As the thread title states, I'm having a problem using the Film Machine software. I load the AVI file in and it transcodes the sound, but then when it tries to do the video it gives me a message saying that the ECL is not a valid ECL for Cinema Craft Encoder Basic, which is what I use (retail version, not trial). CCE is ver. 2.70.0.4 I believe. Any takers??
It may be because you need the ecl plugin. I know it's designated for CCE trial versions, but it might fix your pinch: Check this out: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/aviscript.html You may also want to check what these folk have to say about ECL: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=46664 Anyways, I did some googl'in around for ya and that's about all I found. hope it helps you out squizzle. Weycraze
thanks a lot, I'll try it out and let you know how it goes. Everything I read about it says it supports CCE SP trial but nothing about the retail version of CCE Basic. It seems that most plug-ins for CCE are like that, which sucks. But I'll let you know how this one goes.
ok, that didn't help me but I did find an updated version of the film machine program. This new one supports CCE version 2.70, which is what I'm using. The older version of the program only supported CCE 2.67. So I got it to open up CCE and encode with it. But I ended up with a menu and no DVD movie. Here's the log file it gave me: -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/16/2005 3:47:24 AM - AVI to DVD conversion - The FilmMachine version 1.5.0.9 beta -------------------------------------------------------- Initializing. Computer Info CPU name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ Available memory: 1024 MB Windows version : Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Initializing finished. DirectX Version = 9.0c Saving Avi-Info files Rewriteable media (DVD+RW) -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/16/2005 3:47:32 AM - Free on drive C: 47.51 GB - Audio Conversion -------------------------------------------------------- Executing BeSweet DLL. Commandline: -boost( /b2=5 ) -ota( -fs 48000 ) -ac3enc( -b 224 ) Converting audio of file 1: C:\George Carlin-Again\VTS_01_1.avi DirectShow messages: EC_CLOCK_CHANGED - The reference clock has changed. EC_PAUSED - A pause request has completed. EC_COMPLETE - All data from a particular stream has been rendered. Audio conversion finished. Starting CCE 2.70 for getting the CCE title. -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/16/2005 3:53:22 AM - Free on drive C: 47.51 GB - Video Encoding using Cinema Craft Encoder SP 2.70 -------------------------------------------------------- Executing Cinema Craft Encoder. TFM_Project_File.ecl found TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 3:53:22 AM TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 4:34:01 AM Encoding finished -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/16/2005 4:34:04 AM - Free on drive C: 46.75 GB - Creating DVD compliant files -------------------------------------------------------- Mplex is multiplexing the video and audio stream..... mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $) File C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_EN~1.AC3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream. Multiplexing finished. Encoding Background jpeg. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Parsing & checking input files. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Image dimensions are 720x480 INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Movie frame rate is: 29.970030 frames/second INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Interlaced frames, top field first. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Frame size: 720 x 480 INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Now generating YUV4MPEG stream. INFO: [jpeg2yuv] Processing non-interlaced/interleaved C:/PROGRA~1/THEFIL~1/Output/TFM_Background.jpg, size 102624l. INFO: [mpeg2enc] Selecting DVD output profile INFO: [mpeg2enc] Assuming norm NTSC INFO: [mpeg2enc] Encoding MPEG-2 video to C:/PROGRA~1/THEFIL~1/Output/TFM_Background.m2v INFO: [mpeg2enc] Horizontal size: 720 pel INFO: [mpeg2enc] Vertical size: 480 pel INFO: [mpeg2enc] Aspect ratio code: 3 = 16:9 display INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame rate code: 4 = 30000.0/1001.0 (NTSC VIDEO) INFO: [mpeg2enc] Bitrate: 7500 KBit/s INFO: [mpeg2enc] Quality factor: 8 (1=best, 31=worst) INFO: [mpeg2enc] Field order for input: top-field-first INFO: [mpeg2enc] Sequence unlimited length INFO: [mpeg2enc] Search radius: 16 INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP SIZE RANGE 9 TO 15 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Setting colour/gamma parameters to "NTSC" INFO: [mpeg2enc] Progressive format frames = 0 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Buffering 39 frames INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING 3DNOW and EXTENDED MMX for QUANTIZER! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for MOTION! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING MMX for TRANSFORM! INFO: [mpeg2enc] SETTING EXTENDED MMX for PREDICTION! INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 1 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame start 0 I 0 0 INFO: [mpeg2enc] Frame end 0 261.83 261.83 11.6 11.58 INFO: [mpeg2enc] GOP LENGTH = 0 Encoding Background jpeg finished. Multiplexing Background jpeg. mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $) File C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_Background.m2v looks like an MPEG Video stream. Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options! Found 0 audio streams and 1 video streams Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile Multiplexing video program stream! Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (C:\PROGRA~1\THEFIL~1\Output\TFM_Background.m2v) VIDEO STREAM: e0 Frame width : 720 Frame height : 480 Aspect ratio : 16:9 display Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec Bit rate : 7500000 bits/sec Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes CSPF : 0 SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream: rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 7655000 target data-rate specified : 10080000 Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000 Scanned to end AU 0 Run-in Sectors = 88 Video delay = 12873 Audio delay = 0 New sequence commences... Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000 STREAM e0 completed @ frame 0. Multiplex completion at SCR=3803. Video e0: buf= 187821 frame=000000 sector=00000025 VIDEO_STATISTICS: e0 Video Stream length: 49747 bytes Sequence headers: 1 Sequence ends : 1 No. Pictures : 0 No. Groups : 1 No. I Frames : 1 avg. size 49747 bytes No. P Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes No. B Frames : 0 avg. size 0 bytes Average bit-rate : 11927200 bits/sec Peak bit-rate : 0 bits/sec BUFFERING stream too short for useful statistics MUX STATUS: no under-runs detected. Multiplexing Background jpeg finished. Spumux is creating the DVD menu..... DVDAuthor::spumux, version 0.6.11. Build options: gnugetopt magick iconv freetype fribidi Send bugs to <dvdauthor-users@lists.sourceforge.net> ImageMagick: Unable to load file (C:\Program Files\The FilmMachine\Output\TFM_Ntsc_Highlight.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 WARN: Read 0, expected 4 Statistics: - Processed 0 subtitles. - The longest display line had -1 characters. - The maximum number of displayed lines was 0. - The normal display height of the font arial.ttf was 0. - The bottom display height of the font arial.ttf was 0. - The biggest subtitle box had 0 bytes. Creating DVD menu finished. DVDAuthor is writing the VOB files..... Locale=C Converting filenames to US-ASCII dvdauthor creating VTS Video pts = 0.176 .. 0.209 Generating VTSM with the following video attributes: MPEG version: mpeg2 TV standard: ntsc Aspect ratio: 16:9 Resolution: 720x480 Writing VOB files finished. Finished authoring DVD -------------------------------------------------------- - 7/16/2005 10:02:49 AM - Free on drive C: 46.79 GB - DVD creation finished! --------------------------------------------------------
Nice log file, no errors!! Except for this: ImageMagick: Unable to load file (C:\Program Files\The FilmMachine\Output\TFM_Ntsc_Highlight.png). WARN: Bad image, skipping line -1 WARN: Read 0, expected 4 I'm not sure about this, but I noticed in the log file your GOP range was 9 to 15, I think it should be 18. TFM_Project_File.ecl found TFM_Project_File.ecl encoding started at 3:53:22 AM TFM_Project_File.ecl encoded at 4:34:01 AM Encoding finished Seems like a very quick encode around 40 mins, with CCE that would be the menu, not the movie. What size is the ecl file? I wish I could help you more, I am at my limit. I would suggest soliciting the great Minion for help!!! Weycraze
ecl file is 3kB, I only got 54kB encoded. I'll give Minion a shout and see what he says about it. Thanks