Disclaimer: This tutorial does not guarantee you great quality.
It's only a good tool in the fight against bad quality.[/i]This tutorial will hopefully learn you how to achieve the best possible quality with the Xvid video codec and the LAME audio codec.[/b]
Step 1: First we have to grab some software in order for this to happen, use the links below.
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Xvid (Nic's Version)•
LAME Encoder•
LAME ACM Codec•
The Huffyuv Codec•
Virtual Dub[/b]Step 2: Now you're gonna have to render your movie uncompressed.
I will be guiding you through this in Vegas, don't hit your head if you're using another editing program since this should pretty much be the same regardless of what you use.
Lets start.
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Step 3: I have no idea why this is even an option but select
Best on the
Video Rendering Quality option.
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Step 4: Now lets go to the video options.
It's important that everything is like it is in the screenshot except for the framerate if it's a San Andreas movie, then it should be 25 fps instead of 30.
It's also very important that you use the 2.1.1 version of the Huffyuv codec and
NOT version 2.2.0
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Step 5: Go to the audio options and make sure "Include Audio" is unchecked, we will render the audio separate from the video and merge the together later.
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Step 6: The video options are as good as they can get, render the video now.
Keep in mind that this may take a little time and a lot of space so make sure you render it on a fast hard drive with a good amount of free space on.
Step 7: Now you have hopefully finished rendering the video, it's time the for the audio.
Press render again and choose .
wav as the output format and press custom.
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Step 8: Make sure everything is like in the screenshot, especially the
Bit DepthRender the audio after this is done.
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Step 9: Time to close whatever you were editing with and open
Virtual Dub.
Now we're gonna import our audio and video before we do anything else.
Press Ctrl+O and locate the video file you rendered with
Huffyuv and import it.
Now Press Audio at the top menu and follow the steps in the screenshot.
When you press
WAV Audio you be asked to select the .wav you wanna use, use the one you just rendered.
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Step 10: A pop-up should now have opened after completing the last step.
This is where we how much our audio shall be compressed and the codec we wanna use to compress the audio with.
Select
LAME and choose
128kbps if you're rendering a Medium Quality version or
192kbps if you're render a High Quality version.
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Step 11: Time to configure Xvid which is the codec we're using to compress our video.
Press
Video which is next to Audio on the top menu and follow the steps in the screenshots.
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Step 12: Enter the settings shown in the screenshots below.
The button with the light blue glow indicates which button you have to press to acces these options[/u].
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Step 13: Now it's time to open a brilliant tool that's included in Xvid called the
Bitrate Calculator.
Here you enter how long your movie is and what you want the final file size to be.
Make sure you configure the options so the bitrate is somewhere between 2250 and 3000kbps.
You must also make sure the audio bitrate is the same as the bitrate you select earlier with the LAME codec.
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Step 14: You can now render your movie.
Keep in your mind the quality may not turn out great on first attempt so i would like to encourage you to try different settings to achieve the best possible quality.[/font]
I hope you found this tutorial helpful and educational.[/i][/font]
