Encoding XVID with Pinnacle Studio

[lapoule]

Hi,

I went through lots of thread on this forum and did not find answer to this simple (stupid ?) question :

I have a camcorder. I download my DV video as an uncompressed avi file. I then use Pinnacle Studio (v8.12) to cut/paste scenes.

Then I want to save my job using xVID (Koepi's 1.0.3) encoding.

Q : should I expect a quality difference if I use
- the xVID codec directly from Studio
or if I use
- a proper DV encoder to get an uncompressed avi file => use VirtualDub to encode my video with xVID

Of course I would use same xVID options in both case...

[Blue_MiSfit]

More often than not editing apps seem to have trouble outputting to XviD (and other codecs afaik).

The best option seems to either use avisynth to load your finished dv-avi, or to save your whole project as huffyuv or similar lossless keyframe codec that will open easily with avisynth of straight into virtualdub.

I believe most of these problems are associated with Premiere, perhaps Pinnacle has a better VFW interface, but if it's anything like Premiere's you will be in trouble :)

Try it lots of ways and let us know how it goes.

~misfit

[lapoule]

Hi

Thanks for your answer.

I gave it a try with both methods (Pinnacle=>xVID and Pinnacle=>YUY2 avi file=>VirtualDub=>xVID) and I have noticed that whatever I do my files are oversized.

I am using VirtualDub 1.5.10 and Koepi's 1.0.3 build for xVID codec.

I am using a two pass encoding, and in second pass if I choose a target size of for instance 5MB (for a 30 second test clip), I am getting a 7 MB file.

I have tried some different settings and always get same oversized file...

Is it a matter of settings ?

[Blue_MiSfit]

if you are getting the oversize in both vdub and pinnacle then I would say you are fine.

Try a longer clip, I usually do 2000+ frames to let the 2 pass rate control really work its magic.

[lapoule]

what do you mean by "2000+frames" ?

[jon.schaffer]

Originally posted by lapoule
"2000+frames"?

Clip with more than 2000 frames I guess...