MEGui errors,

[krohm]

went through raigen's tutorial on youtube and although it seemed straight forward i still have had problems. for starters i dont have the x264 2 pass insane encoding option nor any of the other options presented when first installing megui, when running through i get an audio false error in the avs script. i selected x264 avchd and nero acc multichannel 256 for audio so i dont know what the problem is. ive tried with multiple videos, somehow i got one to work but even checking the avs script of that it sais audio false in the script.

just checked the megui log it sais no compatible acm codec to decode..

also is there a way once i get this working to batch convert like 100's of videos rather then individually having to go through each video, or i just have to load each video and add it to a worker..

[krohm]

have i not put enough information for people to get a reply on why this isnt working.. sais no compatible acm codec.. sais audio false when creating the script in the script preview section.. wtf

[poisondeathray]

use mediainfo on the source video, identify the codec, install the codec

if you want to do batch conversion for multiple videos in a folder, it would be better to use command line and .bat file
http://doom10.org/index.php?topic=212.0

[krohm]

just sais ac3, 2 channel and 1 channel for the two vids trying to convert. ill check out the batch encoding see if that can help

[poisondeathray]

just sais ac3, 2 channel and 1 channel for the two vids trying to convert

install ac3filter , or enable ac3 in ffdshow audio configuration

[krohm]

i ran through it again after installing ac3filter and it outputted the file with audio but the file size and data rate of the video have changed somewhat considerably. the data rate in mediainfo is under 2mb as opposed to 2.4 in the original and it gives an output of 615mb as opposed to the 700mb of the original... is this losing quality, the avs script after ive loaded the audio and ran it doesnt seem complete, sais the audio is false and no other settings of note are in there..

[poisondeathray]

i ran through it again after installing ac3filter and it outputted the file with audio but the file size and data rate of the video have changed somewhat considerably. the data rate in mediainfo is under 2mb as opposed to 2.4 in the original and it gives an output of 615mb as opposed to the 700mb of the original... is this losing quality, the avs script after ive loaded the audio and ran it doesnt seem complete, sais the audio is false and no other settings of note are in there..

Yes you lose quality if you re-encoding using a lossy format

If you want the same quality, then don't convert

[krohm]

is there a way to keep the quality but still change the container so that im able to edit more easily before finally compiling the edits in premiere, even if there is a slight loss, is there a way to set the data rate so that there is minimal loss,?

and then if i output one last time after compiling in premiere it will lose quality again.. how can i reduce the bottleneck,

[poisondeathray]

container isn't the issue, highly compressed h.264 video is

either get premiere pro cs5 with cuda support (if you have a compatible gfx card) , to offload decoding to the GPU, or a faster system

or you can use a lossless format like ut video codec or huffyuv ; ut is the fastest in terms of lossless codecs if you have it setup properly

high bitrate I-frame only mpeg2 will be minimally lossy
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/support/windows/vfw_software_codecs/downloads/softwares/version1.0/

or something like cineform