Frameserving and Codecs

[James_T_Kirk]

I have tried everything to get frameserving to work between Premiere and Tmpgenc - i have the premiere plugin installed and premiere will start frameserving - I have AVIsynth installed, I have the Avisynth import filter and the AVIsynth patch installed, and TMPGenc has the avs and vdr extension to choose from, but whenever i try and open the AVS file in TMPGenc it says it doesn't support it - also i turned up the prioritys in VAFPI and turned off direct show. still wont open the avs file.

Can someone please tell me how they make an AVS file - maybe im doing that wrong

As far as codecs go - I finally found a Free DV codec on the pinnacle site. and it allows me to open my DV AVI's in TMPGenc, which really defeats the purpose of using frameserving - for me at least. Because the only reason I was trying to frameserve because it was a FREE solution to a DV codec. But thank god for pinnacle for supply a free codec - THAT WORKS GREAT - Im still learning the encoding thing but the mpeg1s I made with it look great - the mpeg2's for some reason wont stay locked into letter box- I was thinking this might have something to do with the aspect ratio tag or something - im not sure thats a question for another forum

My finall question is - which will give me better quality frameserving or the DV codec. Thinking about it I would say they are both the same, But there might be something that I dont know about. thanks

[musicnyman]

honestly, it'll be the same, unless the DV codec drivers are bad, but i can't imagine pinnacle doing this. honestly, i'd rather use the DV codec drivers over the frameserver since creating the frameserver files is just another step unless you're using AVIsynth, but even that, you have to create the files and pointers manually.