Encoding episodes

[Raging_Inferno]

I have got initial d on Dvd and i want to get it into svcd. Problem is that 9 episode are in one big movie and the whole movie is 3 hours :(!
I don't want to have my computer do a 3 hour movie at once, instead one episode at a time.
1)I was thinking of making one big project with dvd2avi and having the tmpgenc cutting eps (that would work if i just pick the source range right?)
and having avisynth link it with cce

2)What about the subtitles...
I prefer it if i did not use Virtual dub for the subtitles. Was there a plug in for avisynth that would add the subtitles in? Last time i tried it, it didn't work.

3)The audio...
Most of the time i would finish the video then do the audio. I would have Besweet do it. But since im cutting the audio along with the video i would have to link it with avisynth don't I? Would i need to change the ac3 into wav for avisynth to work?

Thanks! :)

[Saiya-Jin]

I'm doing VCD encodes from anime DVDs that I have for a friend of mine, and this is the way I do it.

After ripping it, I make the .d2v file with DVD2AVI, then I decode the .ac3 audio to .wav, then I load the .d2v and .wav on TMPGEnc and I load my VCD template (custom but you use whatever you want, of course) then I go to the source range option, select my episode, then I choose where I'm saving the final .mpg of that episode and go to file>save project and save the .tpr (project file) and then go back to source range to select my next episode and so on...

Then when I'm done saving project files, I go to file>batch encode, then I select all the .tpr files and let it do its thing :)

After it's done you will have all the .mpgs properly separated, don't have to worry about the sound either.

Then I just author it with VCDEasy.

I'm not using subtitles so I can't help you with that, sorry.

You mentioned avisynth, I'm sure you can do the same thing, just loading the .avs file instead of the .d2v directly. I never used CCE so I don't know about that either.

Well, I hope I helped a little bit. :) Good Luck.