Your Typical Compression

The Wired Knight · Post by **The Wired Knight** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:39 pm

Just wondering, since obviously we don't upload our huge Huffy AVIs or Mpeg2 files up to the org for download, what do you typically compress your audio and video into before puting them here for download?

Rurounikeitaro · Post by **Rurounikeitaro** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:50 pm

I compress my video using Xvid 1.0.1 that is DivX compatible with Absolute's video compression guide

I export my audio out of Premiere in Wav seperately and then compress it using BeSweet GUI at 192 kb/s using Abosolute's audio compression guide

They're the best ways I know for AVI compression.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:51 pm

For just storage on the HD, I'll leave it as a Huffyuv or Lagarith with uncompressed audio. If we're talking con submissions, usually an MPEG-2.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:24 pm

http://x264.nl/
http://xiph.org/vorbis/
http://www.audiocoding.com/
http://www.matroska.org/
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/auth_mp4box.php

All else is moot.

amvwizard · Post by **amvwizard** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:27 pm

trythil wrote:http://x264.nl/
http://xiph.org/vorbis/
http://www.audiocoding.com/
http://www.matroska.org/
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/auth_mp4box.php

All else is moot.

what is moot....

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon May 01, 2006 3:56 pm

amvwizard wrote:
trythil wrote:http://x264.nl/
http://xiph.org/vorbis/
http://www.audiocoding.com/
http://www.matroska.org/
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/auth_mp4box.php

All else is moot.
what is moot....

The intended meaning is "obsolete", which can be gleaned from any modern dictionary.

doomer000 · Post by **doomer000** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:06 pm

I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.

greenjinjo · Post by **greenjinjo** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:18 pm

doomer000 wrote:I prefer RM or WMV i hate huge files.

Are... you.... serious....?

RM makes baby Koop cry

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:22 pm

I do xvid compression with Vdub using 1st pass set to 45mbs. If the video is over 5 minutes, or the first pass isn't pretty enough, I'll raise it a little gradually till I find what I like. Or, if the first pass is perfect, I'll lower it till I can see a difference. I typically use this script for the resizing and a little filtering:
Convolution3d(1,8,8,8,8,3,0)
BicubicResize(480,352,0,0.5)

For the audio, I use Besweet to go from wav to mp3 and then attach it with Nandub. I used to use a different audio compression, but the file size was notably bigger with no change in quality (to my non-expert ears).

I tend to prefilter a lot depending on the source, so I rarely have to change my distribution method. As long as it gets me a clean vid under 50mbs, I'm happy.

x_rex30 · Post by **x_rex30** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:32 pm

I huffyuv my files.. use some default uncompressed format for audio.. then take files I compressed to those formats in Vdub and use LAME and xvid..