ER1CKSON

I have a question about compressing with Xilisoft. I'm pretty new to the montage thang. I use Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 to edit. Seems to me I don't lose quality until I actually host the video. Viewing the finished product on my PC vs. viewing it on the web the difference is obvious. My question is, can I simply compress the entire montage in Xilisoft instead of doing it clip by clip with that program? Seems to me it would be an extremely lengthy process to do it clip by clip.

Thanks, and great tutorial. Kudos for sharing it with everyone.

sickpsycho

Great question, well worded post. Nice to see some actual good responses from newbs every now and then....

Well here's the answer. If you waited till you finished to convert and compress from avi to wmv, --

1. All the .avi clips and the whole actual tage will take up HUGE space, most likely 5 gigs or more.
2. It would take a good 20-30 minutes to convert on a computer with 1 gig of ram or less, and a processor that is decent.
3. Viewing AVI clips on you're computer usually takes more time to load and sometimes skips frames, therefore making it somewhat longer to find clips you want when you want.

All you have to do after you capture a game or a few, at the end of the day, just cut the clips you want, then whenever you're ready, or browsing internet or something that doesn't take up much RAM or anything, open up Xilisoft and drag all your clips in, put the right WMV settings in, and convert.

It takes a huge hit on you're RAM and processor though, so expect everything to go about 1/2 the speed they would, sometimes slower (well for me it's like that).

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ER1CKSON

Thanks for the reply. :-)

You're right about the avi's...those files are huge. I've only got a little over 30+gb's left on my 80gig hd so I'm not sure this method will even be feasible for me. But, I'd like to mess around with it after seeing the quality that is being achieved. HD's are pretty cheap these days anyway.

Let me ask you another question...when you cut the clips up do you discard the rest of the file you recorded? Basically, can you take a couple clips from one game and keep them, then delete the rest of the game. I can't seem to do that in Premiere without losing the clip. If that were possible, it would save a large amount of space. Anyway, thanks again for the reply...I might be pm'ing you sometime for some of that stuff in your sig.

SicktistiK

You missing a few steps. You should check out my quality with an ATI.

EDIT: Ha, what a first post. I don't visit this place enough.

cranz

im a complete noob at this stuff, is there a dumbed down version of how to get this quality? (i have an ati tv wonder pro)

Ex: Do this , go here...

Infamous Base

This is how i capture in VDUB...

Open Virtual Dub
File<Capture AVI<File<Set Capture File
Then press F5 when you want to record and ESC when you want it to stop.

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/vir...procedures.htm
try that link too...may be some stuff on there

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VenomSide

Yeah im just posting this so i can view some vids LOL