Cool CCE Tip

[Kwulabear]

Probably everyone knows but for those that don't, last night I was playing around with CCE 2.5 and if you choose multipass and click on the advance tab it brings up a whole bunch of settings. One important one is file size. If you play with the bitrate settings (to the left) it calculates the file size. No more wondering how big the file will be or using a bitrate calculator. You need to remember though the audio file. I use 850mb/99 minute cd-r's and after doing the audio file, which came in at 223mb, I just have cce caculate the file size to around 1.6 gig. Worked like a charm. Try it out.

[Kwulabear]

The size is under stream information.

[jaw2957]

Under the advanced, you can hit the Q scale rdial button and it charts whether there will be any kind of pixelation when it encodes(this is after the vaf file is made). When it is green, its ok, and grey means there might be pixelation. From there you can play around with the bitrates, so you can see the lowest bitrate you can have without losing quality. Its really an awesome feature! I was able to encode the first planet of the apes at 1950 avg bit rate, without any blockiness or quality loss. Thats over 300 minutes on a dvd-r. This dvd was anamorphic widescreen, so there isn't as much film to encode, which is good for haveing ridiculously low bit rates!!

[homerpez]

This is a nice tip, sadly I'm one of those people where clicking on that button crashes the program. However, FitCD seems to find the exact bitrate I need pretty well, +/- 5 kbps.

I wish I could use it for quality purposes, though...

[jaw2957]

It doesn't determine what bitrate to put on a cd(or dvd), it lets you know if the bitrate you are using will cause pixelation, etc. It is a really awesome feature. I would have never suspected the wide range between movies. The planet of the apes, I was mentioning early only need 1900 avg bit rate, but when I was doing a dvd to dvd copy of the usual suspects, it needed at least 3700 avg bit rate! Alot has to do with the anamorphic widescreen of the planet dvd, since half the video has the black lines embedded in it.