CCE 2.50 producing garbled multicolored blocks!

[vcddude]

Hello all,

I must be missing something here, but when I attempt to encode a
DV AVI with CCE 2.5 SP, I just get an MPG video full of multicolored
blocks. The source video is 720x480 DV-AVI and I am trying to encode it to DVD MPEG-2. I am using what I think are the intuitively obvious settings, but every encode produces this mess. I tried to get a screenshot of the MPG but for some reason cannot save it to JPG.

I tried encoding this file on two separate machines with the same result.
I made the file with Vegas Video 4 using it's internal codec. The AVI is tagged with "DVCODEC" compression.

Any idea what I am doing wrong? I don't see any setting to select
DVD MPEG-2 at 72-x480 (other than "DVD-Compliant" setting).

vcddude


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[vcddude]

Weird, the CCE 2.67 SP trial works fine, but I can't get anything to encode properly with CCE 2.50 SP. Strange.

vcddude

[FulciLives]

Weird, the CCE 2.67 SP trial works fine, but I can't get anything to encode properly with CCE 2.50 SP. Strange.

vcddude

How about trying CCE BASIC ... it's only like $68.00 and quality is nearly as good as CCE SP

I say nearly because the only real difference that I am aware of is that CCE SP allows for multiple pass VBR (up to 9 passes I think) whereas CCE BASIC is limited to 2-pass VBR but truth be told most people don't do more than 3-pass with CCE SP so I don't think the difference between doing a 3-pass VBR CCE SP vs a 2-pass VBR CCE Basic will be noticeable.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[vcddude]

I found the problem. CCE 2.50 SP on WinXP doesn't like to convert AVI files dropped into it -- instead it will only encode AVIs that are frameserved via VirtualDub. Whatever. At least it works.

vcddude