this isn't supposed to be this big... is it?

OnewngdAngel88 · Post by **OnewngdAngel88** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 3:05 pm

Ok, I have been experimenting with codecs and it's my first time working with the codec or I forgot the proper name for it but it's something like huffyuv(.avi). I'm making a music video to bloodlust and it's also in .avi. I have finished it but when I go to export it in something like let's say .mpeg, the file is huge and is like 9.8 gigabytes. Now, I know I'm doing something wrong but I have no idea what it is that I'm doing wrong. Please someone help me with this before I light my computer (or at least) the program a flame. Thank you.
~Kyle~

Org Profile · Post by **808-buma** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 3:36 pm

if you mean that the AVI file is 9gigs, well, it could be...

Huffyuv isn't the most compact of compression codecs as it is 1) a lossless codec and 2) more optimized for speed of use than say Lagarith (which is also a lossless codec but much more compact).

So, 9gigs for an AMV is not unheard of, but unless it's pretty long, it sounds like you do not have any video cleaning done on your video.

hope this helps...

OnewngdAngel88 · Post by **OnewngdAngel88** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:08 pm

808-buma wrote:if you mean that the AVI file is 9gigs, well, it could be...

Huffyuv isn't the most compact of compression codecs as it is 1) a lossless codec and 2) more optimized for speed of use than say Lagarith (which is also a lossless codec but much more compact).

So, 9gigs for an AMV is not unheard of, but unless it's pretty long, it sounds like you do not have any video cleaning done on your video.

hope this helps...

is there another codec or something totally different I could do to save the disk space? Or something that isn't as big.

OnewngdAngel88 · Post by **OnewngdAngel88** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 5:10 pm

and the video I made is only about 3min and 52 seconds long. (sorry. there's no edit button)

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:34 pm

Well, if you want to play safe for convention submissions and have 95% of the population be able to play your vid easily, I recommend saving the final export as MPEG-2 (or MPEG-1) using TMPGEnc or similar software. Another alternative is saving as XviD (or DivX) since many cons are now accepting that format for submissions, and most (but not all) people have Xvid/Divx installed on their computers. You can use VirtualDubMod and the latest Xvid codec supplied with the AMVapp which I assume you already have installed. Guide to Xvid compression here.

Then you can upload here, or send it to any conventions you so desire.

bum · Post by **bum** » Sun Dec 25, 2005 8:58 pm

Willen wrote:Well, if you want to play safe for convention submissions and have 95% of the population be able to play your vid easily, I recommend saving the final export as MPEG-2

Most people actualy DONT have an mpeg2 codec on there comp, as its not freely available, or not as commonly as mpeg4 codecs are.

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:55 am

bum wrote:
Willen wrote:Well, if you want to play safe for convention submissions and have 95% of the population be able to play your vid easily, I recommend saving the final export as MPEG-2
Most people actualy DONT have an mpeg2 codec on there comp, as its not freely available, or not as commonly as mpeg4 codecs are.

Good point.

I assumed since every single Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. computer with a DVD drive has either WinDVD, PowerDVD of something installed which puts an MPEG-2 decoder on the PC. As for upgraded or self-built PCs, all the retail DVD drives I've purchased and installed came with some kind of MPEG-2 DVD playback software. I'm not sure about Roxio EMC7/8, but Nero 6/7 comes with a DVD playback program and most DVD burners come with either one of the two (I assume if you can burn a DVD movie with the program, the program should be able to play it back).

I need to try to install the latest trial of nero on my non-DVD computer and see if the MPEG-2 decoder gets installed too. Would be a free way of getting a decoder at least until the software trial ends. And I've read that downloading, installing and uninstalling PowerDVD's trial software leaves the MPEG-2 decoder on your system.

OnewngdAngel88 · Post by **OnewngdAngel88** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:10 pm

gah!!! I'm going to kill this computer. Now it deleted the source footage and now when I download it and put it in Adobe Premiere Pro and it says Unsupported Compression in File and it's the same as the movie before. Can someone please tell me either how I recover it from being deleted or how can I fix the problem that I already have because I'm about to light the computer on fire. I don't know if this will help but it's no longer in the recycle bin.