Cinema Craft Encoder: Refuses to encode captured MiniDV

[ToeCutter]

I've been playing with Cinema Craft Encoder recently in hopes of using it to encode my MiniDV video before burning some DVDs. I have, however, been completely unbale to encode any MiniDV video. I've tried several different capture tools (Vegas Video 3.0, DVIO and even MS Movie Maker) all with tha same result: CCE simply dies a few seconds after clicking the Encode button, leaving a 0 byte file. I've checked the input file requirements for CCE, and the DV fits the bill. The logfile gives no indication why CCE spit up.

I have successfully encoded some downloaded AVIs with no problems. This puppy is FAST compared to TMPGEnc and I'm pretty impressed with its quality.

BTW, I'm capturing from a JVC GR-DVP7U MiniDV camera.

Any suggestions?

[ToeCutter]

Recent developments:

1. I was using CCE 2.64. After some more reading at doom9's, it seems there's a bug in 2.64 that affects Athlon-based PCs. I'm using a 1.4 Athlon. I've since downgraded to version 2.5.

2. Now I'm getting a message stating that CCE can't find an appropriate video codec for "dvsd". Strange, because can view the AVIs just fine with WMP.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated....