bad encode?

AMV_4000 · Post by **AMV_4000** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:56 am

dont open it via avisynth, try just opening the avi straight into vdub?

dowhatnow · Post by **dowhatnow** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:30 am

AMV_4000 wrote:dont open it via avisynth, try just opening the avi straight into vdub?

I have tried just straight opening it, and the same thing happens.

Let's say it did work if I did that, would I then just add an avs script later? One that would look something like:

#ASYNTHER Default (AVISource)
AVISource("C:\directory\vid.avi")
OtherStuffHere()

I went through the EADFAG and found this. Would that help me out any?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 1:32 pm

hmm...never used it personally, but I'd give it a shot

dowhatnow · Post by **dowhatnow** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 2:39 pm

Thanks, I'll do that. Any help on the script I could/should use, if not the one I posted?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:33 pm

it really depends on the source, but doing things like applying a smoother (somewhere along the line between .vob and final product) and cropping black borders off of the video help with compressing. (as pointed out in EADFAG)

posting the name of your source and a few screenshots could help in determining what (if anything) needs to be done

dowhatnow · Post by **dowhatnow** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:57 pm

The source is Saiyuki: Requiem

Here they are:

Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2
Snapshot 3
Snapshot 4
Snapshot 5

This is by no means all of them, but all of the video errors are of the same type... I think. If you'll look at the top just under the letterboxing, you'll see what I'm talking about.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 5:08 pm

yep...that's premiere pro being stupid.
other than that I can't see anything that should be fixed
did you try opening it in avisynth with avisource()?
(not sure what default(avisource) does)

what about just opening the uncompressed vid with vdub(/mod)?
does it still give you that scrambled (for lack of better term) picture?

dowhatnow · Post by **dowhatnow** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 2:25 pm

I have opened it in avisynth with avisource(). It appears fine in VDub, but when I try to compress it, not only does VDub close unexpectedly, it creates a beta that's far too large for the amount of time that it runs. Not only that, when I try to view the aforementioned beta, it's either badly broken or it doesn't show video at all. I'm trying again as I type.

As for that uncompressed straight into vdub, it did last time I tried it, but I've added a couple clips since then, and I've tried again, and yes, it does.

dowhatnow · Post by **dowhatnow** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:12 pm

I just finished encoding the video I exported in lagarith and then opened using avisource(), and it stopped and closed VDub when the encoding process got to 785/810 frames. It should still play (I think), but it doesn't. What's going on here?

I tried exporting again using DebugMode Frameserver, but it basically told me that nothing was happening. Not only that, I looked at the settings, and it asks me for an IP address and a port number to FrameServe. Does anyone know how to use this thing very well? I'm confused.

One other thing: Could I get away with selecting "None" from the drop-down list of compressors Pro 2.0 has? Wouldn't that essentially be uncompressed?

Also, in the pre-processing stage, should I convert the video into another colorspace such as RGB?

dowhatnow · Post by **dowhatnow** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:10 pm

I sincerely apologize for the triple post, but I think I've found a remedy to my problem.

What I did was:

1. Export from Pro in Huffy, Lagarith, and Uncompressed
2. Only Huffy and Lagarith seemed fine in VDubMod, so I proceeded with the next step, testing both codecs
3. Went through all my scripts/filters then added ConverttoRGB32() at the end
4. Encoded in Uncompressed
5. Re-encoded in XviD
6. Added audio

All the errors I mentioned went away when encoded in uncompressed, and the quality is pretty damn nice on the huffy version of the XviD encode.

My questions are:

Should I have opened the uncompressed encode in VDM again, using only ConverttoYV12() in the script?

Should I have added an extra step and encoded in huffy or lagarith for either version between steps 4 and 5?

If I were to use this video in an MEP, would I do what I asked before?