Episode encoding

GreenT · Post by **GreenT** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:00 am

Well, me and a friend and a bunch of other people are gonna be fan dubbing the first episode of naruto...But my friend wants a copy of the cropped version I have, but I don't know what codec I should use it. What to you people out there reccomend? =O

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:01 am

I recommend you order the DVD instead; its street date is March 28th, so it wouldn't delay your plans very long.

GreenT · Post by **GreenT** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:24 am

I'd do that...But we'd kinda like to start this VERY soon, I'd get the DVD if it was uncut, bit I don't know...Still, do you have any ideas of what would be a good codec to use keeping the quality and under 5GB?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 1:41 am

Well, what codec does the cropped version you have use?

If it's something distributable like DivX/XviD, you can just send that to him and advise him on <a href="http://www.amvwiki.org/index.php/DivX_Editing">what to do with such footage if you want to edit it</a>.

GreenT · Post by **GreenT** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:04 am

Actually, the cropped version I have is an AVIstynth script....I just need a good codec to encode it with.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:25 am

... Oh. In that case, you're not going to find one that keeps the quality <i>and</i> can encode an entire episode to under 5 GB.

You could try Lagarith; I hear that gives better compression than HuffYUV while remaining lossless.

Other than that, my best suggestion would be MPEG-2 at pretty darn high bitrate settings. That should be more like 1 GB than like 5, and hopefully there won't be too much artifacting.

GreenT · Post by **GreenT** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:18 am

Hmmm...I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the suggestions.