brashquido
17th July 2002, 03:27
Sorry to do this, but I'm encountering a filesize problem that I haven't been able to resolve from searching previous posts.
I'm only new to Gordion Knot, so it's quite likely I stuffed something. The first movie I encoded (Gone in 60 seconds) using Doom9's guide came out perfect. I set the filesize to 700MB, and it came out at about 699.5MB.
The second movie I've been trying to encode is Saving Private Ryan, and I've been having no luck. I've been having two problems, and they maybe connected, I don't know. I've encoded the audio separately with azid and lame as SPR is a long movie (almost 3 hours)and I wanted to encode it in mono at a lower bitrate to reduce audio filesize (about 17MB).
1) When I do a compressiblity check for SPR, all seems to go well until the end where it finishes the check, then nothing is inputed in the compressibilty check section of Gnot.
2) I enter a desired filesize of 770MB for a 90 min CD with audio options disabled, so the 770MB should be for video only. Yet when I encode the movie, the result is a 400MB file. So I tried again, and put 950MB for the video size hoping that the filesize difference was linear, but still the filesize is 400MB. It's not saturation either as the video quality is very poor. Apart from the audio section as I'm just muxing my MP3 at the end, I've followed the Doom9 guide to the letter as far as I can see. What could I be doing so differently that would make the first movie come out perfect, and the second come out at around half the anticipated filesize?
I've set my machine to encode it going by bitrate instead of filesize. Hopefully this may overcome my problem. :confused:
*edit*
Another thing I forgot about was if I close Gnot, then open it again and try to load my SPR project, it comes up with an invalid project error. Something to do with YUV, but I can't remember the exact message.
I'm only new to Gordion Knot, so it's quite likely I stuffed something. The first movie I encoded (Gone in 60 seconds) using Doom9's guide came out perfect. I set the filesize to 700MB, and it came out at about 699.5MB.
The second movie I've been trying to encode is Saving Private Ryan, and I've been having no luck. I've been having two problems, and they maybe connected, I don't know. I've encoded the audio separately with azid and lame as SPR is a long movie (almost 3 hours)and I wanted to encode it in mono at a lower bitrate to reduce audio filesize (about 17MB).
1) When I do a compressiblity check for SPR, all seems to go well until the end where it finishes the check, then nothing is inputed in the compressibilty check section of Gnot.
2) I enter a desired filesize of 770MB for a 90 min CD with audio options disabled, so the 770MB should be for video only. Yet when I encode the movie, the result is a 400MB file. So I tried again, and put 950MB for the video size hoping that the filesize difference was linear, but still the filesize is 400MB. It's not saturation either as the video quality is very poor. Apart from the audio section as I'm just muxing my MP3 at the end, I've followed the Doom9 guide to the letter as far as I can see. What could I be doing so differently that would make the first movie come out perfect, and the second come out at around half the anticipated filesize?
I've set my machine to encode it going by bitrate instead of filesize. Hopefully this may overcome my problem. :confused:
*edit*
Another thing I forgot about was if I close Gnot, then open it again and try to load my SPR project, it comes up with an invalid project error. Something to do with YUV, but I can't remember the exact message.