3 question about mme and VirtualDub

[matthew]

Hello!

I'd like to ask a question about mme and two about VirtualDub:

1.In mme:I often don't hear the sounds,especially when 2 sound meets each other:D That sound which starts earlier disables every other sound until itself is finished.Why does mme do that? I experienced it very often since I started to use this program.Even in the latest version

2.about VD:I captured a short footage with mme.I usually use DivX codec to compress the avi files I make from the screenshots. But now,VD refuses to do it.It says: The source image format is not acceptable (error code -2). I tried to capture in tga,jpg and png(or pgn?) format as well,but I get the same error message. I don't have any other useful codec than DivX to compress. And an other strange thing I can't understand:My VD shows that I have DivX 6.8.5 version.I uninstalled my DivX codec,and downloaded Divx 7
After installing it,VD said the showed version(I rebooted of corse)
Does anyone know how to fix it? Or maybe recommend a better codec?

3.I can't get my audio synched with my video. I set the same fps in the Frame rate as I captured with,but my audio is always too early.

Thanks in advance!

[bakumatsu]

Don't know anything about the other things, but I could maybe give you advice on codecs and stuff. I would prefer editing in Adobe Premier, it's easy to handle you images and sounds in that program. And I recommend h264 as a codec. You can both get High resolution movies with awesome quality, depending on the quality of the images, plus low resolution movies, still awsome quality.

I hope that helped a little bit
//Baku'

[emir4nt]

yo..

1)cant help you on 1st question, never experienced.

2)using divx codec for converting screenshots to video file is bad idea. (unless you don't want to edit it on other applications) I would recommend either using uncompressed avi or Lagarith Loseless codec - it's pretty much same as uncompressed mode but filesize will be much smaller while quality remains.

3)never experienced, I could only suggest fixing that manually in vegas

[xarian]

You have the latest version of VDub? i dont know exactly whats the problem with sound but for codecs i do...just use x264 or xvid...always compress with a 'lossless' codec such as Huffyuv or uncompressed even from vegas...so only compress with x264 or xvid if its your final movie.
Check News thread "Encoding a Movie" by auri youll find useful tutorials he posted there...without him i wouldnt learn this much about movie making
hope it helpes a bit...
under 3. can you tell how you record your footage?(what you do step by step)

[matthew]

Hy all!

Big big thanks for your useful tips! My 2. and 3. problem seems to be solved by Lagarith lossless codec,even if I can't play back properly those videos I make with it,doesn't matter ,I just convert them to xvid or x264 both of them are great(just takes more time but I don't care:D).
To xarian:
I have VD 1.9.8,I think its the latest version.I downloaded those files that auri posted in that thread you suggested,if I have time,I'll read them.How I made the capturing? In a very simple way:started mme,loaded the demo,went to that point where I wanted to capture,just stopped the demo,wrote in console: /capture tga 30 (picturename) and unpaused the demo. Than I waited until it captured what I wanted,just stopped the demo again,wrote in console:/capture stop,than pushed ESC and closed mme. Thats all.(naturally I have mme_saveWav 1,I captured the sound at the same time).

Many thanks again for all of you!

Matthew

[xarian]

Im glad that you found a solution for your problems...oh and i think you missunderstood me with the question about capturing footage,i ment on encoding process(from screenshots to VD,to any editing program,MeGUI etc...) np ask any time for help

[matthew]

My encoding process usually is:
Open VD,load the first screenshot,in "Video" menu I select frame rate to 30(I usually capture with 30,especially when I'm making test videos),than I select Compression and there,I choose a codec(I used DivX until now,it always worked but now,it doesn't.I tried Lagarith lossless codec-its not bad,but the avi I get isn't smooth enough for me,even if I convert it to xvid,its just not enough good.I downloaded Huffyuv 2.2.0,and it ALWAYS crashes,so the codec must be corrupted,or flawed.MSU lossless codec was just simply bad.All the other codecs I have are useless-Microsoft Video,Intel(R) Video,etc.-Oh,and if I make an uncompressed avi and then encode it with x264,I get NO video So,the only codec I can use is still Lagarith ls codec)
After choosing the codec,I select the audio file if I captured the audio too.I used a resize filter before too,I captured at 1152x864 and resized the images to 1024x768.I saved all these settings to a script file and just loaded it.Than I made the avi file and thats it.
I know its a silly question but whats MeGui? I rad something about it in the encoding tutorial of HS team.It's a kind of encoder/decoder?