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1576 · 2nd May 2003, 09:52

Being fairly new to CCE, and needing a very good quality picture with a greatly reduced filesize, I had a go at doing a 2 pass VBR, after first running a CBR to get the vaf file.
After a while of playing around with the local bitrate settings to get a green background in the first few seconds, I felt confident enough to try the entire movie (nearly 3hr film)
So I get to a point where Ive painstakingly got a green background 45 mins into the film (which has taken me in the region of 9 hrs to do!!) and all of a sudden my PC crashes and I lose the entire lot. Not very happy!!

My question is this: Is there a way to save any work that Ive done on bit allocation in the future, if Im doing massive (to me) projects, and I dont feel like leaving my PC on day& night? Or do I just have accept that this kind of work can only be done in a certain way?
Id be grateful for any relevant feedback, as I'd like to have another go, but need to be able to back things up as Im going along if I can.

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1576 Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 22	Bit Allocation Misery Being fairly new to CCE, and needing a very good quality picture with a greatly reduced filesize, I had a go at doing a 2 pass VBR, after first running a CBR to get the vaf file. After a while of playing around with the local bitrate settings to get a green background in the first few seconds, I felt confident enough to try the entire movie (nearly 3hr film) So I get to a point where Ive painstakingly got a green background 45 mins into the film (which has taken me in the region of 9 hrs to do!!) and all of a sudden my PC crashes and I lose the entire lot. Not very happy!! My question is this: Is there a way to save any work that Ive done on bit allocation in the future, if Im doing massive (to me) projects, and I dont feel like leaving my PC on day& night? Or do I just have accept that this kind of work can only be done in a certain way? Id be grateful for any relevant feedback, as I'd like to have another go, but need to be able to back things up as Im going along if I can.