Frame Serving

[Tolwyn]

I'm a bit lost as to what this is/does...
Is there a guide that explains why/when I would use it?

[Gazorgan]

Frameserving let's you use VDUB/AVISynth filters and editing without saving a non-compressed AVI out before encoding to MPEG2.

[SLK001]

Many guides have been written about this. Look over on your left (that's <------- this way) under the section called "Guides" (can you believe it? Guides being under the "Guides" section).

[Tommyknocker]

Click here, and choose your poison.

[Tolwyn]

Well, I got this:
https://www.videohelp.com/virtualdubframeserve.htm but I still don't know what to do once it's working.

I guess perhaps a simple example of a possible scenario.

[Tommyknocker]

Okay, you have your birthday party on your camcorder. You want to put in on DVD without too many encodes. Capture it to your computer with Virtual Dub. Now you want to add subtitles, logos, etc, but you also want a DVD, but theres that encoding problem again. If you want it on DVD, and you want Virtaul Dub filters, how do you do both with only one encode? Frameserve. Once you add your filters and such in Virtual Dub, instead of saving in VDub, you frameserve to TMPGEnc to encode it to an MPEG-2 DVD file.

[Tolwyn]

GOT IT.
See? That's why you guys and gals rock.

Frameserve and hope against a computer crash.

[tony123]

frameserving is awesome. it saves alot of time and quality 8)