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2 movie files after using Gordian Knot?

Discussion in 'DivX / XviD' started by piyota, Apr 21, 2005.

  1. piyota

    piyota Member

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    I follow instruction on this website :
    http://www.rita.lt/guides/GKnot_DVDtoAVI.htm
    Everything is doing Ok, until I check the results, it produces 2 big file, one is the abc.avi, the other is abc_movie.avi, the abc.avi has sound, the other doesn't, I don't know why it produces 2 files when I only need 1(the abc.avi). How to set it up to produce only 1 movie?
    The other prob is:
    -I ripped my movie from the DVD, the original file has a width is 720, but in this step in the instruction above:
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    it only allows me to make the width become 704 (not 720), so how to make it keeps the original width 720? Thanks
     
  2. The_OGS

    The_OGS Active member

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    Hi piyota,
    The resolution of your finished AVI is not going to be 720x360 or whatever; the vertical resolution must be divisible by 16 and the horizontal must be divisible by 32.
    GordianKnot enforces a certain relationship between H and V within the aspect ratio, so if you have an anamorphic film on the DVD, GKnot will not allow you to put the heavy 'stretch' on it - it makes sure you are approximately within the aspect ratio specified for the film.
    There are basically 3 'preferred' sizes:
    For 2.35:1 (Panavision widescreen) film - 704x304
    For 1.85:1 (35mm widescreen) film - 640x352
    For 1.33:1 (4:3 'fullscreen') film - 512x384
    There is all kinds of 'width' available but, the big challenge is vertical resolution (height) which is maxed out at 304 pixels in a widescreen film.
    So for the other aspect ratio sizes, it is useful to reduce the width (while the height is going to increase anyway) so you keep a consistent pixel count on the screen.
    In other words, you could encode a 1.85:1 film using the 704 pixel width (like a 2.35:1 film) but, you will have almost 300,000 pixels on the screen - WAY more than a 2.35:1 film which, at 704x304 gives 214,016 pixels.
    The 3 sizes recommended (above) all consistently deliver approximately 200,000 pixels, and so do not 'discriminate' based on aspect ratio...
    This is a somewhat tricky concept - can you see what I mean?
    Also with GKnot, it follows an AVS script (it acts as a frameserver for VDubMod) and many people using DivX codec will encode the closing credits separately (at a lower bitrate, which throws more bits at the main program in a long film).
    GKnot will write 'abc_movie.avi' and 'abc_credits.avi' and then, once it appends them together and muxes the audio, you get the final product 'abc.avi' :^)
    If you look closely, you will find options like 'Save files for all passes' or 'Delete intermediate files (1/2 disc space)'
    Superstitious old-timers save EVERYTHING and delete NOTHING, LoL, because if things fall apart halfway through, they are going to want to try to pick up where they left off ;^)
    But that was back when each pass took maybe 4 hours - these days things can go much quicker, so starting over again is not such a huge tragedy.
    Anyway, good for you - you will get excellent results with GordianKnot!
    We will help you if you have any problems,
    Regards
     
  3. piyota

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    So there is no way to not to produce the abc_movie.avi without sound? It took me 4 hrs to complete everything /movie
    Thank you
     

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