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ppera2
27th May 2002, 21:11
Nothing revolutionarry here, but may help...

After unsuccesfull trying to make CCE work under XP, I get rid of frameserving, and decided to try with intermediate AVI file.

It appeared finally as very good solution, and even can result with shorter encoding time in some cases.

Of course I used Huffyuv codec, V2.1.1. Just make sure that output is YUV and not RGB format, or you will get much bigger file.
(Set Convert to YUV2 in RGB TAB). Set filters and resize to 480x576 if you make PAL. In this case 50 min of video will take around 11 GB space, what is not much for today's drives. I count with 50 min, because it is some average length for SVCD. Then make AVI file. Speed will depend much from used filters, but you need to make it only once.

I made it with VirtualDub, but it can be made for example in DVD2AVI 1.76 too in simpler cases.

Once, when we have AVI, it's easy and fast. Feed CCE with it, and you will get nice speed. I had 1.15 with my Athlon@1286 MHz (DDR board).

By default 3 pass encoding, what is actual 4 pass you will spare 3 times usage of filters, so it can be faster than with frameserving.

It will work only with CCE 2.62, because 2.5 (and lower too, maybe) can't work with AVI files above 2 GB.
And hope, you have NTFS - we talk about Win XP ;)

mb1
28th May 2002, 00:56
You can work with CCE 2.50sp, too.

Virtual Dub - Save segmented avi (2 GB)

Then load every segment into cce 2.50 (with encode settings - settings !) and encode it to one single m2v ...

Thatīs my 15 months old "video way 4" :p

And cce speed depends on avi data rate.
And also tests have shown that you do not need huffyuv for that kind of intermediate avi. I preferred Leadtools 1.0.0.11 and second PicVideo.
You donīt recognize (theoretical) quality losses - and you get speeeeed :scared:

Arky
2nd June 2002, 18:01
Originally posted by mb1
And cce speed depends on avi data rate.

As someone who's only used CCSP intermittently in the past (whenever I've got the chance to use my mate's P3 laptop, cos I only have a PII), but will shortly be getting a new desktop P4, I am taking an increased interest in the Cinemacraft forum, here on Doom9, rather than just the DVD-authoring side of things. I am intrigued, therefore, at your above remark, Mb1 - can you please explain to me why the AVI data rate has any effect on Cinemacraft, other than the speed of data transfer from the harddisk itself, via the CPU.

Cheers mate! :D


Arky ;o)