Originally posted by: Sober
I intend to re-edit whole movies but i dont want to go to all that trouble and suddenly spot a problem with an avi etc. So editing without converting to avi sounds superb.
Actually, the DGMPGDec/AviSynth route gives you the highest quality video without the need for any video conversion -- it would be exactly equivalent to converting the video to uncompressed AVI (say, using DGMPGDec/VirtualDub) but doesn't require any significant amount of additional hard disk space (the only files you'll create in the process are .D2V and .AVS files, which will be very small compared to the source MPEG files). If you encode your final output with a good MPEG encoder at the right settings, the quality loss should be negligible -- the main drawback being the time cost (high quality MPEG encoding can take forever).
But I need the v1.4 or v1.5 version. I can only download the v2.0 from their site.
I intend to re-edit whole movies but i dont want to go to all that trouble and suddenly spot a problem with an avi etc. So editing without converting to avi sounds superb.
Actually, the DGMPGDec/AviSynth route gives you the highest quality video without the need for any video conversion -- it would be exactly equivalent to converting the video to uncompressed AVI (say, using DGMPGDec/VirtualDub) but doesn't require any significant amount of additional hard disk space (the only files you'll create in the process are .D2V and .AVS files, which will be very small compared to the source MPEG files). If you encode your final output with a good MPEG encoder at the right settings, the quality loss should be negligible -- the main drawback being the time cost (high quality MPEG encoding can take forever).
But I need the v1.4 or v1.5 version. I can only download the v2.0 from their site.
What's the advantage of getting versions 1.4 or 1.5 instead of 2.0? (I've never used the plug-in before so I must admit I know very little about it, except that it allows "direct stream copy" MPEG output.)