Guide for batch processing?

[nathanaa]

WARNING - TOTAL AND COMPLETE NOOB QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW!

"Batch Processing
Opens the Batch Processing Panel. You can use this panel to execute several jobs in a row.
To use Batch Processing you must first save a project for each job you want to run. You can then Add/Delete your projects from the Batch Processing list, then click the Process button to start."

Ok, I've read this and looked at the option, but I don't think I understand what I am looking at. I have never done any kind of batch processing before, with any program. I thought I would give it a try and see how it works. I can't figure it out though!

Does anyone have a step-by-step guide for batch processing? With explanations? For example, I don't know what "first save a project for each job you want to run" *means* - save it where? And how?

Thanks for any help/advice all!

[DK]

open your movie-files just like you always do

go for the settings you'd like (i.e. choose en/transcoder etc)

but DON'T start the encoding/backup now

instead use => file => save project

repeat these steps for all movies you#d like to encode

finally start the batch function, use ADD and insert all projects you created before

make sure to provide enough harddrive space and start the batch processing

[nathanaa]

Ok, thanks - that makes sense now. I'll igve it a try and see how that goes. It could probably save me a lot of time, now that I think of it, lol!

[marpada]

I just used batch encoding once, and the experience was not happy :(

I set the Auto shutdown option, and it seems DVD-RB shut my computer down after the first job was done ( I hoped it would shut the computer down when all jobs were done).

That's not very important for me, because I use RB-farm for batch encodings, if only it had auto rebuild and auto shutdown :)


Originally posted by DK
open your movie-files just like you always do

go for the settings you'd like (i.e. choose en/transcoder etc)

but DON'T start the encoding/backup now

instead use => file => save project

repeat these steps for all movies you#d like to encode

finally start the batch function, use ADD and insert all projects you created before

make sure to provide enough harddrive space and start the batch processing

[nathanaa]

Why would I want my computer to auto-shutdown after finishing the job? Is it a convenience thing or is there some actual benefit to it? I've never been able to grasp why someone would want that setting.

[jdobbs]

I only put it there because it was requested by several people. I've never used it myself except in testing.
set the Auto shutdown option, and it seems DVD-RB shut my computer down after the first job was done ( I hoped it would shut the computer down when all jobs were done).

DVD-RB doesn't have the ability to shut down after only one job when there are others in the queue -- so something else happened. The Shutdown code is after a loop that goes through all jobs first.

[archaeo]

Why would I want my computer to auto-shutdown after finishing the job? Is it a convenience thing or is there some actual benefit to it? I've never been able to grasp why someone would want that setting.

better question: Why would you want your computer running when you don't need it running? For overnight projects, that's the issue.

[nathanaa]

Well, I ran my first batch process with Band of Brothers, the first 2 discs. Worked fine/great, had to use ReJig unfortunately. Still, it was very easy, and I'm glad I know how to use that function now. Very handy.

I don't turn my computer off very often. I reboot faily often, but I am sometimes on all day and half the night, then set something to run while I'm sleeping. If it finishes I want to be able to double check what was going on when I last left the computer (helps me remember what I had going on).

[jdobbs]

So why did you have to use ReJig?

[nathanaa]

Had to use ReJig, because no matter what I do, I cannot get RBw/QuEnc to function. I've posted several long-winded explanations of what I have done to try and get it to work, but no go.

I have *never* been able to get QuEnc to function with RB. I have been given all kinds of confusing advice about what to try, and I attempt to sort through it as best as possible, but "I'm a newbie" and "I'm no expert" or "I don't understand x" usually still gets me very confusing and technical answers. <shrug> I got very lucky with the batch process question though - very straight forward. Not a very technical thing though, I suppose, lol.

Anyway, Saturday or Sunday I'm going to (again) try to hash my way through various QuEnc posts and reinstall various versions and see if I can't get QuEnc to work. I would really like it to, as it is the entire reason I downloaded RB in the first place. I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong, or what the program is having fits with.

[jdobbs]

Have you tried the automated installer that Rockas created?

[nathanaa]

Yes, I did. Well, first I installed it months ago "normally", and it never worked for me. Then when my HDD fried a month ago and I had to reinstall everything in the new HDD, I used the Installer. Still nothing. Runs for 16-20 hours plus, then crashes or locks up with Error 0003, or Error 0006, something else too I think, been a week or so, can't remember exactly what else it said now.