DivX 223.9 FPS -> AVI for editing?

rdenny · Post by **rdenny** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:35 pm

I want to re-edit a 45 min DivX video that was encoded at 23.92? FPS. I tried to convert it to uncompressed AVI, but the conversion started then said it was going to take 10 hours! Trying to put it onto the timeline directly was a loser too because it was extremely slow.

How Can I roll that video out into flat/uncompressed AVI so i can edit and recompress it for DVD? Well, without waiting a day

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GeorgeW · Post by **GeorgeW** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 2:47 pm

I would search for tools specifically designed to handle that type of conversion at videohelp.com

Regards,
George

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:20 pm

How would you go about creating the original coffee beans from a jar of Nescafe?

Your DivX is highly compressed and has lost most of it's original detail in the compression. Whilst it still looks good as it is now, doing any further manipulation with it is only going to deteriorate it. You cannot expect to uncompress a file from a lossy compression to the original quality. That's why the compression is called "Lossy". DivX is a compression used for video streaming from/to the web. There are DVD players appearing slowly which can play this format. It is a much smaller file size per hour than mpeg2 (DVD).

In order to burn DivX to DVD to play on a normal DVD player, you need to change the frame size (where do you take the missing pixels from?), increase its frame rate (where do you take the extra frames from without changing the speed of the clip?) and convert it all to a DVD compliant mpeg2 file which means recoding with another lossy compression.

rdenny · Post by **rdenny** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:30 pm

Yeah, I know the DivX is lossy compressed. What I was hoping to do is to create a vanilla AVI file that contains the frames as they would/will display on the screen, verbatim. In other words, simply the output of the DivX decoder. I know this won't be equal to the original pre-DivX quality... Then for the frame conversion, 3:2 inverse pulldown? The inverse of the "film effect" pulldown from ~30 to ~24? Finally, I know that re-compressing to MPEG for DVD willl probably further deteriorate the quality.. too bad... it's all I have to work with. But it's a **** of a lot better than nothing

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THoff · Post by **THoff** » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:49 pm

Try MediaCoder for the conversion from DivX to uncompressed AVI -- it should do that quickly and easily.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 12:36 am

Another free converter is Super

rdenny · Post by **rdenny** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:17 am

Thanks very much, guys! I have d/l'ed the two packages and will check 'em out. I really appreciate the fast and helpful info!!!!!