AVIsynth guide (Using with FlasKMPEG and CCE)

The AVIsynth guide
by Rob & Jim

Part 1 : The Avisynth guide
Part 2 : Using with Adobe Premiere and TMPG
Part 3 : Using with FlasKMPEG (Xmpeg)
Part 4 : Using with FlasKMPEG and CCE

The official AVisynth home page is now maintained by Edwin at:

Videotools.net

Rob has a great Avisynth experience:

Ask him for help

Part 4 : Using with FlasKMPEG and CCE

This part is to describe and to help in using Avisynth Video Server with FlaskMPEG and CCE 2.6.2.

To get a good result beware of the video structure. Use ONLY progressive video for this manual. If you use interlaced video the result will be bad. You can see if what you recorded is interlaced or not with DVD2AVI -> Preview. It will give you all the info you want.

To follow and complete this manual use FlaskMPEG multipass XiS 3.0e and CCE SP262 and bbMPEG.

First start FlaskMPEG (the one for multipass encoding) and select File - Open Media and select the file you want to encode.

Select File -> Open Media

Look at the video structure and notice the Aspect Ratio.

Rigth click at the window to get the following screen.

It is clear how to set the Start and the End position. After that you can add the current settings to a new job by pressing the Add to job list. By selecting a job, and choosing "Clear job from list" you can delete the job. After that choose Run (Test it!) and choose the audio player.

Check Dynamic Range Compression to get a louder general volume. Use the slider to set the volume level. Select the Dolby Surround downmix button. You want this to get a true Dolby Surround downmix. By available tracks you can select which track to encode.

Click OK to close the audio window. Right click again and select Run (etc) project options.

For the width choose the SVCD settings 480 and for the height choose 576 and the framerate must be 25 for a pal movie. iDCT options can be set to Auto en reconstruct progressive images can not be changed. This is only for NTSC movies.

When you are happy with your settings click the Audio tab to get the next window.

If you want to decode the audio, deselect Same as input and select Decode Audio, select the 44100 option. CCE can’t downsample the audio frequency

If satisfied then click on Post Processing.

Select YUY2 to make sure you have a fast communication between avisynth and CCE.

Deselect Keep aspect ratio and no crop and change the Height and Width to the settings seen on the picture.

Click here (red mark) to see if the settings are correct. The area which is marked will be the output of your film.

The General Tab. Here is where you set the time to encode. Also possible to compile a number of frames.

1 second of a movie is made out of 25 pictures. Simple to calculate 1 hour. 25 * 60 * 60 = 90000 frames.

You must give Flask a time or a number of frames. When selecting "Compile whole movie" flask exports 300000 frames. That’s a lot of frames and your computer will be busy for a long time.

If Overlay etc is gray, your system doesn’t support it. It will be automatically selected if you choose YuY2 format at the Post Processing Tab. On some computers you must select it manually.

Click on OK to close the window and right click again at the Flaskmpeg control panel and choose the Run(etc) again to activate the Output Plugin Options.

You will see the next window.

Select the AVIWrapper. Click on Audio Tab

Select the Save to WAV to have an audio stream that you can mux with the videostream later.

Choose the General tab.

DO NOT select the Random access !

If you want to make a film and burn the result on a CD you can split the output file by Split Source. Just fill in the number of seconds you want the file to be before Flask begins outputting to a new file. You can also cut the film afterwards with the multiplexer of BBMpeg during the multiplexing. This is easier.

For all the work Edwin did please support him and pay a little to get a Registrationcode and your popup before encoding will be gone. (Thanks Edwin)

Click OK to return to the Flask MPEG Panel

Right click on the Flask MPEG Panel and choose Run (etc) -> Start Conversion and minimize Flask MPEG. At this point you must start CCE SP 262.

You will see the next window.

Right click in the window and select the add button that you will see. Look for the IPCserver0.mpv and select it. Double click the new line to change the settings. We are going to make a VBR MPEG2 file so fill in the form as follows.

I came to the settings as follows. A total bitrate (video and Audio) of 2400. That’s what CCE can manage as max bitrate. An average of 1945. And a minimum bitrate of 0.

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