Encoding an AVI file with DivX?

[Zune]

I've used GordianKnot in combination with Divx5 for quite some time now to encode some of my DVDs. I'm a relative amateur, but I have been able to get pretty good results with my rips/encodes. I recently bought a digital video camera (miniDV - Sony)...when I capture the video files onto my computer, they are HUGE (ie. 6Gb for a 30min clip!) I was thinking of encoding them into DivX files to save space while keeping some good quality. Any advice on the best way to do this? I use Adobe Premiere to edit my files, & there's an option to save my projects with DivX encryption...would this work, or should I use another application like GordianKnot for better results? I also saw that DivX has a new application (Dr. DivX) for encoding...is it any good? Thanks for any advice.

P.S.- I apologize if this has been answered in another thread or forum...I searched through the FAQs & other forums, & couldn't find any definitive help.

Alain A. Proulx, MD
London ON Canada

[jggimi]

Recent releases of Gknot accept AVI or AVS as input. So, you could use your existing toolset to convert from DV to DivX as you desire, using either input method.

Dr. DivX is a commercial product, and, as far as I know, still in Beta status.

If you have Adobe, you could try it's DivX encoding capabilities, which, I think, would answer that question.

You might also peruse the DV forum, which may have additional recommendations for you.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I use Adobe Premier 6.5 at work to convert .avi to DivX. It works quite well but you don't get much choice when it comes to the audio. If I remember rightly PCM is about it!

However, Ulead MediaStudio Pro 7.0 gives you the opportunity to output the video to DivX with Mp3 audio.

I think you can still download a fully working trial from their website.

TMPGEnc is ok but it's not the easiest to use and it encodes the audio and the video separately which can produce sync problems.