CCE Problems

[DoblANy]

Hi All,

Please can somebody help me.

I am tring to encode AVI's in CCE 2.66 (Trial Edition) I have followed the guide over @ doom9 but my m2v has a large green bar across the top 1/4 of the screen, the rest of the screen flashes blue 3 times a second and the colours are, well ugly.

I have tried vaious sources and various versions of CCE and i don't know whats wrong.

Please can somebody advise.

Thanks
Dob


P.S. Just got some ICE 4x DVD 4.7GBs today and they are fab 13 minutes in my A05 for a DVD movie WAY KEWL!!!

[videocheez]

I had the same problem but finally I had some success after I used the following Avisynth script:

avisource("elor12nb.avi")
BicubicResize(720,272)
AddBorders(0,104,0,104)
ConvertToYUY2()

elor12nb.avi is the name of my avi. Instead of running CCE on the AVI file, I ran it on this Avisynth script file which somehow magically encodes the avi and does some other stuff to it that I'm still trying to figure out.

Goodluck,

VC

[DoblANy]

Thanks for the advise videocheez,

the only problem is i don't know how to use AVISynth i have made the script but how do i run it? theirs no GUI of DOB commands?

Could you help with this as well?


Cheers
Dob

[videocheez]

Install Avisynth on your computer. Dowload it and click on it. It somehow gets embedded into your computer's brain.
Then you write a script, like I did in the last thread into a text editor but after you save the script, go back and change the text file's extension from *.txt to *.avs. Then load this file into CCE instead of loading the AVI.
Follow the guide at www.doom9.org very carefully and write me back and tell me where you get stuck.

Teamwork,

VC

[DoblANy]

Hi VC

Thanks for all your help its been great.

I have followed your advice and your script works perfect The only thing i could not get my head around was the video resize 720x272 - why 272? i tried 480 and 576 and CCE cam back with an error saying frame size too big? Stange Any thoughs? Will 272 be okay for DVDs played on 28" tv's?

Once again thanks for all you r help

Dob

[digitalmaster]

I had the same problem. Instead of using AddBorders use Letterbox. This fixed the issue. Letterbox does the same thing as AddBorders

[videocheez]

Dob,

I chose 272 because thee CCE guide at www.doom.org told me to. I'm still learning this stuff and the aspect ratio stuff is still confusing but the reason that 272 as chosen is based on the aspect ratio of the original AVI. Download Gspot and it will tell you all sorts of stuff about the original AVI. Read the following that I copied from doom9's aspect ratio guide and it explains a little bit about my choice of 272:

CCE is a little underfeatured for this kind of processing so you're required to have some knowledge of aspect ratios. Once you are familiar with that you should have no problem following the little math required in this step. Anyway, first we have to find out a little more about our source AVI. Start GSpot again and load the AVI.

As you should know by having read the aspect ratio article movies mostly have 3 aspect ratios: 1:1.33, 1:1.85 and 1:2.35 (GSpot inverses the two numbers in its display). As you can see on the left this particular movie has an aspect ratio of 1:2.35 (the 2.353 is much closer to 2.35 than 1.85 and 1.33).


First of all, since our AVIs have a DAR of 1:1 it makes not much sense encoding at 16:9 so we're going 4:3 instead. First let's deal with the NTSC case. DVD resolution for NTSC demands 720x480. With a 4:3 DAR the actual picture you'll be seeing is 480 x 4 / 3 = 640 so we have to ensure that at the resolution of 640x480 our picture doesn't look stretched. As 640 / 2.35 = 272 an 1:2.35 movie has to fill up 272 vertical lines to look correct. So, you resize such a movie to 720x272 and add 480 - 272 / 2 = 104 lines of black on each side. For an 1:1.85 picture you'd resize to 720x352 and add 480 - 352 / 2 = 64 black lines on each side and last but not least the 1:1.33 case where you resize to 720x480 and don't add any black lines.

Good luck,

VC