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Topic: too high quality expectations?

So here's the deal. I took pictures on monkeyjam at 1280 x 960, and exported the avi (uncompressed, im pretty sure), and i got the best quality video of my life. Then I imported it into pinnacle to do some audio editing and whatnot, and when I exported that final movie, there is quality loss. It isn't significant, but i really hate it. I've been looking around and im not quite sure im doing all i can to pump all the quality into the final video. I tried exporting avi, and MPEG-4. I even set the option to uncompressed frames. Is there any way to avoid such loss of quality, or am I expecting to much? Cuz i really want the quality from my monkeyjam exported avi. mini/sad

A reply soon would be nice. mini/wink

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Re: too high quality expectations?

It depends. You probably will lose some quality. Can you give me a before and after of one of your pictures?

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Re: too high quality expectations?

Hmmmm....Maybe it's Pinnacle. Have you tried exporting it in a different video format besides MPEG-4 and avi?

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Re: too high quality expectations?

Wow, thanks for the quick reply guys. Well, I'm uploading some vids to youtube now, but the first one says it will take 71 minutes... is that even right? And no, I haven't tried any other type. They aren't really familiar to me (DivX, to name one) but I will try.

EDIT: So i just tried wmv, and DivX. Out of all (Avi, DivX, wmv, MPEG-4), if in the end i can't get the quality i had right from monkeyjam, i guess DivX could suffice. But still. mini/madhead

Last edited by elrelster (May 14, 2011 (07:38pm))

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Re: too high quality expectations?

71 minutes? That has to be wrong. Give me the lank afterward.

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Re: too high quality expectations?

iono... i think my upload speed sucks.... now it says 61 min with 33% done.

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Re: too high quality expectations?

Before
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeoIoaoZ6tc

After
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxUUcn7LwJE

Its a small difference, but I feel it still matters. (the compressed one uploaded in like 20 seconds. mini/lol )

EDIT: oh, and sorry for the double post. mini/smile

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Re: too high quality expectations?

Sounds like you just need some basic pointers on compression.

The way I usually do things is I'll work with uncompressed video until a film is finished, create a final uncompressed master version (like your 71 minute version), then load that file into Handbrake to create a compressed version. You can play around with a lot of the compression settings there but I find that Handbrake's "regular" option gives you pretty good quality.

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Re: too high quality expectations?

Ahh, very good. So I can set the pinnacle setting to "uncompressed frames" and then compress it in Handbrake, and it should give me better quality than pinnacle's compression choices? I like it. I'll give it a shot, thanks! mini/smile

EDIT: Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Regular avi started at 1.35 GB. Then the uncompressed frames file from pinnacle went down to 787 MB. The final conversion in handbrake took it down to 2.27 MB, with only a shred of quality loss. Thanks a bunch.

Last edited by elrelster (May 15, 2011 (07:09am))

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