Why can't divX encode in HD?

[Red Squirrel]

I'm trying to render a video in 1280 x 720 with divX but it errors out every time. If I change the resolution to like 480 x 360 it works, but I want to go higher.

I need to get decent quality and a small file size. (under 1GB per 10 minutes)

 

[Fardringle]

What is the error message?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just said "an error occured" Using cinipak codec by radius and it works ok now. Just not sure if youtube takes that format...

 

[corkyg]

What is the resolution of your source material? You can't make it more than it starts with. Unless the source is HD, forget it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Really? Why would it matter, doesn't the video editing program just tell it to render whatever it came up with pixel by pixel? why would the source matter? Obviously if I use a small image/movie and resize it I'll lose quality, but I can't see why divX would even know the original source size.

In the case of this video I'm just using pngs that are 1280 x 720 as it's not an actual movie, more or less of a fancy slide show with some effects.

 

[corkyg]

It really is very simple. You cannot create more pixels than there are in the source image. DivX doesn't have to kn ow anything. What is, is.