[Kdenlive-devel] big files = no fun

[Dan Dennedy]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz at gmail.com> wrote:
> * Slavko Glamočanin -- Tuesday 08 December 2009:
>> Personally i would use MJPEG with about 95% encoding quality, depends on
>> your editing style. Even DV can be ok, or Mpeg video as you seem to have a
>> DVD source.
>>
>> Maybe something like this should work:  ffmpeg -i VTS_01_$i.VOB -f mpg
>> -sameq -y $i.avi
>
> There was no "mpg", but an "mjpeg". I tried that, but only got colored
> pixelized noise. Looks like I'm not ready for video editing yet. I'll
> try more later. Thanks so far, anyway.

Well, you are getting a lot of advice; let me offer more. The
suggestion to use DV is probably the best suggestion so far because it
is only 5:1 slightly lossy, very well understood, and very
interoperable (no generic container required). Moreover, the ffmpeg
-target option supports it to make it very easy:

ffmpeg -i in.vob -target pal-dv out.dv

Alternatively, if you do not want any further loss of quality and are
willing to make large files (2:1 compression over uncompressed), try
the "Lossless Matroska" preset I added to Kdenlive's Transcode.
Right-click the clip in the Project Tree, and choose it.

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