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Dark Soldier
11-18-2005, 11:35 AM
my boss seems to think that i can re-edit all their 3d animations with out having to waste lots time re-rendering 25, 3 minute animations. the current animations r encoded with Divx and as far as i know u can not edit a vid with out having to recompress after. maybe i'm wrong, does anyone know of any cheap/free software that can edit without recompressing?
tsupka
11-18-2005, 07:16 PM
try VirtualDub
but I not shure......
marchermann
11-19-2005, 08:42 PM
Download the fully functional 30-trial-version of Sony Vegas and try to finish the job within a month. Vegas will work with the Divx without recompressing it and hen you can export to an uncompressed format like Quicktime-PNG to keep the quality as good as possible.

Marc
ZaKKoS
11-19-2005, 09:35 PM
Download the fully functional 30-trial-version of Sony Vegas and try to finish the job within a month. Vegas will work with the Divx without recompressing it and hen you can export to an uncompressed format like Quicktime-PNG to keep the quality as good as possible.

Marc

I think that he doesn't want to export to an uncompressed format.
If I've understood right what you want to do i'm quite sure that i'm safe if I say that it is impossible. You always have to re-render what you've done because the compression writes the file with its algorithms, it's not a simple sequence of pixels that you can cut and paste. Sorry. :shrug:
marchermann
11-21-2005, 12:53 AM
Well, you cannot go back from DivX-compressed to uncompressed, freshly rendered quality, if that's what you want. But (with Sony Vegas, for example) you can edit the DivX footage into new clips without introducing new compression artifacts if you export the remixes into an uncompressed format, if *that* is what you want. In any case, a good lesson is to always keep the uncompressed rendered image sequences.

Marc
Dervish
11-28-2005, 03:36 PM
he talkin about encoding, asking if he can just cut all his footage together without reencoding it, wich aint possible though, theoretically, the encoding could be vastly speed up if all your footage is the encoded with the same codec, thats theoretically though, since noone has written such useless software, 25x3min = 75minutes, that encodes easily overnight on most newer mashines.

for editing the stuff itself ya should use premiere, its pretty fast
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