[Tutorial] Encoding in X264 | HD
[Update - 7/16/2010] GUI can be pronounced as “gooey” or GUI (Source: dictionary.reference.com despite what many people think. Any further comments about the pronunciation of this term will result in comments being deleted. Again, I would like to urge all viewers to think carefully before posting any comment and to limit their comments to constructive ones that add to the conversation and to the tutorial. I heavily moderate this video and its associated comments. [Update - 1/08/2010] If you need to grab a 64-bit version of the Lagarith Lossless Video Codec, an alternative to Huffy, you can get it here: lags.leetcode.net [Update - 12/19/2009] It seems that you can’t get MeGUI through x264.nl anymore. You’ll need to pick it up directly from sourceforge: sourceforge.net Commenting: Feel free to post questions and suggestions in a friendly manner. Failing to do so will get your comment removed. First and Foremost: My apologies for the black bars on the side of the video. My native screen resolution is 1680×1050 16:10 and youtube displays videos at 16:9. I didn’t want to change the aspect ratio as I feel that would make the video look a bit unnatural – hence the black bars. This is just a quick tutorial, for starters, on how to encode in X264 using MeGUI. This tutorial isn’t meant for those who already know what they’re doing, but you are all welcome to leave comments and criticisms regarding my video. I certainly hope this video comes in handy for those who are completely …
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@HDRoppiN A “codec” stands for “compression/decompression” which a compressed video file contains. Some are better than others at compressing video to a small file size while keeping descent quality of the video. All compressed video losses some image quality, but the higher the bit rate the better. Uncompressed video files offer the original quality of the video and is best by far, but causes the video file to be extremely huge. Uncompressed video = no codec.
@helios2k6 The MeGUI 3.5 that i have, doesn’t let me update. Everytime I try to update i get a fatal error and the program automatically closes itself and I have AviSynth 2.5 installed. Whats the problem?
whats the meaning with “codec”? lol i dont understand
@jt27x3 you can never stop people from downloading and re uploading your videos, all you can do is watermark them with your name/channel.
@x0fiz You cannot deem raw, uncompressed video as “lossy” or “lossless”. Lossy and lossless describe compression algorithms and methods. So if you are not compressing your video stream, you don’t have to worry about the quality of the video.
@helios2k6 ignore my other comment, but uncrompressed isnt a lossless video codec?
@x0fiz You can use whatever you want. Huffy is an lossless compression format. You can also use Lagarith Lossless Video Codec.
dude, why you use huffy codec, my render is uncompressed + wav on megui
Hello. I stumbled across your video tutorial here because I have had trouble with fellow youtubers “stealing” my videos and reposting them as their own. What do I need to know to prevent this from happening, and is this a practice you condone? Respectfully, jt27x3. Thanks.
thnx dude for the tut,i didnt try it yet but i will later
@combatsucksatm The uses for compressing video using x264 are tremendous. The whole point of using the x264 library is to take a very large video file and compress it without losing that much quality. An example of the usefulness of x264: Youtube uses the x264 library to compress all of its videos.
I’m just wondering whats the point in encoding into this? Is it just to reduce the file size or is it just to get it looking better?
@helios2k6 Yeah, and thankfully it did. lol
@Doofunator That’s so strange. I’ve only ever had issue playing back uncompressed video footage when I open it up in Media Player Classic.
Weird…Well, at least it muxed properly.
@helios2k6 I used both Vegas and AAE, it plays back choppy, but when i mux it to .mkv its fine. so i guess it isn’t much of a big deal. just thought it was odd, and my initial footage is 1920×1080 .avi, project settings are just matched to the original footage both size and (60) FPS. And i for MeGUI i used x264 scratchpad, put quality to 26 and left everything else alone. i was just curious as why it would do it when rendered into lossless?
@Doofunator I’ve never had that happen before. Are you rendering it in Sony Vegas? What are your project settings? What settings did you use to encode the video? What are the stats of your principle video?
@helios2k6 I was wondering, why is it that when i render through lagarith lossless, that it does not render the complete frames? for example it would look like maybe 4 frames through out a 6 second clip.
Also. how do you know what fps your video is recorded in?
After i mux the video i have no audio/video problems. The quality is good. But when i upload it to youtube it has horrible quality and the video starts lagging behind the audio.
Any idea whats up?
@ImBlakez I would have to know What settings are you using to encode your video? If you’re using any type of 2pass profile in MeGUI, then you should try increasing the bitrate.
hey my videos are always really pixelated and blurry when there is movement. Do you know how to fix that?
this is probably the most informative and clarifying video about this subject i could find. Thumbs up. btw, if i want to remove blocks (that sometimes apear in darker places of the vid) i just have to increase the bitrate?
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@Fleshshredder Agreed
For the audio I would rather take LAME MP3 or AC3
and I would NOT use “Normalize Peaks”. It just puts up the frequency to the max found amplitude. Thats shit, because it kills first the dynamic and 2nd it doesnt make the volume equal with different tracks as many peoples false think.