Steve56
15th October 2003, 22:26
I am converting QuickTimeDV streams recorded with Formac Studio TV to MPEG2 using CCE 2.67.00.13 (ECLed)
After a few days now I found some oddities and solutions to it:
a) CCE always adds the first frame of the source QuickTime stream to the selected frame range, indifferent what "in" frame you set. (This should be fixed in CCE >= 2.67.00.14, Tsunami? :-)
Therefore only encode from the beginning of a stream and set the "in" frame in cce from 0 to 1, otherwise the first pic gets encoded 2 times. (If needed trim the source movie to the wished starting frame before adding it in CCE)
b) the selected "out" frame in CCE does not get encoded. So always select +1 more frame as you actually want in the final mpeg.
But there is still one more problem:
On QuickTime DV or Avisynth AVS, CCE loses one of the last frames when encoding! I reproduced this problem with one QuickTimeDV Stream, AVI (DV), or the same stream frameserved with AviSynth/VFAPI/QTReader too.
Anyone knows if this happens in newer and older versions of CCE alike? Any solutions?
Steve56
[Edit]
Ok, finally I found the fix for the missing frame:
The button "Add sequence end code" in CCE Video options has to be checked, then no frame get lost at the end of the stream!
Steve56
After a few days now I found some oddities and solutions to it:
a) CCE always adds the first frame of the source QuickTime stream to the selected frame range, indifferent what "in" frame you set. (This should be fixed in CCE >= 2.67.00.14, Tsunami? :-)
Therefore only encode from the beginning of a stream and set the "in" frame in cce from 0 to 1, otherwise the first pic gets encoded 2 times. (If needed trim the source movie to the wished starting frame before adding it in CCE)
b) the selected "out" frame in CCE does not get encoded. So always select +1 more frame as you actually want in the final mpeg.
But there is still one more problem:
On QuickTime DV or Avisynth AVS, CCE loses one of the last frames when encoding! I reproduced this problem with one QuickTimeDV Stream, AVI (DV), or the same stream frameserved with AviSynth/VFAPI/QTReader too.
Anyone knows if this happens in newer and older versions of CCE alike? Any solutions?
Steve56
[Edit]
Ok, finally I found the fix for the missing frame:
The button "Add sequence end code" in CCE Video options has to be checked, then no frame get lost at the end of the stream!
Steve56