Virtual Dub Help!

[Veggeto Ws]

I need a little help on Virtual Dub. When I cut and save a video file in avi. It always comes out a huge file like 500mb or 1gb. Can you show me how you do it on the clips with DBA?

[Veggie]

I need a little help on Virtual Dub. When I cut and save a video file in avi. It always comes out a huge file like 500mb or 1gb. Can you show me how you do it on the clips with DBA?

Before you save the video avi, you have to compress it using one of the codecs you have previously installed on your PC..
You have to select "video" on the top menu of Virtual Dub, then Full Processing Mode and Compression.
A new smaller window opens (like you can see in the following screenshot) and here you have to select the codec (I usually use DivX 5.2.1) you want among all appearing in the list. If you don't make this the file avi will be uncompressed and very big size!

[Majin_Steve87]

i'd suggest you to better use Xvid it has a better compression and a better file size for its quality though....

[Veggie]

i'd suggest you to better use Xvid it has a better compression and a better file size for its quality though....

XviD is in the list of the codecs I've got but it doesn't appear in the screenshot cause it's at the bottom in the alphabetical order.
Maybe Xvid is better than DivX but I don't know well the best setting so I prefer not to use it

[McDado]

and don't forget to compress audio... Audio->Full Processing Mode, Audio->Conversion (beh sure to set 16bit and High Quality when you comprime AC3 streams) and then Audio->Compression and set your preferred codec (lame is suggested)

[Veggie]

Thanks McDado for your note: really most American people forget to compress the audio and their AMVs come out larger about 15-20 MB

[Veggeto Ws]

lol I see what you mean, but I ain't gonna have audio in it. They're gonna be HQ no audio clips.

EDIT:OK I tried it and I even put "Insane Quality" do I need to download Xvid. Look heres the results.

[McDado]

for judging the results, you have to put the original frame for comparing...

[Majin_Steve87]

for judging the results, you have to put the original frame for comparing...

agreed
If you want us to check if your video looks fine or not you can't just make a lil screenshot of it!Even though the screenshot looks even worse because you compress a already compressed video sceen to another format which is JPEG for you at the moment so it looks like 2 times as bad as normal most likely

[Veggeto Ws]

OK here's the terrible result.
Click here to watch Video-Clip9

[Fuze]

It isnt that bad lol...how big is the file?

[Veggeto Ws]

1.60 mb dont want any pixles

[Fuze]

umm ( I dont know much about compression) maybe try making it a little bigger....