DJ_Izumi wrote:So now I've hacked together a new AVI with DivX5 for video
If it's quality you're aiming for, how about using XviD
DJ_Izumi wrote:Not only that, but I was greatly surprised when listening to the stream he sent me, it was of higher quality, greater depth of sound, and small details unprecivable in the audio I had originally used (Stripped from a 640x QuickTime file, heh)
Maybe because the Quicktime was encoded from the 192kbs AC3 audio, into something like a 128kbs MPEG audio stream?
DJ_Izumi wrote:but NOT re-encoded so it's the highest possible quality I can accomplish, it's complete with a 6.5 second Dolby Digital 'Enlighten' bumper at the begining before the MPAA bumper.
I'd dump a Huffyuv from Premiere next time, then play around with the encoding all you like without having to botch things together. Keep things consistant that way. It's hard enough getting people to install the correct version of XviD to play my video right (which is bog standard XviD/MP3)
DJ_Izumi wrote:On the other hand, I get to brag that I possible did the first video on the org that was not only 856x480, but was also in Dolby Digital.
Brag all you like

, that rez is screwed anyway. For starters 856 is not a factor of 16. Secondly, if you are aiming for 16:9, the nearest compliant rez is 848x480. The aspect ratio you are using is 1.783 recurring, the 16:9 is 1.77 recurring.
As for bragging rights, I could dump my video as an uB@r resized and filtered 1024x768 XviD with AAC, which wouldn't play on any machine (probably)
DJ_Izumi wrote:but was also in Dolby Digital. (I guess to surpass that, my next video will have to be THX complaint.

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Wouldn't THX compliance specify that the video should be MPEG2 and/or an MPEG system file?
It's nice that people are willing to go out of their way for quality, but I think this is being a little extreme. a 3000kbs XviD with 224kbs MP3 will suffice for most people. (well I use 1900kbs XviD with 160kbs MP3 and my ops for audio and video have been on average 9.7+, so I'm guessing people find that is good enough)