CCE 2.70 + AviSynth.

[ZiGGY909]

Hello, well finally i learned to script a little and use CCE as my encoder.

However there are a few things im unclear about...

1: FitCD ok to make script's? (any other ways to determine the addborders/lanczos caculations?)

2: The anamorphic option in FitCD... when and why do i need to check this option.

3: The 4:3 & 16:9 option in CCE.
Do I really need to choose 4:3 or 16:9 ??? ... Cause the way i fiquired it was the avs script already know's which way to encode the video... so do i just leave it at 4:3 ?

4: I set the bitrate's to:
MAX = 8500
MIN = 2000
AVG = 3500
in CCE...
but still my dvd author says "the combined bitrate exceeds dvd standards"... Yes i read about this and i was told to just ignore it... later did i find ... about 45mins into watching the movie it just stop's and stutter's...

I then used the CBR encode option with a average bitrate of 3500 and that works a treat with no error in my dvdauthor & play's perfect... However i was hoping to use the VBR option.

Any tips, help and advice on this matter would be highly appreciated. thanks alot.
zig

[handiman876]

to answer #4, you need to uncheck the for dvd box in your template settings.
otherwise it keeps your max bitrate at 9800 and gives the error and most likely the stutter problems.

[ZiGGY909]

to answer #4, you need to uncheck the for dvd box in your template settings.
otherwise it keeps your max bitrate at 9800 and gives the error and most likely the stutter problems.

Thanks for that, will definately try that.

ok question 1,2 & 3 i didnt explain myself properly, lol... so what im trying to ask is:

If my input avi file is 16:9...
Do I set FitCD to "Anamorphic" & choose 16:9 for cce?
Same goes if source is 4:3? (leave the anamorphic option un-checked in fitcd & select 4:3 in CCE.)

I think i have done that though, i thought well if my input is 16:9 then i should choose these options in these applications, cause to me that feels the right thing to do... but maybe their's more of a advanced different view on this...

thanks

[handiman876]

i've never used fitcd. to work on settings you could take a 15 second clip and test it rather quickly. trial and error is sometimes the best method. good luck

[guns1inger]

If you use the anamorphic option in FitCD then yes, you should encode it as 16:9, and author it as 16:9.

That said, if your source is an avi file with 1:1 pixel aspect ratio (standard for divx/xvid etc) and not stretched, then you have letterboxed material. Resizing for 16:9 can, in some cases, reduce the quality because the resizing will in fact be larger than if you encoded for a 4:3 letterboxed disk. If you source material is relative close to DVD res anyway, go 16:9. If it is smaller (horizontal less than res 600) then stick with letterboxed 4:3 - that is, don't use the anamorphic option, and encode 4:3 in CCE. It will still be widescreen on a 4:3 TV, but you might have to zoom it on a widescreen TV.

(Note: these are my opinions only. Try it for yourself to see what makes you happy)

[ZiGGY909]

thanks for helping, yeh i didnt think about doing a short test clip, that would be te best thing to do. Thanks gun, will definately put that into practise, cheers.

Thanks for all the replies!

zig