Can I frameserve from V/Dub to CCE

[afish]

I can frameserve from Premiere to TMPGEnc with Avisynth and (with plug-in) from Premiere to CCE but is it possible to frameserve from Virtual Dub to CCE. I do it straight from Virtual Dub to TMPGEnc all the time but I thought I'd like to try the quality difference (if any) to CCE. Also it might speed things up a bit

Thanks

[offline]

Yes, but only for a single pass. Use avisynth for speed and where
you want to multipass (CEE excels at multipass)

[banjazzer]

Yes, but only for a single pass.

Can you elaborate on this? I thought the number of passes would be chosen in CCE, as it is when I save a project in TMPG, process it with VFAPIConv and load into CCE.

Also, how do you frameserve to CCE with Virtualdub? I don't seem to be able to convert or load the .vdr file I get when frameserving.

[marvel2020]

Offline wrote....Yes, but only for a single pass

I have to disagree with ya on this one, but i'ved used the vbr multipass, while frame serving from VDUB to CCE.

[banjazzer]

Can you tell me how to do it, then?

[marvel2020]

OK here we go

First of all, install the Handler using the AUXsetup.exe that come's with Vdub, also if needed you might have to install the aviproxy as well.

OK once you done that,

"i forgot to mention that you have to have you audio extracted from you AVI/DIX as a seperate wav again use VDUB for this".

Startup VDUB load you AVI/DIVX into VDUB using the file / open video file, once done goto the video TAB and select filters, click the add button on the right and scroll down to the resize filter. double click on it and you will be presented with the width and height window, enter you required ratio here, remember that if your making a SVCD your ratio will have to be...

480x480..... NTSC
480x576..... PAL

Once you have entered your ratio. in the filter mode window select PRECISE BICUBIC (A=100), then Check the expand frame and letterbox option then click OK.

Now click on the cropping button and use the X1,X2 Y1, Y2 offset buttons to remove any black borders that you have on the AVI/DIVX, once done just click OK. then ok again.

Now click on the audio TAB and scroll down to WAV AUDIO and select that, you will be able to select you extracted wav file from here, also make sure FULL PROCESSING MODE is selected in the audio tab, then upto the conversion option in the audio tab and just put a tick in the high Qualilty option, then click ok.

Now to back to file again and scroll down to the START FRAME SERVER click ok on the next window and then enter a name for the AVI/DIVX your gonna convert, but remember to give it a .VDR extension so if it was scream you where converting the filename would be Scream.vdr.

Now startup CCE. right click on the main window, select ADD and make sure you set the file type's to all, then select your .VDR, once selected right on it and choose edit, this will bring you into the main working's of CCE.

UNCHECK the audio fuction in CCE, because CCE is shit when it comes to converting audio.

The rest you can figure out using the many guide's that are on this site.

Just a word of warning, this will take a long time depending on your PC and the length on the AVI/DIVX you going to convert.

If you can't be bothered with all of the above, then use DVD2SVCD it will do all the work for you and is always faster that above method.

[banjazzer]

Thanks for the detailed reply, which is useful to me. The main problem is that I can't open a .vdr file in CCE. Are you using 2.5? I read that 2.5 accepted .vdr but 2.62 didn't. (I'm using 2.64).

[marvel2020]

Yep using CCE 2.50, the reason it's not opening the VDR for you is that you need to to have the audio in your VDR as well.

I had the same problem too, it wouldn't open the vdr but as soon as i try the VDUB framesering method it worked.

Just the that method an i'm sure that CCE will open the VDR.


You could also use a .avs script to fool CCE that you have audi, but don't ask me how, i'm a real total NOOB when it come's to .avs script :P

I don't use the VDUB frameserving method anymore, i'm using DVD2 SVCD, much quicker and it does everyting for you

[banjazzer]

If I'm converting from DVD I use DVD2AVI and Gordian Knot to create an .avs script. This works fine. However, it is converting from DivX which is more difficult. I can go via TMPG, create a project and then a pseudo-avi, but this seems quite slow by comparison.

[BJ_M]

2.66 has no problems going from vdub to cce (works great on dvd2avi project files also) ..

i find 2.66 a little slower than 2.5 but better results and less hassles than 2.5 (2.66 doesnt care if audio in or out) ..

[banjazzer]

Yes, I've just been looking at the documentation for 2.64 and 2.66. For 2.66 it specifically mentions accepting frameserver input from Virtualdub, whilst for 2.64 it doesn't. Ah well, I can live without it for now. 8)