Two Questions

[rookworm3]

Ok -- one dumb and one (hopefully) not so dumb:

1- What settings sould one use for B&W movies (presumably, the normal ones are pretty redundant in this case considering they allow for the possibility of color)?

2- I may be missing something obvious, but I can't figure out how to preform two- pass encoding on a specific segment rather than the whole clip (i.e. I select a portion of the film to encode; press F8 and it starts encoding from the beginning -- works fine when I use "save avi"). What am I doing wrong?

[rmatei]

1) Wrong thinking; DVDs and divx are both YUV compression formats. B&W would be redundant for RGB but due to the way YUV stores color it's not. I won't go into details but you can look for an explanation of YUV formats if you want to understand why.

2) Nandub has a problem with selecting range inside it for the first pass. As you said, it always does the whole source. To get around this you habe to create a separate d2v file with the portion you want, or if you're using Avisynth you can clip the portion you want in the script.

[LotionBoy]

you can also just select what you don't want, delete those frames and do a first pass/2nd pass on what is left.

LotionBoy

[sibe]

But keep in mind that if you do 1st/2nd pass only for a part of the movie the scene will look different than if you do the whole movie. To see what a scene will look like in a "real" encoding you have to do at least the first pass for the whole movie and then the second pass of your selected scene only.

Sibe