Why frameserve?

[magnus]

I understand how to frameserve and most of the commands, but I'm still a little lost on the benefits. I know you can make encoders and editors accept different formats and save some encoding steps. My question is whether there is a benefit of editing an avi in frameserving(i.e. reducing resolution, etc) over just allowing the encoder to resize, change framerate, etc. during one encoding. I was told if you wanted to increase resolution it was better to raise it in frameserving then encode at desired res. This is one time where I see it is better to edit beforehand in fserving, but what about everything else. It just seems I am doing in fserving exactly what the encoder is about to do. If anyone can help me understand this a little more it will be greatly appreciated.

[Truman]

VirtualDub and Avisynth come with much more filters than any MPEG encoder. Let's say you have homemade video. Then you can cut out unwanted scenes, add effects or whatever and save a new avi. Or you can frameserve to the MPEG encoder directly. It's your choice.

[Craig Tucker]

Frameserving also allows you to make one large mpg file from a very large segmented AVI in vdub (only limited by your disc space). If you have a fat 32 file system with a 4gig limit without frameserving you would have to encode each AVI file (less than 4 gigs) seperately to mpg and then splice the mpegs together, this can result in audio problems at the join.

Craig