compression question

[Scorpio]

ok i can record halo stuff just fine. i even compress it while its being recorded. but after ive got evrything together , u know after its all edited and perfect, how do i compress it again to make like only 50 mb like u all can?

[FRAiD]

Originally Posted by Scorpio

ok i can record halo stuff just fine. i even compress it while its being recorded. but after ive got evrything together , u know after its all edited and perfect, how do i compress it again to make like only 50 mb like u all can?

What are you using to record? What device?

[Scorpio]

wintv 32 capture card

[FRAiD]

Originally Posted by Scorpio

wintv 32 capture card

I haven't had any experience with that one. Anyone else know how to help him?

A general rule of thumb though, the higher the quality you keep up the better the end result will be, because it's like the more something gets used the more it wears down so the same is like that with videos. If you can't keep the quality and lose some every step of the way the end result will not be good.

See TheHaloGod's tutorial for what he does. In the mean time someone else may chime in with that knowledge.

[Scorpio]

well i dont have the same card as halo2god and ive already looked at it thoroughly. he tutorial really does me no good. half the settings he talks about rnt even available for me as best as i can tell. hes talking about a card that seems to be much different from mine. all i want to know is how to compress my video when its all complete and perfect so it can only take up like 50mb of space instead of 20gb like halo2god's video was. he said his raw montage was huge and then he compressed it to a really small size. all i want to know is how to do that

[thehalogod]

Originally Posted by Scorpio

well i dont have the same card as halo2god and ive already looked at it thoroughly. he tutorial really does me no good. half the settings he talks about rnt even available for me as best as i can tell. hes talking about a card that seems to be much different from mine. all i want to know is how to compress my video when its all complete and perfect so it can only take up like 50mb of space instead of 20gb like halo2god's video was. he said his raw montage was huge and then he compressed it to a really small size. all i want to know is how to do that

When you record don't compress. Compression is always the last stage. Thats why I have a 160 gb harddrive for vidoe stuff only. There should be a setting for uncompressed RGB, but keep in mind that is HUGE. but you need to keep everything you capture uncompressed until the final version.

If you record in MPEG 2 then you can use that portion of my tutorial, do you have the option to record in MPEG 2?

What options do you record to? See its hard for me to help if you just say you want to compress your video and the type of capture card you're using say what settings you have be detailed... because all I know is what you give me.

[Scorpio]

i cannot record to mpeg-2. my only options are AVI and countless DIVX formats. are there any other details u need to know?

thanks

[Scorpio]

o also, for some reason, i can only record 4 gb of video at at time. do i need to partition my hard drive to fix that or wut, becuz i know i have plenty of space

[FRAiD]

Originally Posted by Scorpio

o also, for some reason, i can only record 4 gb of video at at time. do i need to partition my hard drive to fix that or wut, becuz i know i have plenty of space

That's likely because of some weird thing with your capture card.

As for the other stuff, if you could, AVI would work best, but it eats a ridiculous amount of space. That's an uncompressed format. Which Divx ones are there? Divx is good, so you should be able to use one of those. I'd do some research on Divx encoding.

How much did you card cost?

[fragger1191]

I'd say record too AVI, then after editing export to a WMV file (or, export it to whatever format you can, throw it into Windows Movie Maker, and export it as "High Quality Video-Large.") You can also use Windows Media Encoder to compress/convert to .wmv, but be warned: it takes FOREVER!