video compression

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:27 pm

I'm using WMM, and since there's often considerable quality loss when I save with "High Quality Video" I decided to try "DV-AVI". That of course makes the file huge. It was 676 MB so I compressed it with DIVX in VirtualDub, but I could only get it down to 105 MB. Is there any way to get it down to a reasonable size without much quality reduction?

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:41 pm

Try compressing your audio as well.

oceanangel2you · Post by **oceanangel2you** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 10:43 pm

I had the same problem with my last video but it was over 5 minutes long, the best I could get in divx was 140mb so your doing better than me, on wmv I chose the second option fit to size and ran the mb's up as far as the would go, as the highest it will go is 2.0 but this usually produces the best quality in wmv, as far as the divx, I would like to know the answer to that myself, as when I got mine under 100mb's in divx there was no video only sound

Digitalmaster3605 · Post by **Digitalmaster3605** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:17 am

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

digifreak, do what kinon said, and compress your audio to mp3, if you're using an uncompressed .wav, and digifreak and oceanangel2you look at the guide i linked, and try a 2pass XviD

oceanangel2you · Post by **oceanangel2you** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:22 am

Cool have to try that, I already use mp3 but I will try that 2pass and see how it comes out next time I also needed one of those codec's so thanks again

Hope it works out for you too digifreak

YouTube · Post by **Kionon** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 12:55 am

Digitalmaster3605 wrote:http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/xvid.html

digifreak, do what kinon said, and compress your audio to mp3, if you're using an uncompressed .wav, and digifreak and oceanangel2you look at the guide i linked, and try a 2pass XviD

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BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:08 am

Kionon wrote:
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shiro_clanclan · Post by **shiro_clanclan** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:13 am

DV-AVI? Did you check the resulting file for integrity? Every time I save as DV-AVI I get static in the audio and de-synching in the video all over the place.

Other than that I can't make suggestions... I don't like DV-AVI, it doesn't play well with others. -_-;

Digitalmaster3605 · Post by **Digitalmaster3605** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:31 am

BasharOfTheAges wrote:
Kionon wrote:
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I'm quite impressed. You ninja'd that advice from me quite well.

Bashar, sorry about that. <_< I've been up for like 20 hours, and I was mixing threads.

digifreak · Post by **digifreak** » Wed Aug 02, 2006 8:38 am

Thanks. I used .wav audio 'cause, like shiro_clanclan said, the audio gets messed up if I use anything else. And if you chose the second option fit to size and run the mb's up as far as the would go it's actually not quite as good as "High Quality". I compared them.