Using X-vid

EnviousMinds wrote on 2/14/2005, 2:48 PM

I am wondering if there is some sort of plug-in available that will allow DVD Arc and Vegas to use x-vid avi's. Rather than having to ue another programs to convert the video taking up hard drive space.. and then using that to make a dvd using DVDA... Thanks

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 2/14/2005, 4:11 PM

Vegas and DVD Architect will generally make use of any coded you have installed on your computer. Of course, once you've rendered your final MPEG-2 for the DVD you don't absolutely need to keep the source files around anymore. If you've got enough room on your hard drive to work with the DV .avi files for one project at a time i would keep them in DV. If not, i would buy another big hard drive.

ThatJimGuy wrote on 2/15/2005, 3:23 PM

I may be wrong, but I think you have to use ffdshow, which I believe is on the XviD and DivX sites.

However, although the size of xvid and divx files is small, and "they" claim the quality is good, I've found it to be very much lacking. I also recommend a large hard drive (I have twin 114G's using a RAID card (striped)) and it is nice and fast and big.

clearvu wrote on 2/15/2005, 5:12 PM

I've been watching quite a few movies lately with Xvid and DivX. They can be suprising stunning. Plus, they often include 5.1 sound. Since I have a DVD player capable of playing these files, I can enjoy the full Home Theatre experience.

As far as using Vegas or DVDA with these file types, I have not been able to figure out how to get them to load. Do keep in mind though that since they are such highly compressed files that Vegas would probably not do very well in editing them. It has a hard enough time with MPEG2, never mind MPEG4.

That being said, if I was to burn an actual MPEG2 DVD, I use NERO to convert them to the acceptable format for DVD.