Gurnsy
26th February 2005, 13:56
Hello to all,
I am totally new to the world of capturing and encoding video, so please forgive my question if it is a "head-slapper".
Firstly, my thanks to this excellent forum and its contributers.
By searching the posts as advised it has enabled me to get from zero to where I am now.
Back on topic, here is the project.
- Capturing in-game AVI's from "Everquest 2" using Fraps.
- Sequencing and editing the AVI's in Premiere Pro v7.0.
- Exporting the project from Premiere using a lossless Codec (HuffyUV v2.1.1) yielding a good 2GB AVI.
- Using VirtualDub v1.6.3 to convert the HuffyUV AVI to XviD yielding a good 37MB AVI. I used the default XviD options here (AS@L5, Single Pass Encoding).
The issue I'm seeing is a general loss of brightness in the final XviD AVI. There are no other anomalies or artifacts displayed.
I'm using Windows Media Player 9 and Media Player Classic v6.4.8.2 to test this and they both exhibit the same symptom.
(I do not have any other MPEG-4 codecs installed, just XviD).
The HuffyUV AVI plays at the correct brightness in the same media players.
Scratching my head now and pondering...
- could there be no actual brightness loss at all in the XviD AVI and it just how the media players are decoding and playing XviD?
or
- did the conversion from HuffyUV > XviD really introduce some loss of brightness?
I'm guesing it is the latter...
Could anyone please offer me any pointers or advice?
Many thanks in advance,
Gurnsy
I am totally new to the world of capturing and encoding video, so please forgive my question if it is a "head-slapper".
Firstly, my thanks to this excellent forum and its contributers.
By searching the posts as advised it has enabled me to get from zero to where I am now.
Back on topic, here is the project.
- Capturing in-game AVI's from "Everquest 2" using Fraps.
- Sequencing and editing the AVI's in Premiere Pro v7.0.
- Exporting the project from Premiere using a lossless Codec (HuffyUV v2.1.1) yielding a good 2GB AVI.
- Using VirtualDub v1.6.3 to convert the HuffyUV AVI to XviD yielding a good 37MB AVI. I used the default XviD options here (AS@L5, Single Pass Encoding).
The issue I'm seeing is a general loss of brightness in the final XviD AVI. There are no other anomalies or artifacts displayed.
I'm using Windows Media Player 9 and Media Player Classic v6.4.8.2 to test this and they both exhibit the same symptom.
(I do not have any other MPEG-4 codecs installed, just XviD).
The HuffyUV AVI plays at the correct brightness in the same media players.
Scratching my head now and pondering...
- could there be no actual brightness loss at all in the XviD AVI and it just how the media players are decoding and playing XviD?
or
- did the conversion from HuffyUV > XviD really introduce some loss of brightness?
I'm guesing it is the latter...
Could anyone please offer me any pointers or advice?
Many thanks in advance,
Gurnsy