mazzo
19th December 2002, 17:39
The last days I've used my computer as a video recorder. The files will be bigger than one cd, of course, so I've used Gordian Knot to make the movies fit in. And I've tried. And I've failed. And I've suceeded. At last. First of all, I was tipped by someone (Hakko?) that I could add one trim to another to get rid of commercial breaks, i.e trim(580,2682)+trim(4500,10000)
The avisynth manual says that the audio will be trimmed accordingly, but that didn't happen, not with GordianKnot, anyway. It started at 0 and ended where the video ended on my first tries.
OK - this way I got the best result - after having the captured avi(s):
1. Write an .avs where you just open your captured avi, or your avi sequence, using either avisource("file1")+avisource("file2").... or segmentedavisource("filename").
2. Open the .avs in VirtualDub and find the parts you want to trim. Add the line with trim(start,end)+trim(nextstart,nextend)... in your .avs script. Close the file in VirtualDub and open the edited .avs
3. Now you'll have your trimmed movie. Save the audio as WAV, and get the total frame number using "File Information". If you want to, edit the WAV file in an editor like Sound Force, normalize it, give it some compression and maybe noise reduction.
4. Open Gordian Knot. Fill in your total of frames, the desired audio bitrate and so on, move to resolution where you do your normal stuff, and move the slider til you're not very far from 0.17 bits/(Pixel*Frame). Put the resize information into your .avs.
5. Choose "encoder" from the Gordian Knot Menu. Add the job. You select your self written .avs as "Frame Server". I haven't been able to find out how you encode the credita separately and then add them to the project this way, so you don't have any .avs script for the credits Frame Server.
6. You choose your wav file as audio file. Choose "Mux only" and skip the azid/besweet stuff.
7. Add the jo and start encoding.
8. You should now get a divx file with the desired size.
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Does any of you have a comment or two to this?
The avisynth manual says that the audio will be trimmed accordingly, but that didn't happen, not with GordianKnot, anyway. It started at 0 and ended where the video ended on my first tries.
OK - this way I got the best result - after having the captured avi(s):
1. Write an .avs where you just open your captured avi, or your avi sequence, using either avisource("file1")+avisource("file2").... or segmentedavisource("filename").
2. Open the .avs in VirtualDub and find the parts you want to trim. Add the line with trim(start,end)+trim(nextstart,nextend)... in your .avs script. Close the file in VirtualDub and open the edited .avs
3. Now you'll have your trimmed movie. Save the audio as WAV, and get the total frame number using "File Information". If you want to, edit the WAV file in an editor like Sound Force, normalize it, give it some compression and maybe noise reduction.
4. Open Gordian Knot. Fill in your total of frames, the desired audio bitrate and so on, move to resolution where you do your normal stuff, and move the slider til you're not very far from 0.17 bits/(Pixel*Frame). Put the resize information into your .avs.
5. Choose "encoder" from the Gordian Knot Menu. Add the job. You select your self written .avs as "Frame Server". I haven't been able to find out how you encode the credita separately and then add them to the project this way, so you don't have any .avs script for the credits Frame Server.
6. You choose your wav file as audio file. Choose "Mux only" and skip the azid/besweet stuff.
7. Add the jo and start encoding.
8. You should now get a divx file with the desired size.
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Does any of you have a comment or two to this?