I keep seeing posts about how AVI exports are corrupted and how MP4 renders have the wrong brightness.
Here's what you gotta do.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/D9KpG.png[/img]
This will fix all your rendering problems forever, and the quality is lossless! Sony Vegas, Adobe Premiere, After Effects can import PNG sequences as clips, or you can stitch them together in VirtualDub.
Thank you.
Or just render as .mov and you won't have to use any other programs.
.mp4 with 1.1 gamma correct seems to work just fine for me. I also don't have to edit in vegas unless I really want to.
YMMV however!
This. A thousand times this.
What's better performance-wise (in Vegas/ Premiere), importing image sequences as clips or the same clips as video files (from Vdub)?
I just render as AVI and then use FFMPEG to convert to MPG. No problems at all yet.
[QUOTE=PootisSpencer;36709698]What's better performance-wise (in Vegas/ Premiere), importing image sequences as clips or the same clips as video files (from Vdub)?[/QUOTE]
i personally prefer to assemble the PNG files into [URL="http://umezawa.dyndns.info/archive/utvideo/utvideo-11.1.0-win.exe"]losslessly compressed AVIs[/URL] unless this is really just for a 5 second thing
What's the problem with AVI files? They work fine for me.
[QUOTE=Gran PC;36709933]What's the problem with AVI files? They work fine for me.[/QUOTE]
they corrupt past a certain filesize and are uncompressed, so they're slow, huge and unreliable
I rendered in .mov then went into vegas to final render and it worked fine
This is what I did to create my videos from Source demo files. Virtualdub is free and you can use it to create any kind of compressed/uncompressed video you need. It's an extra step but I think it's worth it for the control over the process.
Also, think of the additional editing you can do to the png files before processing them into video. You can do compositing of various types, such as picture in picture, or adding animated text and whatnot.
[QUOTE=Gran PC;36709933]What's the problem with AVI files? They work fine for me.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36710038]They corrupt past a certain filesize and are uncompressed, so they're slow, huge and unreliable[/QUOTE]
AVI breaking when one uses them as what to export video to... this reminds me of the Source Recorder when one tries to "Startmovie" with AVI, because the filesize gets so large it causes the video to fuck itself up beyond measures (JPG didn't work either, only way then was to use TGA, with raw video, no video and only sound or simply complete silence and only video)
[QUOTE=BenjaminTennison;36710792]AVI breaking when one uses them as what to export video to... this reminds me of the Source Recorder when one tries to "Startmovie" with AVI, because the filesize gets so large it causes the video to fuck itself up beyond measures (JPG didn't work either, only way then was to use TGA, with raw video, no video and only sound or simply complete silence and only video)[/QUOTE]
startmovie moviename h264
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36709739]i personally prefer to assemble the PNG files into [URL="http://umezawa.dyndns.info/archive/utvideo/utvideo-11.1.0-win.exe"]losslessly compressed AVIs[/URL] unless this is really just for a 5 second thing[/QUOTE]
which one is better to use? RGB, RGBA, YUV420 or YUV422?
[QUOTE=Gran PC;36709933]What's the problem with AVI files? They work fine for me.[/QUOTE]
If it's not a container (mkv, mp4, mov, etc) with a H264 encode and is not supposed to be RAW source material then it can go and burn in a fucking fire.
Uncompressed AVI should only be used for storing clips to edit and render out in a better container with a better encode. At best a h264 encode in a .mkv container.
h264 = way smaller filesize with way better or at worst, similar, quality.
[QUOTE=Starscre4M;36777916]which one is better to use? RGB, RGBA, YUV420 or YUV422?[/QUOTE]
RGB
I have to export all my vids as uncompressed avi files just to get the audio to synch up.
[QUOTE=bigbadrick;36778312]I have to export all my vids as uncompressed avi files just to get the audio to synch up.[/QUOTE]
why don't you use a lossless codec
So I export it as a image sequence, then import all the images + sound to VirtualDub but these are the only codecs I have.
[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/25qq3j6.png[/IMG]
I've tried downloading different codecs but none of them show up in here. I tried "uncompressed RGB" and then convert the 6GB Video with a free converter but the result is pretty shitty.
What programs are you using?
Avisynth script feeding into x264 is the best way to go direct from SFM image sequence to a usable video.
Holy crap, this made me realize that I can also render a movie in different chunks this way!
I was already annoyed to wait 12 hours to render my movie at max quality and not be able to properly use my computer during this time...
But this way, I can set it to render 10 second in movie chunks or whatever :>
[QUOTE=Xbox;36781910]So I export it as a image sequence, then import all the images + sound to VirtualDub but these are the only codecs I have.
[IMG]http://i48.tinypic.com/25qq3j6.png[/IMG]
I've tried downloading different codecs but none of them show up in here. I tried "uncompressed RGB" and then convert the 6GB Video with a free converter but the result is pretty shitty.
What programs are you using?[/QUOTE]
keep in mind that most codecs out there are x86 only
so get a x86 version of virtualdub
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;36782381]keep in mind that most codecs out there are x86 only
so get a x86 version of virtualdub[/QUOTE]
Oh I see. Thanks, I'll try that later.
I accidentally rendered this as a PNG sequence but I threw it in to virtualdub and the quality was a lot better than anything else I'd exported:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr8lhNHuLo8&list=UUCzjnvj_UTXAnkhF9XeerTg&index=1&feature=plcp[/media]
(I love Lozeng3r's effect)
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