some questions about GKnot

[hs]

Hi, Y'all.

There are some things I'd like to hear some opinions about:

1.) Credits: I enter a start frame in GKnot, set the weight to 12%, and Nandub encodes the credits with 1200Kbit, although my average bitrate is 750. I didn't find it in the help files so I ask here: Do I also have to activate the 'credit-switch' in NanDub ? (I mean, enter a startframe and a bitrate)
I even tried to set the weigth in GKnot to 3%, but the credits still got >700 Kbit.
After I told Nandub to compress the credits to 300kbit, everything worked as expected

2.) 'Auto-Crop' does a good job on cropping the upper and lower parts. But with the two movies I used it, it also wanted to cut two pixel at the RIGHT, although at the LEFT side there was a 10 pixel wide black (vertical) area. (And also the aspect error was better after manually adjusting that)

3.) The help file advices not to downsample the sound to 44Khz. I did that every time and had absolutely no sync-problems. Why should there be any sync-problems ? I mean, there are a lot of videofiles around with 44khz-sound
Maybe I have been just lucky until now :) ?

...HS

[manono]

Hi hs-

1. Didn't you hit Calculate after entering the End Credit information? You do that and then watch the graph adjust itself.

2. I don't use Auto-Crop. It doesn't work well.

3. If 44Khz works for you, then no reason not to keep using it.

[hs]

1.) Of course I calculated the curve (otherwise the save-button wouldn't be activated) and in some way it did work: the bitrate for credits dropped from 1200 (with 12% weigth) to roughly 700 (with 5%). But I was not able to reduce it any further and 700 kbit is too much for the credits for a 1CD-Release.
I'll keep an eye on it next time. Maybe I find the problem - at least I know now that it should work without any further settings in Nandub.

3.) Good point :) I was only wondering where other people's sync-probs could come from.

...HS