What video compression should be used with Virtual Dub

MarkFoley wrote on 1/30/2004, 12:28 PM

For those who use Virtual Dub....
What is the best (quality) video compression should you use in saving an avi file in Virtual dub that is to be used with Vegas. I just discovered virtual dub...great program...however, I soon found out the uncompressed RGB avi is rather large :-)

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JJKizak wrote on 1/30/2004, 3:12 PM

I use Main Concept standalone or Cinemacraft. Canopus can be used for playback only. Yes, you must purchase them.

JJK

johnmeyer wrote on 1/30/2004, 6:08 PM

The MainConcept standalone DV encoder (not to be confused with their more expensive MPEG2 standalone encoder) is very good and is what I use.

Some people prefer the free Huffy encoder. The files are larger than DV, but not as large as uncompressed.

MarkFoley wrote on 1/31/2004, 12:58 AM

Is this the Main Concept DV Codec you are refering too? If it is, any suggested settings of the codec...or just go with the default....

JJKizak wrote on 1/31/2004, 5:06 AM

I just set mine to 100% and there are not very many other settings. The cinemacraft encoder has dual pass settings and a slew of adjustments.

JJK

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/31/2004, 6:42 AM

You can use the freely available Panasonic DV codec. Do a search for “Panasonic DV codec” or a file named “pdvcodec.zip”. I just did a quick google and found it here. I originally got it with my Panasonic PVDV-601 camcorder but the I one they released for free is a later version so I’ve been using that with VirtualDub instead. I assume it’s the same codec my camera uses so for me, it’s as good as it gets. ;-)

~jr