LO Editor - Best settings for output.

[504MrWolf]

Im currently making a LO movie but im getting jerky 4mins/2gig files for my trouble.

 

Please can i get some advice on the LO editor and how to get good results that i can use in Vegas.

 

PS i dont want FRAPS :P :D

[firesoldier845]

Hey MrWolf, first off thanks for the great servers for us to play on.

 

As for your question I am pretty sure that windows won't play AVI files that are greater than 2 gbs. so that is why you are having problems.

 

Now this is debatable like F-15C vs SU-27B, but I like the xvid codec that comes with LockON. The quality is outstanding. So select xvid and set your quality to 100%. Don't use uncompressed video or the file sizes will be too large.

 

This depends also on your resolution but wide screen 1280X720 (16:9) which is like high definition quality 30 fps I'm getting roughly about 2 minutes of video at around 450-500 megs compressed with xvid. So to stay under that 2 gb limit you would need to keep all the rendered material under 8 minutes or around there. If your edited track file is longer than 8 minutes then you might want to split it up and render different parts. You can do that also with the times up in the right upper corner of screen - just change the start end times to the areas of the video you want and break it up into different movies.

 

Naturally if your rendering video at a lower resolution or frame rate you can fit more video per mb than the numbers I quoted above.

 

It's also debatable which video codec is best, I like xvid but others may disagree.

[firesoldier845]

Oh and I almost forgot, I did have some major video rendering problems that all of a sudden creeped up in my Lock On. I couldn't figure out why SO I REINSTALLED LockON and xvid and now my videos are rendering perfect again.

[some1]

If you're using Vegas, in LO editor select "numbered screenshots" instead of specifying codec.

 

Each frame will be saved as jpg.

 

Then in Vegas select File->Import->Media, choose first frame and select "Open still-image sequence".

[Ardillita]

From the avi creastor in FC, I select divx codec , and I get excellent 3 minutes compressed in 20 MB aprox