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| FunkY |
| Posted: Feb 21 2012, 07:35 PM |
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Hi all, I'm a newbie here... I've tried searching, but without knowing the precise phrase to search for using the keywords "many", "lots", "loads of" etc... Didn't really help, and what I want to do involves lots of many and loads of more... Been looking through the forums, but I haven't yet found any threads that answer my question (I'm not saying they aren't there, I just haven't found them yet) 
I'm not saying vdub should be faster, I'm saying there has to be a quicker way of doing something I'm sure is only taking so long because of the human element (ie ME):
I've been using vdub for a while now, and I know how to merge video files using it. I'm sure there has to be a faster method than the one I'm using though (append avi segment...). Sure it's fine for linking 2 or 3 files, but what if I want to do 15, or 30? Using the Append Avi Segment method is time consuming, boring, and prone to human error (for instance adding files in the wrong order, or more than once, especially when doing a lot of files).
I'm happy with my compression ratios, I've got 140GB of captured avi down to around 3GB before now. That isn't a problem.
I have a processing settings file so I don't need to manually go through settings, filters and the rest of it (though I often make completely different ones as well so end up doing it half the time anyway)...
I know how to create job lists so that it will process every file in a directory (which is almost exactly what I want it to do).
However I can't for the life of me figure out how to get it to create a job queue that saves as a single compressed avi file. Instead it processes the jobs as individual files, which then still have to be merged. When I manually create the queue (append avi segment for each file) I can just save it as avi and it compresses the data into one file. I can't do this with the job list though?
Surely I don't have to continue to do it manually (which I've been doing for ages, and I'm getting tired of it lol) when the features are already there to use?
I've tried renaming all the files so they share a file name with sequential numbers file001.avi, file002.avi, and so on, but it does NOT automatically load sequential files (which I'd assume would be classed as linked segments that should automatically load?)
What's my stupid mistake? What option have I so far been oblivious too? What necessary step have I forgotten? Please help!  |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Feb 21 2012, 07:48 PM |
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There's a checkbox on the append segment dialog - have you tried with it checked ?
You should just be able to append the second file and the rest auto append
If it is checked and the files aren't appending, have you numbered them correctly?
eg
file 0001
file 0002
..
file 0009
file 0010
not
file 1
file 2
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file 9
file 10
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| FunkY |
| Posted: Feb 21 2012, 08:30 PM |
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I'm dumb lol...
I've been scouring the internet for ages, and it was eventually a youtube comment that told me where I was going wrong... As you put it:
| QUOTE (dloneranger) | | You should just be able to append the second file and the rest auto append |
I had the numbering correct (though not originally, I figured that bit out a couple of hours ago).
I was expecting the "Automatically Load Linked Segments" option being checked to automatically load linked segments (silly of me to expect that or not?). Like an idiot I didn't realise (until about 20 minutes ago) that I still had to append the second avi file to make it add the rest of the list... |
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| dloneranger |
| Posted: Feb 21 2012, 09:10 PM |
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I just checked in the source code and for the 'load linked segments' to work, the files have to be numbered like this
(it checks the ending for a . and 2 digits)
somename.00.avi
somename.01.avi
somename.02.avi
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