Skyfi Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Yeah does anybody know a software that can convert MP4 to avi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghoulish Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 yea im trying to convert the video and i'm not sure what is the appropriate formatbut iim also struggling to get the approprtiate vids :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanty&Kneesocks Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 [quote name='Skyfire Pegasus' timestamp='1294373304' post='4916982'] Yeah does anybody know a software that can convert MP4 to avi? [/quote] [quote name='Bluster Soldier' timestamp='1294375824' post='4917043'] yea im trying to convert the video and i'm not sure what is the appropriate format but iim also struggling to get the approprtiate vids :/ [/quote] I was gonna cover this later but I'll do a short version here(expect a better written version in my guide.) The best footage to edit is lossless codecs(you don't need to know a lot about this.) generally as an .avi. So what you need is two programs. [url=http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html]Lagarith lossless codec[/url] So you can create the best footage to edit with and cause you the least amount of problems. Scroll down and select 'Lagarith Installer (v1.3.20)' [url=http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/]Virtual Dub[/url] (Doesn't matter what your OS is download x86 version. 32-bit more stable.) Scroll down and select 'Download V1.9.11 (x86 / 32-bit) release build (VirtualDub-1.9.11.zip)'. This will be used to convert your videos to .avi Once both downloaded and installed look for and open up virtual dub. Once virtualdub is open click File>Open Video File. Set "Files of Types" to "All Files" and than search for your footage on your computer. Once that is done we're gonna change 1 thing in the options menu go to video > Compression and select "Lagarith lossless codec". Now before you go and render your file there is one thing I recommend you do. This is going to be a really big file. If you were to render it a 23 minute video would be 90 GB. So that's not what you're gonna do. Using the seeker look through the video for clips you're gonna use, once you find it, go to the beginning of that clip and select the left black bold arrow. (It will be all the way to the right by itself with 2 buttons. A left arrow and a right arrow next to "frames). This will select the beginning of that clip, now go to the end of the clip you want to render and select the right arrow. Now that you have selected your clip go to "File > Save as AVI". Of course if you don't want to do this or your video quality was never good in the first place go back to Video > Compression and leave it as (Uncompressed) and simply render(File > Save as AVI) the whole thing. If this doesn't make sense I will right more indepth and clear guide(WITH PICTURES!) on how to do it in my AMV guide in the tutorial section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Issue with AVI is it has to one of the formats that produces some of the largest file sizes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanty&Kneesocks Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 which is why you need to cut specific clips you want to edit since .avi is so big. However .avi is the best file to edit with, ironic how that works isn't it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Okay. Getting Sony Vegas to even READ the video files is doing my head in now. At first, they were MKV files, which I just didn't even know about. I managed to tear those apart and get some .h264 file or something which I think is a video file, but now I'm having to get some jank called AVS Video Converter to make that into a more readable format. WHY COULDN'T IT JUST HAVE AN OPEN BUTTON QQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Yea MKVs are evil I've never managed to find a decent convert. MP4 to AVI - Automen now that is very good for using for conversion I happen to have the full version and the best settings provided by a very good friend of mine if you're interested (PM) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanty&Kneesocks Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I love editing with .mkv's it's my file of choice lol.(of course I convert them to avi first) and I'm literally on that part at this very moment in the guide so your problems will fade away griffin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Problem I get with MKVs is the version of MKV they're in the last MKV file I had would not convert in anything, luckily I could pick up AVI/MP4 version of the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Okay, that converter didn't work. Gdammit. Making an AMV is hard without any video files that work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 It might be easier to find them from another source, I find torrents very useful to get eps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I suppose I could try, but something about my connection/computer seems to rage at torrents. The site I got them from had around 10 copies of them though, I'll check if the others are .MKV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Ah other Mirrors for them. Good thing about Torrents is they pick up where you left off, so don't require as stable as a connection as a direct/download via other party download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Okay, apparently 5 of the mirrors are .avi files. They don't look all that safe, so I'm going to be scanning them, but with any luck these should be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Well hopefully they should be fine, AVI are easier to find programs compat with than some of the other file types. Have fun amving if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I tired to open the .avi with Vegas. Got some codec error. Help? .-. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuri Posted January 7, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Hey if you guys need any videos converted I could convert them for you/ download a demo for my converter and I'll give you the product code for it. And you can start converting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 I'm downloading this DivX software jank that might help. It claims to have codecs AND converters. I might just give up on this if this one doesn't work .-.<3 I think it works. Now to download 12 more episodes. Then make an AMV. It's a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanty&Kneesocks Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 [quote name='-Griffin' timestamp='1294440065' post='4918279'] I'm downloading this DivX software jank that might help. It claims to have codecs AND converters. I might just give up on this if this one doesn't work .-. <3 I think it works. Now to download 12 more episodes. Then make an AMV. It's a start. [/quote] never edit with DivX/XviD footage. That's probably why it didn't work with vegas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Griffin Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 Why not? .-. Either way, the DivX codes finally let me load this .avi file, so I can start making this over the weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanty&Kneesocks Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 [quote name='-Griffin' timestamp='1294444287' post='4918599'] Why not? .-. Either way, the DivX codes finally let me load this .avi file, so I can start making this over the weekend. [/quote] well congrats but warning DivX can be really annoying to edit with. If you give me 20 minutes I'll tell you how to edit with your .mkv clips if you haven't thrown it out. Guide updated to show you how to work with Virtual dub and AVISynth to use .mkv files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiyo Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 Made after December 30th? Aw, I was gonna enter the one in my sig. Guess I could whip up something else this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cin Posted January 8, 2011 Report Share Posted January 8, 2011 I didn't see that shame. I really need to get Vegas, should ask my friend about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scanty&Kneesocks Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 is this still alive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuri Posted January 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 I hope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.