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| WoodyTX |
| Posted: Jul 4 2012, 09:09 PM |
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I have some video I recently shot on an older camcorder, a Canon ZR500, recorded on DV tape. Because the coin battery in the camera was dead, the date-time codes on the recordings are screwy.
I used Windows Movie Maker on a Windows 7 64-bit computer to transfer the video through a 1394 connection. The video is extremely clean, but the file is large, and is one continuous movie.
I'd like to cut the individual scenes into their own movies, and have tried using the direct stream method, but the resulting video shows a lot of interlacing (assuming that's the right term), especially around movement, and the file isn't much smaller than the original (if at all).
I've also tried a couple of other editors, but all of them result in a much less clean video than the original. Is this some kind of DirectShow aspect, do I need to go find better codecs, or am I just setting up VirtualDub incorrectly?
I'm willing to use whatever free (or reasonably priced) software necessary to edit these movies (and any others I may take), but I can't seem to get a decent result with any approach.
Any advice or suggestion is appreciated. FWIW, I am pretty much a noob at this.
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| Abrazo |
| Posted: Jul 5 2012, 10:00 AM |
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It is not easy to explain these things in a few words...
Installation of VirtualDub:
- first install VirtualDub 1.9.11 (stable version) or 1.10.2 (experimental)
On a Windows 7-64 bit you can install the 64-bit version of VirtualDub (32-bit version also works)
Take care to always install xx-bit codecs and inputfilters corresponding to the xx-bit version of your VirtualDub installation
(Maybe it would be good to install the 32-bit version, because not all filters are available in 64-bit version if you should need them.)
Installation of codecs
- for VirtualDub you need "Video for windows" compatible codecs.
Video codecs (normally for free):
- DivX / Xvid / x264vfw (please look at the end of the thread below to find hyperlinks)
http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act...=ST&f=4&t=21107
Audio codec (also for free)
- Fraunhofer MPEG Layer-3 (please look the hyperlink below to "how to install" - if not yet done)
http://www.looprecorder.de/tut_l3codec.php
Installation of filter(s) (that has/have an impact on the images - so with this I do not mean inputfilters for opening other videoformats)
- de-interlace area-based (Gunnar Thalin)
http://www.guthspot.se/video/
How to "Save as AVI..." ?
- Open your original file in VirtualDub
- In the Video- and in the Audio-menu, choose "Full processing mode"
- In the Video- and in the Audio-menu, go to Compression..., choose a codec and set a bitrate
- In the Video-menu, Filters..., click Add... and choose the "deinterlace - area based" (uncheck the three boxes / leave the default numbers), click OK
- Finallly click File > Save as AVI... ; choose a destination disk and folder, type a name for the new file, click Save.
Please come back if you have more news or if you need more info. |
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| WoodyTX |
| Posted: Jul 5 2012, 10:31 PM |
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Thank you very much for that! I tested it without compression, and the video looks just as good as the original. Now I just have to fiddle with the various codecs to see which works best.
BTW, this is mostly action footage. Is one codec or set of settings preferred for movement and action? |
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| Abrazo |
| Posted: Jul 6 2012, 08:38 AM |
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1) The choice for a codec is something that you have to decide for yourself.
All three proposed codecs have their qualities, and they all must be capable to achieve approximately the same quality for a similar bitrate.
I think that x264vfw is one of the most recent ones and maybe to prefer.
2) The settings that you will have to apply for de-interlacing will depend a little on the strength of movement in your footage.
You can control the result of your settings by walking through the images in VirtualDub, using the [Output playback] and/or the [Forward] buttons in the Position control bar.
The Input video pane on the left shows you the original image,
the Output video pane at the right shows you the result after the (de-interlacing) filter(s) has/have been applied (and before encoding).
Also do some test with the difference between 'interpolate' and 'blend' setting in the de-interlacing filter.
It all depends on what you prefer as your result.
If you want to see what the result will be 'after encoding', thus what the very resulting file will be, than you check the little box "Show decompressed video" in the VirtualDub 'Status' window, while the compression is running.
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