need tmpgenc expert for this...

[average joe]

I have a problem with black screen at the end of a freshly-made vcd frame served from Premiere thru Avisynth into TMPGENC...the only problem is that the last frame is black, causing me a lot of annoyances...

I figured out that Avisynth is SERVING 90 frames for a 3 second snippet, but TMPGENC is SEEING it as 91 frames, thus causing my last frame 'black'...

can anyone tell me how to re-confingure TMPGENC to see 90 frames exactly and not 91, or is it an Avisynth problem

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Thanks.

[Truman]

setting > advanced > source range. Set start and end frame manually.

[average joe]

Truman, looks like it works! (like I need to tell you that, you all ready knew it would...)

Thanks...

two quick questions though as related...

Does TMPGENC lock up a lot when trying to execute from a desktop icon right after starting frameserve? 6 times out of 10 I get the small "exporting" window, it says, 'please wait' but then I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL because TMPGENC gets stuck, and never executes..it usually takes two or three times for it to 'catch' the framserve..normal?

Second, VCD bitrate question...TMPGENC, except for the encoding time, is there a big difference b/w say 1400/sec 2passVBR and automaticVBR set at say 80?
What would you say is the equivalent 'average bitrate' in 2pass when weighed against the 'quality' slider in automaticVBR..I have been doing 1600 2pass for 6minute files at 352240, looks great, but it takes almost double the AutoVBR encode time...would you say that 100 AutoVBR quality is almost 2000/sec? Shocan is helpful, but recommends it for MPEG2.

OR....in your expert opinion, what YOU use in TMPGENC. I am looking for file size of 5-6 minutes coming out about 100-110Meg, 160audio.

Thanks Truman, back to the woodshed for me and fix a gigaload of VCDs that I did not bother to test burn because of those pesky 'black' frames...