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Old 1st August 2019, 22:35   #3230  |  Link
manolito
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@ red5goahead

Nice to see you back so soon...

Yes, in AVStoDVD you can edit the source, but you can only cut away one section at the start and another section at the end. No splicing together multiple parts. This is how you do it:

Load your source and click "View/Edit Title Settings -> AviSynth". Untick automatic script creation and press the Preview button at the lower left. Now you have two additional buttons "[" and "]" which let you set the start and end frames. Close the preview window, now you will notice a new Trim command at the end of the script.

Usually using HCenc is preferred over FFmpeg. By default FFmpeg only allows basic CBR encodes without B-Frames. This will only give you good quality at very high bitrates, and this is how AVStoDVD uses it by default. But you can also use FFmpeg in 1-pass and 2-pass VBR modes by installing my VBR plugin:
https://files.videohelp.com/u/172211...D%20Plugins.7z
It is almost identical to the DVDStyler plugin. Only there is no integration into the software, users have to edit a batch file with NotePad to change settings.


For using the script to interlace 50fps sources, don't forget to also set "Interlaced TFF" flags for the encoder. After editing the scipt go to the Video tab, uncheck Automatic and tick "Interlaced -> TFF". If you forget this, the encoder will encode the (now interlaced) source using progressive settings, very bad for the quality.

I do have my doubts if MrC will agree to make this automatic, though. It is not too common creating an interlaced DVD from a progressive source. Then having a 50fps progressive source means mostly that the broadcaster just inserted duplicate frames. At least for film sources which were originally shot at 24fps the broadcaster just speeds it up to 25fps and then inserts a repeated frame for every source frame. In such cases interlacing it makes no sense. Users would have to analyze the source first before making a decision about interlacing it or not.


Cheers
manolito


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but you can only cut away one section at the start and another section at the end. No splicing together multiple parts.
Actually there is an easy workaround for this restriction. It uses VirtualDub together with a simple tool called VCF2AVS. Basically you just load your source into VDub, do all your edits, then save your work into a VCF configuration file with "Save Processing Settings". VCF2AVS converts this into an AVS file which has all the necessary Trim commands in it. Paste these Trim commands to the end of your AVS script in AVsToDVD...

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