Problems with abcAVI and VirtualDub

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Problems with abcAVI and VirtualDub

Postby Rozard » Wed Jan 08, 2003 4:12 pm

I'm on the last step of my newest video, and I've run into a road block. I've followed AD & ErMaC's guides, I'm editing in 24 fps and all, and I've exported my project in Huffyuv without audio, with plans to add it in VirtualDub.

Now, after exporting the finished project, I opened it in VirtualDub, and everything worked fine. It was still in 24 fps, so I proceeded to open up abcAVI and force 23.976 fps. After doing so, I open the file in VirtualDub again, but it gives me this error:

This AVI file doesn't have a movie data block (movi)!

Obviously, I don't know what this means, or what to do for that matter. Has anyone else come across this? Better yet, how do I overcome this? Just for reference, I'm using VirtualDub 1.4.11
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Postby AbsoluteDestiny » Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:14 pm

That's really odd.

I'm guessing abcAVI must be changing something in the avi that vdub doesnt like... but that kinda sucks, I'll have to look into it.

What I recommend doing is making an avisynth script to import your 24fps avi into vdub as 23.976 like this:

AVIsource("c:/yourvid.avi")
AssumeFPS(23.976)

That should work fine.

I wouldn't recommend forcing the framerate in vdub as it doesn't always work. I'll have a look at abcAVI and see if I can get the same error.
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Postby Rozard » Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:21 pm

Thanks, I'll try that tonight after I get back from the movies. :D

Just out of curiousity, how horrible would it be if I exported my project so it's 29.97 fps? I know it won't look quite as perfect, but will it look noticibly bad?
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Postby klinky » Wed Jan 08, 2003 6:41 pm

DO NOT DO IT O_O!


Premiere would interpolate your frames and it has horrible frame interpolation. You'd be better off just slapping the audio into Premiere in it's original form and exporting @ 23.98fps, but just don't do that. Just try assumeFPS, that should work.


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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Wed Jan 08, 2003 10:28 pm

Heh heh, on "Heroes", I forgot to make my intro 23.976fps, so VDub wouldn't read it.

I have a 29.97fps video stream and a 23.976fps video stream inside of one 29.97fps stream. :P
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