premiere 6.5 + Divx

[goslac]

Hi everyone,

Newbie question. I am using Premiere 6.5 to capture and edit my camcorder videos. After editing my video, I think I know how to compress my audio file to mp3 but I am having trouble to compress the video file to divx. I am using DivX 5.02. How do you set this up, How good is the quality doing so?
I'd like to keep my videos on 1 CD if possible. Are divX and Xvid the only codec you can use to do this? Ah and one more question is it better to do a DVD using the MPEG encoder in Premiere + DVDit or DVD maestro and then use GordianKnot to get the final DivX?
I am just learning, please have mercy!

Thanks in advance

Goslac :)

[Babeinternational]

bb did a good DV to DivX guide on this forum. You can use it as a reference. (curtsies)
For DivX encoding, you don't need to(and you mustn't) compress to MPEG-2 (DVD) first and then to DivX because you'd lose a lot of data in the process. And you'll see DivX and XviD are better codecs than MPEG-2...
You may compress it directly to DivX. But you can still use Gordian Knot, especially if you have DiVX 5.0.2 (5.0.3 not (yet?) supported); DVX can be used, too (very flexible).
You just just load your avi, without the DVD ripping process .
Good filters are Circonvolution3d and FluxSmooth (you have to edit the script for those and place either one before cropping or both, and to my mind Lanczos resizing (x,y) is better than Bicubic Resize), but sometimes using Adobe filters on your edit before exporting your DV file may be very useful(dark scenes, bright colors,etc. When you have dark scene AND bright colors knock your head on the wall :-D).
Try to encode first with 1-pass Quality based (quantizer set to 2=100 % (that's where DivX 5.0.3 is better, you can set quant to 1 in the command line)); you'll see the best quality you can get. Then try different bitrates (with 2 passes) to get the best bet (tip: I use small DV files for that, with some frames of each scene, to be sure this DV is representative)
Hope this helps.

[goslac]

Thank you for your response.
I did print out the guide DV to DivX from bb and it helped me. One question though, how do you use the filters to deinterlace?
I have Avisynth2. Do you have to write one script like with Circonvolution3d, FluxSmooth and others?

Goslac ;)

[Babeinternational]

To my mind, one good way to deinterlace (according to speed vs. quality) is to use LoadPlugin("'decomb's directory'\decomb.dll")then FieldDeinterlace().
You can also use the Vdub filters (check www.100fps.com).
And yes you can use Circonvolution3d and FluxSmooth (but beware, as DV is not YV12, that you don't have Circonvolution3dYV12)
One (I think)good script may be:
LoadPlugin("D:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("D:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\FluxSmooth.dll")
LoadPlugin("D:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\Convolution3d.dll")
avisource("file directory\DVfile.avi")
FieldDeinterlace()
crop...
Convolution3d(0,8,16,8,8,2,0)
LanczosResize(x,y)
FluxSmooth(7,7)
Limiter()

[bb]

Never heard about "Circonvolution3d". You are probably talking about Convolution3D?

bb

[Babeinternational]

Oups...my mistake(s).
I have a 3DStudio scene called Circle Revolution, I think I was elsewhere. It is of course Convolution3d. Sorry. Next time I'd just copy and paste one of my scripts.:-D