CCE errors-can not find vaf; CCE encoding failed

[jledhead]

not sure what to do here. I have CCE2.5 SP and am frameserving using virtual dub. I have winXP and 1.3G box.
whenever I do a one pass MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 file CCE goes just fine. But whenever I do any kind of multipass encoding I get errors like above.
can not find vaf file??? Why does it have to have that right in the beginning anyways, I though that was something created during the encoding. so no vaf file and CCE won't even start. I have tried encoding only the vaf file and then trying the multi pass using that file and of course it failed miserably, thats when I get the CCE encoding failed and lots of other numbers.
any one able to do multipass encoding with CCE able to offer some advice :cry: :cry: ?????

[xeromark]

I have had this problem a few times. From my knowledge, a vaf file is what CCE writes initially as to whereas the action or slow parts of the film are located. Its like construction of a graph that will tell the encoder later where to boost the bitrate or lower it.

Basically I just start fresh and get all of my settings banged out. Then If i encode I have no problems. If I ever get that error message I make sure the file doesnt already exist from a previous session, or just go into the settings and rename it to "file2.vaf" so it doesnt keep overwriting the same vaf file.

Let me know if you have resolved anything. I basically have the same system as you.

[shaggy]

What might be happening is that CCE aborts because of some other problem and so the .vaf file is never created, hence the error when CCE looks for it. I say this because I have had some similar problems where I get an error immediately after pressing the encode button in the form of a popup window with an ok button (actual error is "read only 0 bytes, while expecting 8 bytes") when I press the ok button, the second error you mentioned appears because the file wasn't created. I am still trying to find out what the first error means.

Hope this helps.

[jledhead]

no, with my error I load up Vdub and then frameserve to CCE. In CCE I goto options and set to multipass VBR and then hit the advanced button, it then tells me no .vaf file found. well of course not, I have not even started yet and defintly have not created the .vaf file. not sure what is going on. to get it to work I just have to load the settings and don't hit advanced in CCE

[Truman]

Please, please read the manual.
You have to create a .vaf file by doing a one pass encode, either one-pass VBR or CBR before you can use the advanced options.

[jledhead]

sorry, I did read the manual and did see that. but when I do a one pass and create the vaf and then goto advance and change something minor, the encoding fails because it says its changed. I did not change anything major (also found in the manual) so I am not sure.

I have been just setting bitrate and passes and then go and just forget about advance.