i have many home videos that are in AVI right now. I need a Losseless video codec that can take a resolution of 720x404. So far i have tried ensharpen, lagarith, huffyuv, xvid Mpeg 4, and MSU. All have been worse quality then the original AVI. I need some advise on a quality codec. Don't forget i am converting them to a widescreen resolution. Any info would be great. Thanks
No, sorry. If you want to reduce size you lose quality. You can use the best ones (DivX and Xvid), use multipass encoding and the performance which assure hightst quality ('Slow'), but if you want to reduce a 9 GB VOB set into a 700 MB AVI you lose quality. You can either reduce its resolution (e.g. encode a 320x240/252 MPEG-1 and compress it with the DivX 'Portable Profile' set at the maximum birate (768 kbps) or 'try' an intermediate bitrare (700-800 kbps) and pray. On movies there's no a compresssor like RAR, ACE, ZIP, which keep 100% of the file compressing (depending on the type: TXT you the best rate; for movies, oh surprise! you get almost 0). Read our guides at http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ .
No you might have misunderstood my question. I am not trying to reduce a 9gig movie to 700mb. I have an avi which i am trying to crop to 720x404 resolution to get it widescreen. The codecs that my video editor comes with won't do that resolution i need. I need a quality codec that will accept my new resolution and make me a new Avi. From the codecs that i have used so far the new avi is 4 times bigger. i need a codec that will accept 720x404 resolution, be lossless, and take no more the twice the originals AVI space.
If you have enough Disk Space you could just go to Uncompressed AVI which is Totally Lossless... Why don"t you just Crop your Video while you are encodeing it to Mpeg-2/DVD?? That would be the easiest and Fastest and best quality way cuz you won"t have to waste all that Time Rendering to a New AVI file when Cropping and then encodeing the Cropped File to DVD.... Most Good Quality Encoders have a Crop Feature.....
