good quality DivX/XviD encodes

[soundboy]

Hi,

Can someone point me in the right direction as to where to find guides or some kind of help on making good quality DivX and/or XviD encoding (while keeping a reasonable filesize) ?

Here's my situation: I work with DV video on Premiere Pro, and the quality is great if I export to DVD, but whenever I try to encode a small clip (say, for sharing with friends or uploading to YouTube), it comes out looking like crap AND with huge filesizes. I guess I don't know how to properly optimize the settings for the codecs, but there's where I need help.

Also, I have a Canon digital photo camera which shoots pretty good quality video, but the filesizes are huge (over 100MB per minute) and I'd like to reencode them to a more decent size without losing a lot of quality.

Any help would be appreciated!

[DJ Bobo]

Your problem is most probably interlacing.

Sharing with friends or uploading to YouTube involves easy-to-handle files, so I would suggest you deinterlace your videos.

I don't know about Premiere's capabilities, but I would suggest loading your DV file using an AviSynth script, and adding the following lines to deinterlace it:
LoadPlugin("...\TomsMoComp.dll")
TomsMoComp(-1,5,1)
Replace the ... with the path where you decompressed the TomsMoComp archive (Download it from HERE (http://www6.impacthosting.com/trbarry/)).

You can then compress to DivX or whatever format you like.

[soundboy]

Wow, that was it! I had no idea, thanks so much.

I used a guide I found and instead of the filter you suggested, I used VirtualDub with the Smart Deinterlace filter, and had a very dramatic improvement. Thanks!

[sillKotscha]

yes, TomsMoComp is my 'no brainer' deinterlacer of choice as well :)