You_Too said:

SS4DarthPayne said:

CapableMetal said:

Thanks for clarifying that. h264 can be a real pest to edit because it has so much lag, probably due to its complexity, its generally a good idea to convert to a 'friendly' format first; Lagarith lossless AVI's are good because they're nice and quick. ;)

Related to this, doesn't converting to something lossless lead to HUGE file sizes? Or way back when I was trying to do such a thing, was I doing it wrong? Sorry I'm pretty new at all this

It does. That's why I chose mpeg2. I only needed to see the frame differences, and a lossless file of ANH 2004 SE in DVD resolution would be about 14gb or something.

It does lead to huge file sizes but the result you get is generally faster and more compatible than MPEG2 (which is very compatible itself, but slower to edit with, at least on all of my systems). I have 6.5TB of storage so space is admittedly not much of an issue. It all depends on what you're trying to do, if you're looking at frame differences then MPEG2 is a perfectly acceptable choice. I've done similar things with h264 encoded videos on occasion, its just slow at seeking frames. For capturing or editing, however, I never stray from lossless codecs; files aren't as big as uncompressed AVI, and you aren't compressing to a lossy format (such as capturing straight to MPEG2) before filtering/editing.