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| ojo987 |
| Posted: Sep 29 2014, 12:40 AM |
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Hello everyone!
I'm far from being an expert or a programmer, but I have enjoyed using VDub for some very basic video tasks over the last few years. Recently, I've been trying to edit together a few very small video files from a video game. They are .bik files, aka Bink format. I downloaded RAD Video Tools but didn't have much success doing what I wanted to do, so I was thrilled to hear that the FFMPeg Input Driver would help VirtualDub load .bik files. It works great!
However, what I want to do is combine two .bik files. The first part is 603kb and 124 frames; the second part is 2927kb and 563 frames. I'm not sure this is possible in VDub, though I've Appended multiple .avi files to each other in the past with great success. The Append option is greyed out in the menu so that's a no go; the other thing I tried was to open each of the files in separate instances of VDub, select all and copy from the second part, move to the last frame of the first part, and paste. VDub added in the correct number of frames, but unfortunately it did not copy the actual content of those frames over. Am I doing something wrong I wonder?
I'm hoping that someone might have an idea of something else I can try - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
(The only other option I can think of is converting all of these tiny .bik files to .avi's before combining them; however, I still cannot for the life of me figure out a compression codec and setting to use that does not result in an .avi file that is orders of magnitude bigger than the original .bik file. Surely there is some way to save to .avi in a way that results in a similarly sized file with no loss of video information? Perhaps that is a question for another thread.)
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I look forward to any input.
Ojo
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| raffriff42 |
| Posted: Sep 29 2014, 10:59 AM |
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I would say, convert the .bik's to AVI (in some lossless format such as Huffyuv, Lagarith or UTVideo), append these AVI's as normal, and compress the master video:Delete your intermediate AVI's after you are pretty sure the video is finalized
(you can always re-create them from source if you need them again) |
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| ojo987 |
| Posted: Oct 1 2014, 07:51 PM |
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| QUOTE (raffriff42 @ Sep 29 2014, 10:59 AM) | I would say, convert the .bik's to AVI (in some lossless format such as Huffyuv, Lagarith or UTVideo), append these AVI's as normal, and compress the master video:Delete your intermediate AVI's after you are pretty sure the video is finalized
(you can always re-create them from source if you need them again) |
Thanks so much! Your advice worked perfectly. Problem solved!  |
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