can't get Virtualdub to encode my second pass

[Jenya]

I've been following the A&E technical guide here on the site and am up to the point where I'm trying encode video files for distribution. I encode my first pass and everything works fine; video looks good and works good, but it's a bit too big. So I try to do the second pass and target the file size down by 70% like the guide says. But everytime I try to save as to create AVI file, I get this error message saying Statsfile not found! And then I get another error message pop-up saying "Cannot start video compression: The operation is not supported. (error code -1)

Help please?

[mirkosp]

When you did the first pass, it made a video.pass file. It probably is looking for that file but can't find it. Either you point it to that file or you just re-do the first pass if you lost the video.pass file.

[Jenya]

When you did the first pass, it made a video.pass file. It probably is looking for that file but can't find it. Either you point it to that file or you just re-do the first pass if you lost the video.pass file.

How do I point it to the file exactly? I didn't see an option for that. I'll try playing with it some more to see if I missed it...

[mirkosp]

You click on the more... button next to Twopass 2nd pass and then you click on the ... next to Stats Filename.