combining vids

[shion]

hi
I have an anime introduction that i made and want to combine it
with the episode
i used avi edit but i have to reencode and the audio of the episode started playing during the intro
can anyone help me

[Enchanter]

Are the videos of the same resolution and encoded with the same codecs? Also, is the audio from both the sources of the same format? I have no knowledge of AviEdit, but it won't hurt me to know your encoding process.

[shion]

thanx for the help enchanter
as most tutorials told me
they are the same resolution
same div 3
the intro has no audio
that enough?
thanx for the help

[Enchanter]

Try using Virtual/nandub for joining the videos then.

[shion]

nah i did but the problem is that
when i do do that it says incompatible compression types

[UncasMS]

well, then your codec DOES NOT seem to be identical!
have you double-checked your two files???
take a look at the file information in nandub.

[techno]

u may also want to extract the videos as uncompressed RGB (big file size, BIG!) then you can join them together and encode using nandub/virtualdub DIVX 3.11alpha

Techno

[shion]

thanx techno thats the answer that i wanted
becuase by the way i was doing it even though my codecs are the same it didnt seem to join
and if i uncompressed then recompressed a div-x the quality would decline right?
if i changed it to uncompressed RGB would dere b any down sides except for HUGE size

[techno]

No, it shouldn't, if so then maybe 3% loss of quality.

When you do uncompressed RGB, the file sizes will be huge but they become one standard. You then load these RGB uncompressed files in Virtualdub, (append avi segment when adding more avi's of the same type), then you select the DIVX codec (3.11alpha I prefere), use a bitrate calc for the bitrate for low motion, use MP3 as audio and goto > file > save as avi and save the avi and it will encode the uncompressed RGB avi's to DIVX.

Hope it helps



Techno

[shion]

3% ?
how do you know the precise value?
just experience?
and do i have to make my BMP created avi into RGB as well (confirming)
and how big do u think will a 20 min anime be about ?
1gb?

[techno]

Experience I guess.....

Yes, u would have to make the BMP converted to avi into RGB uncompressed too.

20min? erm.....

dunno, maybe about > 10GB, I am not sure.

You can also do it step by step, eg. convert the files to 5mins of RGB uncompressed avi then join them.

You may wish to convert these to MPEG then to DIVX if u want.

Techno

[shion]

10GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wot da hell
i htink i have 2 ditch that method
wait i use the DVD2AVI-VFAPI-NANdub
method
so when i am encoding the anime for the first time
can i just put in the uncompressed intro
at the start?

[techno]

I have no idea!

What u can do is to encode the divx files to MPEG, using TMPGENC and then combine them (using MPEG tools > merge and cut) then you can load this MPEG in virtualdub and encode to DIVX!

Techno

[shion]

GRAAAAAAAAAAAAa
y so long y? y? y? y?
oh well dat seems like a sensbile method
y wouldnt my way of sticking it in uncompressed work?
and when i change to MPG wont is lose quality again?
and going back 2 da first step my codecs r the same

[techno]

No, it shouldn't lose quality, just make sure u brighten the video up a bit before encoding to MPEG.

You can stick to uncompressed RGB but like I said, file size will be huge

Techno