into mediocrity with hand drawn. I don't quite understand how it works but take anime didgital anime, be it Kids story from the Animatrix or Love Hina and you can get video quality that utterly stomps XVID or DIVX.