CCE started locking

[igornt]

I love it to deal with video and, particularly, with CCE. Everytime I make a new DVD, I have a new problem to solve. This time -- CCE locks or crashes every time at the same place (31% or frame 31,719). I used differerent settings in CCE, but the same result. I actually use CCE 2.25, frameserving with Avisynth from a Premiere project, using BilinearResize (720,480) filter (resizing from a 856x480 widescreen project). From what I have found on different fora, I am planning to address it by:
1) Trying to make changes in the video Premiere project, e.g., swapping avi files inside it where the crash happens or cutting them.
2) defragging the HD where I have all my video;
3) Trying to upgrade to CCE 2.62 and using Avisynth-VFAPI-CCE scheme;
4) Uninstalling various software that I do not use often, like DVD2AVI, etc;
Any other suggestions that other people have, especially those who managed to overcome this problem? Thanks in advance!

[igornt]

I wonder how people get their results... VFAPI Beta 1.04 keeps on telling me that it cannot accept an .avs file, and when I replace an avi file for a avs in an .ecl file, CCE 2.62 keeps on telling me that it is not a avi file. Of course it is not, it is an avs file! But some people claim they do it. How?! Thanks.

[Poplar]

I had same problem when encoding some captured AVIs with CCE 2.50. My guess was that CCE choked on a bad frame, although when I examined that frame with VDub, nothing appeared to be wrong. I just skipped that frame and it seemed to be fine. What difference does it make when you skip one frame out of tens of thousand? It doesn't affect anything.

[Truman]

I wonder how people get their results... VFAPI Beta 1.04 keeps on telling me that it cannot accept an .avs file, and when I replace an avi file for a avs in an .ecl file, CCE 2.62 keeps on telling me that it is not a avi file. Of course it is not, it is an avs file! But some people claim they do it. How?! Thanks.

CCE SP 2.62 does not accept Avisynth scripts. It does not help to edit the .ecl. You may try Link2 or VFAPIconv to wrap the avs.

[mb1]

cce 2.66sp accepts avs again (like 2.50sp)

have a look at
http://members.fortunecity.de/teneriffa/index.htm
(maybe use a popup blocker)

to convert avs to pseudo avi you have to use vfapi-Reader 1.03beta (not 1.04en).
and of course don´t load your files into cce with file - open (that´s only for ecl files). Use instead drag and drop into the white area or rightclick the white area and chose "add".

regards
mb1

[igornt]

Well, I guess I tried everything I listed above. And I solved the problem with Avisynth. However, CCE still stops working at certain point. What I also did was I cut out the frames where the problems seemed to be -- it still continued to lock. I started doing encoding of small parts of my big project -- it still continued to lock somewhwre in the middle of each part. Can it be something with the avisynth script that includes resizing? (I use: BilinearResize(720,480) script). Any other suggestions?
This is the first time I faced such a problem. I do not really want to get back to TMPGEnc, but now I may be forced to do so. Are the results of the newest TMPGEnc versions compatible with CCE?
Thanks, guys.

[igornt]

I did some check. It turned out that it is Premiere 6 that locks. In the middle of encoding, it stops working, closes down, and all programs stop functioning consequently. I have never had any problems with Premiere for over a year before, until now when I first began working with my NTSC project. Do you think this may be because of frameserving with resizing filter? Anyone had any problems wirh Premiere? I wonder if I should try to first resize all my initial avi files (there are over 200 of them in the project!), and then export them into the project. Will the quality be downgraded because of resaving even though I use the same codec (DVRaptor)? Thanks!