Cinema Craft Encoders issue

[james636]

I'll try to explain myself were I could be understood. I would normally use TMPGENC to convert my avi files to MPEG2 with a resolution of 720x480 or 704x480 and then use Ulead DVD Movie factory2 to create and burn the dvd. The burning proccess would be: Multiplexing the video, creating the dvd files and then burning. Now when I would use CCE to create the mpeg2 files and load them into dvd movie factory, it first has to convert the files. The only time that I would have the same problem after using TMPGENC is when I would use a resolution other than 720x480, 704x480, 352x480, and 352x240. unLike TMPGENC, CCE does not have any resolution options to choose from. I thought that it may be the script that I used (I use moviestacker to create scripts) to cause CCE not to convert the files with my perfered resolution. But I loaded the same script into TMPGENC and and it created a mpeg2 that didn't need to be converted by dvd movie factory.
Basically what I'm asking is, How can I avoid having to convert the mpeg2 files that were encoded by CCE?
Sorry for the long post, but can someone help me out here

[tsantsa]

Jeez, you posted this in the NOOB section?

You sound like you know what you doing!

Most noobs ask thing like: "What's an aspect ratio?" or "How do I fit 6 dvds on one dvdr?"

[duhmez]

You must feed proper sized content into cce, period. It wont resize. When you use tmpgenc, it has the capability to resize for you.

May I suggest frameserving from virtualdubmod using it's resizing filter, or even better, avisynth frameserving.
Or if that's too confusing a big fat nasty huffyuv resized midway step.

[TTE]

I had the same problem.....it turned out that the problem was not with the video from CCE but with the audio format, which MovieFactory does not consider to be DVD compliant. I changed the audio format in CCE to 384Kbits/s and 48000Hz (the same as I was using with TMPEG) and MovieFactory accepted it without re-encoding.
There is another issue with CCE with regards to using VBR, which is mentioned on the Cinema Craft website...basically the file header makes the file appear to be non-compliant. I haven't found out how to make MovieFactory accept a non-compliant file without re-encoding, so I use TMPG DVD author for those files.
Having been a long time TMPGEnc fan, I must admit that I like the speed of the Cinema Craft Encoder, and I can't really see much quality difference compared to TMPGEnc.