Help finding the right video editor to...

[SyberiaWinx]

*runs in circles*

All this bitrate stuff would be lost on both of us.

The source is a video game. He recorded the scenes onto his PC using some kind of device.

My editor is WMM.>_>; Don't give me that look.;-;

[Kionon]

*runs in circles*

All this bitrate stuff would be lost on both of us.

The source is a video game. He recorded the scenes onto his PC using some kind of device.

Didn't answer my question though. Can we start over? I'll still help you add the letterboxing, but I want you to start off with the best footage quality you can (and in fact, there may be a way to rip the scenes directly from the video game if it's a disc). There should be a way to set the resolution, codec, container, and bitrate for his capture device.

My editor is WMM.>_>; Don't give me that look.;-;

Too late. And WMM should be able to handle lossless .avi, I think.

[SyberiaWinx]

I tried ripping the scenes from the disk, but only got a few. He could probably do it again technically, but that's asking a lot of him. He had to play through the entire game to get those scenes.

[SyberiaWinx]

resolution, codec, container, and bitrate

Say he should rip them again, what should he choose for those?

[Kionon]

resolution, codec, container, and bitrate

Say he should rip them again, what should he choose for those?

Resolution: 640x480 (fairly standard for standard definition 4:3 source)
Codec: HUFFYUV, Lagarith, Uncompressed if he has the space, you shouldn't worry about bitrate with lossless. If he needs to compress, then DV, and the highest bitrate he can afford.

[Kionon]

resolution, codec, container, and bitrate

Say he should rip them again, what should he choose for those?

Resolution: 640x480 (fairly standard for standard definition 4:3 source)
Codec: HUFFYUV, Lagarith, Uncompressed if he has the space, you shouldn't worry about bitrate with lossless. If he needs to compress, then DV, and the highest bitrate he can afford.

Oh container should be .avi

Bah double post.

[Phantasmagoriat]

He tried, but:
I go to "Run Script" and when I click on the AVS file I get the splendid message "Parse error."

reading over this again, "Run Script" is not meant for .avs scripts [actually I've never used this feature before]. You want to simply Open the .avs script, either through the File menu, or by drag-and-drop into virtualdubmod.

I'm still a bit fuzzy on the file format you are trying to open, but if you were trying to use the XviD.wmv's as your source[if that's what your saying, that may be your whole problem], wmv is a proprietary container of microsoft, and is not meant to be supported by vdub [not to mention with an XviD video stream; bad]. Although there's a chance you can get it to work through directshowsource(), you are much better off using the originals...

resolution, codec, container, and bitrate

Say he should rip them again, what should he choose for those?

what format you ask?
Resolution: as high as it goes: probably 720x480 which will be scaled to 640x480 to fix the 4:3 aspect ratio [like Kio said ]
Codec: Anything lossless: HUFFYUV, Lagarith [beware of gigantic file sizes]
container: .avi, or if you can get it to .m2v after the rip process, you can avoid HUFFYUV
bitrate: as high as it goes: a combination of resolution and scene-complexity determine what it will be; but losslessly, don't worry.

I tried ripping the scenes from the disk, but only got a few. He could probably do it again technically, but that's asking a lot of him. He had to play through the entire game to get those scenes.

this sounds like gold to me; tell us as much about the ripped file as possible. Game, what gaming platform, file extension/container... others.

[SyberiaWinx]

Space is a big issue. Neither one of us has the space to have huge scenes on our PC. Better quality would be nice, but it sounds like doing so will make the files way too big.

[Kariudo]

*note*
WMM doesn't play nice with Lagarith

open the video file in virtualdub mod go to video->compression->Huffyuv or Lagarith

then go to file->save


use those to mark the beginning and the end of the "clips" you want so you can save room

from there you would go to file, save, select codec (HuffYuv)
it's a bit of work...but it saves space, retains quality, and you'll end up making clips somewhere along the editing process anyway
I think this is the most quoted quote on the site...*finally bookmarks*

[SyberiaWinx]

He seems unsure about the options listed for getting the scenes in better quality. He has no idea what DV is and says his recorder has very few options available.;-;