The Film Machine-Not a valid ecl for CCE Basic

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  1. squizzle

    squizzle Active member

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    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??
     
  2. Weycraze

    Weycraze Regular member

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    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
     
  3. squizzle

    squizzle Active member

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    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.
     
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    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!
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  5. Weycraze

    Weycraze Regular member

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    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
     
  6. squizzle

    squizzle Active member

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    ecl file is 3kB, I only got 54kB encoded. I'll give Minion a shout and see what he says about it.

    Thanks
     

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