frame size error --> putting AVS into CCE

[wollmann]

I'm trying to catpure a home movie and make it a DVD.
I took my miniDV camera and connected it to the computer and to my old Hi8 camcorder, push play button on the Hi8 Cam and record on my Adobe Premiere program, all of this is working great but putting my AVS file inside CCE it says:
"Frame size 820x56 is not supported, Supported... ... 720x576"
how can that be? when I capture from Adobe I use the DV-PAL Standard and use those settings.
so what to do?

Thank you

Wollmann

[bb]

There's an error in your AVS script. 820x56 is the size of the error message AviSynth creates; you can see it if you open your script in Windows Media Player (or your preferred media player).

If you had posted your script, I would have been able to help you further.

bb

[wollmann]

hey BB

here is my script:

DirectShowSource("C:\Documents and Settings\HEddy\My Documents\My Videos\Sasha\1.avi", 25)
SeparateFields()
odd=SelectOdd.Convolution3D(1, 6, 10, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
evn=SelectEven.Convolution3D(1, 6, 10, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
Interleave(evn,odd)
Weave()
DoubleWeave.SelectOdd()

its the ordinary script from the guide in the forum.

when doing so right from a miniDV tape its working great, but now I hooked up my Hi8 cam to my miniDV cam, firewire to the computer and capture the film, and now it does the problem.
why is that?

wollmann

[bb]

Does your Hi8 camcorder capture at a different framerate? The script sets it to 25 fps.

What's the error message?

bb

[wollmann]

no it is set to 25fps.
could it be that even if I set it to capture at one frame size it captures it at another frame size because it is Hi8?

because I just checked the frame size of the movie and it is 768 x 576, although I set it to capture at 720x576.

wollmann

[bb]

Although I don't like to repeat myself: what is the error message?

Now that you tell that the frame size changed: how did you connect your Hi8 camcorder? DV should be 720x576, any other resolution is outside the standard and very likely not supported. I assumed that your Hi8 analogue data gets converted to DV inside the miniDV camcorder, so you should get a 720x576 resolution. If not, the DV codec on your PC very likely doesn't support 768x576. I don't know if there's a DV codec which supports non-DV resolutions (never tried).

What happens if you record to miniDV tape first, then (with the Hi8 cam plugged out) transfer the DV data from tape to PC via firewire?

bb

[wollmann]

didn't try that, I will check it out.

about the error massage (and sorry for letting you repeat on things you say) :

"Frame size 820x56 is not supported. Supported frame size is up to 720x576"

this is the error CCE gives me.

wollmann

[EEBA]

There may be error in your AVISynth script. See Q14.2 in CCE FAQ.

[bb]

Originally posted by wollmann
"Frame size 820x56 is not supported. Supported frame size is up to 720x576"

this is the error CCE gives me.
I was talking about the AviSynth error you can display in Windows Media Player as posted above:
Originally posted by bb
you can see it if you open your script in Windows Media Player (or your preferred media player

bb

[EEBA]

I personally had these frame size error in the past. When I tried encode with CCE using mpeg2dec3.dll and AVISynth 2.x, I get this error. However, when I encode the same clip with mpeg2dec.dll and AVISynth 1.x, the encoding went fine. After lots of reading here, I found out the compatability issue between various plugins used in AVISynth and the loading of AVISynth.dlls called when the program is executed.

After I uninstalled AVISynth 1.x, the encoding with CCE went fine. So check the AVISynth script or look into different versions of AVISynth installed in your machine. Uninstall all the versions that you don't want and you will be fine. If you don't want to uninstall various version of AVISynth, look into AVISynth forum for "How to switch various versions of AVISynth".

EEBA

[wollmann]

ok, fixed it.
there was an error with the script, with convo3d.

sorry for the touble, thanks for helping.

BTW, how it can be that when I see the AVI file in GSpot it gives me 720x576 but when I see it in WMP it shows 768 x 576?

wollmann

[bb]

GSpot reads the real aspect ratio from the AVI file header. If you play the file directly in WMP, you should get 720x576, too, but maybe your DV decoder is set to resize to 4:3 aspect ratio, and WMP shows the displayed size (just guessing here).

bb