Re-encoding assets (a second time)

[foxmid]

I've had the chance to run into bad bitrate calcs, or more often, user error, that forces me to re-encode a video for a second time. I know this is a total noob question, but bear with me, please...

Utilizing the big-three is the easiest quickest way to get these things done, but if I've already done a 3 pass roba, i've already got valid .VAF file, and should only have to do a single pass to achieve the proper file size.

I'm a little unclear as to the easiest way to accomplish this. If I run it back through any of the automated tools BatchCCEWS, DoCCE4U, BatchEncodeM2v, etc - I start over again.

Assuming that I'm not the only one who wound up with a main movie 80 MB too large, what do you guys do?

thanks for the knowledge..

[D3s7]

The latest build of BEM has an option to "Create New VAF" that defaults to checked...

for each asset you want to re-encode, clear that box - doing so it'll use the existing VAF file and just do XX more passes

Latest Alpha build (on sourceforge) of BatchCCEWS has the same feature but it's flipped.. there the option is to "Use Existing VAF"

[foxmid]

thanks. I saw that option on BEM. Wish I could make it work. I'll check out the latest BatchCCEWS version.