fed up with sucky footage! how do you prepare your footage??

[post-it]

-- if it helps any, mine follows a different Guide:

DVD --- > Smart Ripper --- > ###.vob to hard drive.

VirtualDubMOD, de-interlace or telecide, --- > CorePNG.

from there, my Editer can do the rest.

CorePNG --- > Descreet 6.0 --- > VurtualDub 1.4.10 --- > AMV.avi

-- use the Guides when ever possible; my way seems to only work for me!

[taifunbrowser]

nice... but still, Everytime I encode with divx I get teh annoying little divx logo in the corner.....

[Scintilla]

I know I really didnt want to use virtualdub again, but virtualdubmod doesnt remove the audio...

It can. If you're using VDubMod 1.5.x, go to the Streams menu and bring up the streams list, then click "Disable". If you're using VDubMod 1.4.x, I believe there's an option on the Audio menu to disable the audio.

Also, my setting, I just saw your last post on the other thing, and you said the best codec to choose when exporting from wmv, and I realize that was probably my biggest mistake (just choosing the default setting) ok, well, is there nething else I should fix? lol

You didn't answer the question -- what setting is that? From what you say below, I assume you're talking about DV AVI, which is probably the best quality you'll get out of WMM (but see downwithpants's WMM2 guide and links).

oh, and I forgot a step- wmv saves as an avi, and then I "save as" to an MPEG... I know you'll think thats horrible, so sock it to me- what do I download to make an avi to an MPEG efficiently?

I don't think it's horrible, I'm just curious -- you said you "save as" an MPEG, but <i>in what program?</i>

[taifunbrowser]

I just open windows movie viewer, and preview the movie, when I am satisfied, I just go to "file, save as" crude aint it???

[taifunbrowser]

thanx scintella- you just made my day! yay... now I dont have to wait those extra 30 minutes removing the audio and lowering the quality


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[Scintilla]

nice... but still, Everytime I encode with divx I get teh annoying little divx logo in the corner.....

Go to the Start Menu, find the DivX folder under the Programs list, open up the decoder configuration, and under the Quality Settings tab, check the box that says "Disable Logo".

[taifunbrowser]

you jsut succeded in making my day 2x!!! yay... no more annoying little logo thx

[taifunbrowser]

wats corepng??? just wondering....

[Scintilla]

I just open windows movie viewer, and preview the movie, when I am satisfied, I just go to "file, save as" crude aint it???

You mean Windows Media Player? If so, just... no. That cannot be good.

Windows Media Player isn't meant to encode files. If you "Save As..." in it, all that does is create a copy of the input file with a different name. What I'm saying is that, if you play an AVI in WMP and try to save it with the .MPG extension, your "MPEG" file is still actually going to be an AVI, the same as the file you put in. Renaming it as an MPEG does not actually <i>make</i> it so.

What you need is <a href="http://www.tmpgenc.net">TMPGEnc</a> or some other program that's meant for encoding MPEGs. Also check out <a href="/guides/avtechbeta/mpeg1.html">ErMaC's guide to encoding MPEG-1 with TMPGEnc</a>.

[taifunbrowser]

Just downloaded tmpeg thx... ok, I"ll remeber that too lol