Bik Video Encoding Tutorial Using 'the holy trinity' of tools - By Kitsune1982

[Kitsune1982]

doofoo, i do not know which program you used, but if you want to get the perfect results like i did, you will need to use magix video pro x like i did. all those other freeware apps will compress the video and make it look bad and poor quality. i previewed all my biks before writing this tutorial and they look amazing.
i have tried many other video conversion software programs and they all ruin the video when converting from h264 to mkv. my only advice is to google video magix pro and see if you can find a trial copy or something, because thats the only software i have tried that actually looks flawless. also, i know you use uncompressed avi but what resolution did you use? the videos i tested were 800x432 and 800x600. you can also follow elits tutorial and shrink the videos to 640x360. i wish you all the best with your video encoding. try the software i used and see if it helps you any.

catch you on the flip side.
-Kitsune1982

[doofoo24]

i used the same program...
video is 720p 30fps...
who knows maybe i missing something

[Kitsune1982]

doofoo, there is the problem. whenever you downscale from 1080p/720p regardless of your source, there will be a significant degradation in quality. my suggestion to you would be to re-encode your videos at 480p, such as 800x600
or 640x360. if you output the 720p videos at the original resolution, and use my settings, the higher up you go using those settings is going to cause the video to lose quality. i suggest you re-encode the videos at a smaller resolution such as 800x600 or 640x360, and then use magix vegas 15 to output the videos in full screen mode as per the info i listed at the end of the tutorial. you will still get the full screen movies just without the letterboxing, aka the 'black bars' at the top and bottom. try this and post back and see if it helps any.

-Kitsune1982

[doofoo24]

isn't better to compress to 50% data rate with the same resolution 720p rather than re-encode to lower resolution ?

[Kitsune1982]

No, because compressing it to 50 percent will make it look worse. if you use 320000 bitrate and re-encode it to 480p it will look much better. because if your source video is 5 mb/sec bitrate, 50 percent or 'half' would be 2.5 mb/sec and while that doesnt seem like much, the more you compress it the worse the video will look. take a look at elits tutorial about bik re-encoding and you will see that there is very little difference in quality aside from slightly blurry video when he downscaled from 1080p/720p to 640x360 using similar bitrate that i used. try to re-encode it to a smaller resolution and report back the settings you used and optionally a 'before' and 'after' pic set of how it looked originally then how it looked when you re-encode to 480p.

-Kitsune

[darkwolves]

i just convert to avi lower the resolution and encode back to bik with high bitrate
my videos look nearly identical to the original ones only slightly different

[darkwolves]

this was done in 720X480 resolution
using format factory and radtools
the bitrate is 200000
the original video before the recode 46.2 mb
after re encoding and adding sound back 18.7 mb
i did this one months ago but it was not included in the compression method Q@A
i resized the picture in microsoft paint so it would not flood the post lol

[doofoo24]

ok i tried on different bk with the same method i used in the first it seems..