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Clement Saggers · 05-24-2008, 02:56 PM

Hi, I'm having a little trouble with xvid. Lots of people have said it's great, even better than DVD quality. But I can't get good quality unless I use really high bitrates (>5000kps!) I've seen things that other people do at simular resolutions to what I use, and they look really good even tho there only using about 900kps. If I use a bitrate like that it just looks "watery", with more "artifacts".

I'm using Ulead Video studio 10 to record and edit, and when I export I use the ffdshow encoder, along with the xvid codec. Could someone out there tell me the ideal xvid settings for the frame size and rate I use (720x576 at 25 fps), without going into all that quantization and I frame and P frame jazz? (which I don't understand at all). Ideally I'm trying to do a 20 - 25 minute video in under 150 megs without too much loss.

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Clement Saggers Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Newmarket, England Posts: 43 OS: Windows XP SP2, Windows XP64 & Windows 2000	What are the best xvid settings to use Hi, I'm having a little trouble with xvid. Lots of people have said it's great, even better than DVD quality. But I can't get good quality unless I use really high bitrates (>5000kps!) I've seen things that other people do at simular resolutions to what I use, and they look really good even tho there only using about 900kps. If I use a bitrate like that it just looks "watery", with more "artifacts". I'm using Ulead Video studio 10 to record and edit, and when I export I use the ffdshow encoder, along with the xvid codec. Could someone out there tell me the ideal xvid settings for the frame size and rate I use (720x576 at 25 fps), without going into all that quantization and I frame and P frame jazz? (which I don't understand at all). Ideally I'm trying to do a 20 - 25 minute video in under 150 megs without too much loss.