CCE and frameserving

[species8514]

I've had a lot of emails asking how i get a vcd/svcd file from CCE using frameserving.

The simple answer is i use Adobe Premiere and the CCE SP Plugin. I have never been able to frameserve from virtualdub or avisynth to CCE 2.5 (2.6 def does not support frameserving)

The Adobe method is far simpler, but there are some things you need to be aware of. As far as i could make out CCE 2.5 does not work with Premiere 6. When i went to export the file, the dialogue box in settings had the framerate set to 1, and was greyed out with no way to change it. When i tried to save the file it kept saying error CCE does not support a frame rate of 1.
CCE 2.6 works fine though, but there is one important thing you have to do before you load your file and encode it. Use the decompress program which comes with AVI2VCD to change the audio to PCM, otherwise you will probably find that even though you can hear the audio in Premiere - when you encode the file you get no audio at all. I assume that CCE doesnt support compressed audio.

Alternativley you can use virtualdub to output a wav from the orginal file and use Tmpg to encode the audio to an mp2 file and then multiplex it with the mpv file. I cant really see though why you would bother with this method.

Lastly as someone kindly told me, in order for Nero to recognise the video stream correctly, you need to use Tmpg to de-multiplex the CCE Mpg and then re-multiplex it again making sure you select the Video cd as the file type.

All this is really worth it as it takes me 2 hours to encode an 80 minute file - as opposed to 8 hours with tmpg.

At the moment i am using the default settings with CCE, but if anyone has some good suggestions on alternative settings i would be interested in hearing them.

[Por_Que2k]

In order to get avisynth and vdub frameserving to work in CCE, you must have video AND audio sorce. the wav source doesnt have to be coresponding to your encode, just any wav. Then frameseving will work with any CCE earlier than 2.62.

NOTE: If you do a simple avisynth script, with just a video source, and audio source and audiodub(video, audio) you can put any size avi into CCE. The file size limitation is a0ed, because you are opening the avs file, instead of the avi, and there is no speed loss, because avisynth is not processing anything.

[VidGuy]

You don't need an audio source to frameserve to CCE - just unclick the audio encoding checkbox in CCE - works fine - I never serve audio to CCE.