Transition between titles with DVDFlick

[alhenderson]

Evening All,

I recently burnt a load of AVIs from my camcorder to DVD using DVDFlick and noticed one annoying thing. When the end of a title is reached, the image flickers and shakes for a second or so before the next one starts - viewing the AVIs on the PC doesn't show this, so I assume its something that DVDFlick is doing. I can't see any menu options etc that look like they might control this. Is there anything I can do about it?

Cheers,
Al.

[guns1inger]

It is more likely the way DVDs play. The only way to fix it would be to put a fade out at the end of each clip before you put them into DVD Flick.

[alhenderson]

It is more likely the way DVDs play. The only way to fix it would be to put a fade out at the end of each clip before you put them into DVD Flick.

I was afraid that might be the case How easy is it to put fading in?

Thanks,
Al.

[guns1inger]

The simplest way would be to wrap a small avisynth script around each clip. Something like

AVISource(c:\movies\movie1.avi).FadeIn(60).FadeOut(60)

You would have to change the path in the AVISource() statement to match your movie, and the fade durations to give you what you want.

I would use the Avisynth method because it saves you having to re-encode your video before loading it into DVD Flick.

[alhenderson]

The simplest way would be to wrap a small avisynth script around each clip. Something like

AVISource(c:\movies\movie1.avi).FadeIn(60).FadeOut(60)

You would have to change the path in the AVISource() statement to match your movie, and the fade durations to give you what you want.

I would use the Avisynth method because it saves you having to re-encode your video before loading it into DVD Flick.

Thanks very much for the hint - I will try that out later.

Al.

[alhenderson]

I have a small problem with using AVISynth. I've downloaded it and written a small script (see below), but when I try to load it into DVDFLick it says that the script has no usable video track so can't be loaded. Have I missed something?

The script:

AviSource("F:\Videos\From tape\timestamped\camcorder.09-02-13_15-08.00.avi")
FadeOut(30)

If I load it into Windows Media Player I get the error 'couldn't locate a decompressor for fourcc dvsd' - is this related to my DVDFlick problem?

Thanks,
Al.

[poisondeathray]

You need a DV VFW decoder

You can try cedocida , which is recommended by most folks around here, and it has configurable options for colorspace.

ffdshow has one to if you enable it in the vfw configuration, but it limits you to YV12 only

[alhenderson]

You need a DV VFW decoder

You can try cedocida , which is recommended by most folks around here, and it has configurable options for colorspace.

ffdshow has one to if you enable it in the vfw configuration, but it limits you to YV12 only

Thanks for that, I have installed Cedocida and the AVS file now loads into Media Player, but I only get sound, no video. If I load it into DVDFlick, then it shows a thumbail of the video as the title, so all seems OK, but I don't have access to a DVD player at the moment to check if it works. I was hoping to play the AVS file somewhere so I can tweak my fade out period. The AVS file won't play in VideoLAN either...

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Al.

[poisondeathray]

no video? did you do the full install of avisynth? IIRC there are some plugins that allow it to be played in MPC / directshow players

What about opening .avs file in virtualdub?

[alhenderson]

no video? did you do the full install of avisynth? IIRC there are some plugins that allow it to be played in MPC / directshow players

What about opening .avs file in virtualdub?

A closer look at media player reveals it says 'Error downloading codec' in the status bar very briefly before it starts playing, so presumably my installation of the codec is not quite right. Wasn't much to do, though, I just right clicked on the .inf file and selected 'Install'... It is a full install of AviSynth (or at least I selected all the options, there was no mention of plugins, though).

Al.

[poisondeathray]

avisynth 2.58? use the stable version , not the 2.6 beta

The install option I was referring to "associate avs with media player 6.4 (play)" , but that should be checked by default

What happens if you try MPC or MPCHC or vdub, not WMP11?

If you have ffdshow installed you can enable DV in the vfw configuration (gold icon)

[alhenderson]

If I use MPC, it says I may not have the required codecs or filters installed, and then gives this information:

C:\tmp\video\fadetest.avs::Avisynth video #1

Media Type 0:
--------------------------
Video: YV12 720x576 25.00fps

AM_MEDIA_TYPE:
majortype: MEDIATYPE_Video {73646976-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
subtype: MEDIASUBTYPE_YV12 {32315659-0000-0010-8000-00AA00389B71}
formattype: FORMAT_VideoInfo {05589F80-C356-11CE-BF01-00AA0055595A}
bFixedSizeSamples: 1
bTemporalCompression: 0
lSampleSize: 622080
cbFormat: 88

VIDEOINFOHEADER:
rcSource: (0,0)-(0,0)
rcTarget: (0,0)-(0,0)
dwBitRate: 0
dwBitErrorRate: 0
AvgTimePerFrame: 400000

BITMAPINFOHEADER:
biSize: 40
biWidth: 720
biHeight: 576
biPlanes: 1
biBitCount: 12
biCompression: YV12
biSizeImage: 622080
biXPelsPerMeter: 0
biYPelsPerMeter: 0
biClrUsed: 0
biClrImportant: 0

pbFormat:
0000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
0020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 1a 06 00 00 00 00 00 ........€.......
0030: 28 00 00 00 d0 02 00 00 40 02 00 00 01 00 0c 00 (...Ð...@.......
0040: 59 56 31 32 00 7e 09 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 YV12.~..........
0050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........

VirtualDub plays it quite happily, though, does it have its own codec?

Thanks,
Al.

[alhenderson]

I have successfully burnt a few titles to a DVD tonight using AVISynth to do fadeouts and remove the juddering, looks great! Thanks everyone for all your help on this )

Al.

[guns1inger]

Good to hear