ecf question

[kronik]

hey all,
i'm getting a lot of keyframes close together. i made a stats file with nandub, then opened it with gnot and put the max and min distance to 270 and 10 then clicked clear then auto. then i clicked calculate and save for a new stats file. and then saved the ecf file. when i start the second pass and watch the video tab on status there are a few scenes with a lot of red bars (key frames?) and some yellow bars...did i do something wrong or are these probably needed?

edit:
i'm making the ecf file after the first pass and then making/using the edited stats file, is this right? and is it best to have 1 keyframe (first frame) for every scene...or do i need them all throughout certain heavy changing scenes? if not i'd like to make an ecf file that only has keyframes on a new scene cut, if it's better :)

thanks
KroniK

[manono]

Hi-

Are you using anti-shit? Because if so, it will ignore your keyframe settings. If it decides the frame might have "shit" (depending on your settings), it will try and get rid of it by creating a new keyframe. So, that might be one reason for what you're noticing.

Also, open Nandub and go Options-Preferences-Scene and check "Use Alternate". I find that it gives better scene change detection.

But other than that, I think what you're doing already sounds good.

[kronik]

thanks,
no anti-shit when using an ecf file...it dropped my keyframes of 3302 to 3117. which is better but should it be a much lower number or just a few hundred keyframes? and does anti-freeze affect an ecf too?
thanks again, and happy new year
KroniK

[manono]

Hi-

should it be a much lower number...?

Not necessarily. If there are a lot of fast edits or maybe a lot of gunfire or other kinds of flashes which have a tendency to set keyframes, you might get up to 1.5-2% keyframes. So it depends on how many frames there are to begin with. If it's a long movie I don't think it's out of line.

As far as I know, Anti-Freeze has nothing to do with the encoding, so I don't think that will affect it (but I could be wrong on that one).

[kronik]

great...thanks for the info. it was a long movie and heavy flashing and stuff hehe. the next movie i ripped had half as many keyframes. thanks again for the help. i'm getting pretty much perfect results with my recent ripping changes and now i'm going rip-happy hehehe.
Peace,
KroniK