how do you make YOUR movies

[rsmith16384]

i welcome critisim about the way im making mine in the hopes of learning a better way

video codec: xvid (latest) 2 pass, all defaults
audio codec: ogg vorbis (latest), 128kbps mode3+
program: xmpeg 5.03 , deinterlace=motion detection, no resize, crop blackness, colorspace=YUY, high quality audio conversion, i make the end file size 718mb using xvid's calculator

this produces nice movies every time but im curious if anything could make them look any better

[Wilbert]

1) What is your source?

2) How come you don't resize? Do you use this ar settings in XviD?

3) Did you look at the guides at this site (www.doom9.org).

[SoonUDie]

Well, I haven't done any home movies in a while, so here's how I backup my DVDs...

Extract VOB files -> DVD2AVI project -> Avisynth (filtering through the roof) -> XviD 2-pass (either HVS-Best or a matrix I custom make for the source) and either using the 5.1 AC3 audio or decoding and compressing to AAC or MPC -> MKV container.

I may change to another audio format to take advantage of 5.1 encoding in the future (i.e. WMA or whatever), but I haven't surveyed all the possibilties yet and I don't have a system that can output anything but AC3 in 5.1 for the moment (laptop).