Does CCE save passes?

[ILj]

I was on the 9th pass of a 9-pass encode when my machine took a big dump and I had to reboot. :( Now, can I simply load the .ecl back into CCE, lower the number of passes to 1 or 2 and have the quality still be the same as a 9 pass encode? Does CCE "save" passes in the .vaf file? My guess is it would have to unless there was some other temporary file that it is writing to while encoding.

Any help would be appreciated... thanks :)

-ILj

[r6d2]

Originally posted by ILj
Now, can I simply load the .ecl back into CCE, lower the number of passes to 1 or 2 and have the quality still be the same as a 9 pass encode?
Yes. Just make sure you reuse the VAF file.

BTW, 9 passes is unnecessary time waste. VBR 2 (plus the VAF pass) is quite more than enough.

[ILj]

Cool, thanks for the reply... I did that and it looks great. :) Well, I've been downsamping DVDs to DVDR for a little over a year now and I like doing 9 passes because I don't mind the time it takes to encode... I'm usually asleep/at school/somewhere else so it doesn't bother me... plus, I do notice a slight difference between say 5 pass encodes and 9 pass encodes... I have a decent system, 30" Samsung HDTV WS CRT tv, progressive scan Sony dvd player w/ component inputs to the tv... maybe I'm just on crack or whatever but I don't mind the "time waste" so I figure why not.. :>

I just want Pioneer to release that dual layer burner they're developing so we can just skip this downsampling/stripping nonsense completely... :)

Thanks again,

ILj