Doubly frameserve

[nicco]

My target was to create a mpeg-2 video file from my original DV-Premiere project. I wanted to avoid recompressing the video and save disk space, so I did the follow:

step#1->I started frameserve from Premiere(Pro) with PluginPackFrameserving (frameserve.avi)

step#2->Becouse I wanted to correct brokenchromaupsampling and add some blur to my movie I created an Avisynth script(script1.avs):
AVIsource("frameserve.avi")
ConvertToYUY2(interlaced=true)
FixBrokenChromaUpsampling
Blur(0.7)

step#3->I made a fakeavi from my script1.avs in order to open the file in tmpge, so I used MakeAVI and created script1.avi---NOT NECESSARY, SEE MY POST BELOW---

step#4-> I loaded script1.avi in tmpeg and encoded it, the result was excellent!

Any comment?...
nicco

[Dibek]

You are going for DVD or SVCD?:confused:

[nicco]

for DVD

[bb]

Sounds good if it works for you.
On the other hand: have you tried ffvfw AviSynth frameserving as an alternative?

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[nicco]

can you give me more informations about "ffvfw AviSynth frameserving "? I don't know how it works, maybe there is a link with some explanations.
Thanks

Another question:
I don't know why the frameserved avi file from Premiere is not in YUY2, Premiere seems to export only in RGB32...
..?

nicco

[bb]

Look at this one:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49964

You'll find even more on this topic by searching for "ffvfw" and "avisynth".

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[nicco]

I've found that step#3 can be skipped, script1.avs can be loaded directly in Tmpg...

[nicco]

I must correct myself, and maybe someone can me say what's the problem: In my last post I said step#3 was not necessary becouse tmpg could open *.avs file directly. It's right, in fact if I have a "real" (DV, huffyuv, or Divx) avi file (for example dv-avi.avi) and I create an avs script (dv-avi.avs) then I can load dv-avi.avs into tmpg with no problem. But if I have a frameserved-avi file (fram-avi.avi) and I try to load the linked avs script (fram-avi.avs) directly into tmpg it hangs and in Premiere I get this error of PluginPackFrameseve: "EXCEPTION C0000005 at At164569, A160000" then Premiere crash...
If I do a fake-avi of my fram-avi.avs and then I load the fake-avi into tmpg everything works great... (like I described in my first post).......

[bb]

Don't know if that helps, but I remember there was an issue with the reader priorities. You can change them in Option / Environmental Setting / VFAPI plug-in. Maybe you should give the "AviSynth/VirtualDub script reader" a higher priority.

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[nicco]

Unfortunately there is not a "AviSynth/VirtualDub script reader" under VFAPI settings (TMPG 2.521)

[bb]

You need to install the AVS reader plugin. Get it here:
http://www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth/tmpgenc-readavs.zip

Hope this helps.

bb

Edit: Hmm, seems the link is dead... So be tough and try to find it elsewhere ;)

[joe355]

You can download ReadAVS from here (http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.edu/~benrg/avisynth/tmpgenc-readavs.zip).
This method works perfectly for me, but only for 16 minutes of encoding, after which mediastudio and TMPGEnc crash. This is due to a bug involving PluginPac and Mediastudio,(I dont think the bug exsists when frameserving from premiere). Ive been searching for a solution to this problem but have so far been unsuccessful.

[nicco]

The links you posted don't work, I found it at http://membres.lycos.fr/olambla/studio/frameserveur.html
(I found it with google)

joe355, do you use the method with the fakeavi of your avs or do you open your avs script directly? If you use this last method, make a test with the first one (the four step I described in the first post)
I don't know if pluginpack crash with premiere too, becouse my movie is shorter than 16mins, however I'll do a test..

[bb]

Here's another link:
http://www.christian-behrens.de/video/download/tmpgenc-readavs.zip

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[nicco]

Ok, I installed tmpgenc-readavs and now I can open my frameserved-avs script in Tmpg with no pluginpack and tmpg crashes! Now I can REALLY skip step#3 (I don't need the fakeavi anymore...)
Thanks

[joe355]

I haven't tried using the avi wrapper yet. (I always used ReadAVS) The problem seems to be associated with audio, as PluginPac works fine if only video is being served. I'll try again with a fake avi and see though.

[nicco]

Don't mind for audio, save it apart from video...