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June 14th, 2004, 12:07 AM
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Rep Power: 0   |  Recording quality for full episodes I was wondering how I can reach the person who records and encodes the full episodes because although the file size tends to stay the same, the quality of the videos have gone down DRASTICALLY. perfect example is comparing the "May 16th '04" Top Gear episode with the latest version. I also re-encode the video into smaller, more topic-specific clips (e.g. Alfa 166 ONLY, guests ONLY, challenges ONLY, etc) and I need all the quality I can get...... can anyone help me out? |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:09 AM
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| Lazy Head Dude  Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086
Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237    | As far as I know, Vuk has been using the same settings this whole time pretty much for Top Gear. He does pull them off broadcast TV and not cable or something which does create rare static issues or something, but personally, I notice no difference. And before anyone suggests a better quality video and going to like 696 MB or something, that's not gonna happen. I'm shooting for 300 MB/hour. Anyway, those two episodes you mentioned look the same quality to me...
__________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005 |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:14 AM
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| The Other Half Of This Site  Joined: Dec 8th, 2003 Last Online: December 26th, 2008 Location: UK Posts: 430
Rep Power: 0  | yep, same settings throughout no change what so ever. remember tho i am recording from the analogue source so the quality may be affected by that but not by much
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June 14th, 2004, 12:16 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | really?? they look the same? because I ripped a clip from the may episode..... the source was 300mb also, and AFTER I DOWNSIZED the clip... it's still bigger resolution than 336X192.... which is the quality of the latest episode.... not to mention the re-encode I did has better quality too  |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:17 AM
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| The Other Half Of This Site Joined: Dec 8th, 2003 Last Online: December 26th, 2008 Location: UK Posts: 430
Rep Power: 0 | and BTW DO NOT RE-ENCODE INTO SMALLER BITS BEACUSE U WILL LOOSE QUALITY what u do is use AVI MPEG ASF WMV Splitter and CUT OUT the segments u want, that way NONE of the quality is lost and it is already in the divx format as the original source
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June 14th, 2004, 12:18 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | Ok a little more info... I got the may episode off suprnova... is that why? |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:19 AM
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| Lazy Head Dude Joined: Sep 21st, 2003 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Portland, Oregon Posts: 21,086
Car: Dodge Viper (I wish!) Rep Power: 237 | Quote:
__________________ Fight back against the evil Quiky by +1'ing this post! There is no replacement for displacement. - Wolfgang Bernhard, Chief Operating Officer, Chrysler Group talking about the Dodge Viper SRT-10 ... I ask Herb Helbig, vehicle synthesis manager for SRT and a member of the original Team Viper development group since day one, if they'd ever thought of adding traction control. "It comes with two," he says, pointing at my feet. "Learn to use them." Got it. - Motor Trend on the 2006 Dodge Viper Coupe, November 2005 | |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:20 AM
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| The Other Half Of This Site Joined: Dec 8th, 2003 Last Online: December 26th, 2008 Location: UK Posts: 430
Rep Power: 0 | yep, most TG eps that u see around are about 300mb in size, it does not mean its from the same source
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June 14th, 2004, 12:20 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | oh.... ok..... well I got the link off suprnova but I havn't actually downloaded any episodes off THIS site yet...... can u tell me the resolution of the vids on this site? |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:21 AM
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| The Other Half Of This Site Joined: Dec 8th, 2003 Last Online: December 26th, 2008 Location: UK Posts: 430
Rep Power: 0 | 480x304
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June 14th, 2004, 12:22 AM
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| Joined: Jun 14th, 2004 Last Online: March 25th, 2005 Posts: 15
Rep Power: 0 | WOA........ ok nvm  i'm re-downloadin my episodes then |
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June 14th, 2004, 12:23 AM
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| The Other Half Of This Site Joined: Dec 8th, 2003 Last Online: December 26th, 2008 Location: UK Posts: 430
Rep Power: 0 | ok lol just remember how to cut out segments
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June 14th, 2004, 12:30 AM
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Rep Power: 0 | meh. just tried the splitter..... dun like it... i cud've done the same thing in virtualdub but.... since it starts cutting from keyframes, it sometimes include stuff that I dont want. Oh well, i've confirmed that the eps from this site is the quality i want so there's no prob now |
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June 18th, 2004, 04:21 AM
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| ^ will bore you to death  Joined: Jun 18th, 2004 Last Online: 06:16 AM Location: Under the Counter at McD's Posts: 5,901
Car: 1990 Mazda MX-5 Rep Power: 75  | What settings are u using to encode the video? What app and what codec also. I'm trying to encode some video's for a friend and I can't seem to get near that quality @ 450megs / hour. with divx 5. edit: and I haven't even put audio, this is JUST the video source. Thanx Dustin P.S. I love this site.... My bro and I are building a theatre room to enjoy top gear the way it should be (and i'm not kidding).... |
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