Help with VDub/Zarx video format error

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:40 pm

(As always, sorry if this has been answered before. The Search function doesn't appear to be working for me right now.)

So I'm attempting to insert the leaders on the AMV I'm submitting to a contest. I'm following the instructions given in the Convention Submission Guide, but I keep hitting a snag. Whenever I try to pull up the AVISynth script in either VirtualDubMod or Zarx, I get this message:

"Splice: Video formats don't match
C:\pathname\filename, line 4" (Since I don't want to put the real info here. I will if asked.)

Here is the AVISynth script I'm working with. I know I'm missing something, but my eyes may be fried from working with Premiere over the past several days to finish the vid. Could someone help me?

AVISource("C:\pathname\filename")ConvertToYV12()
video=last
leader=BlankClip(300,720,480,"RGB32",29970,1000,48000,true,true,000000)
leader++last++leader

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:45 pm

Just gonna wager a guess, but it might be the fact that the video (last) is in YV12 colorspace while the leader is in RGB32.

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:50 pm

LivingFlame wrote:Just gonna wager a guess, but it might be the fact that the video (last) is in YV12 colorspace while the leader is in RGB32.

Funny thing is, I took the YV12 part out, and it still gave me the error. However, I just tried using the YV12 in the leader portion as well as the last portion, and it gave me a "Video formats don't match" error.

I don't think the coding likes me. o.O

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:57 pm

There is something different in your BlankClip from your video. The sound settings might be different, the size might be off, the color format, something. They both need to be exactly the same for Splice() to work (the command ++ in AVIsynth is just shorthand for Splice(clip1, clip2)).

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:00 am

Are you sure "video" isn't the variable (as opposed to "last")?
Making it, leader++video++leader ?

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:02 am

...Yeah, that was a fix I tried, found it didn't work, and forgot to change back. Stupid me.

I'll take a look at the settings and see if there's anything strange.

LivingFlame · Post by **LivingFlame** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:09 am

And you are 100% sure that your video is 720x480, 29.97 fps? You're sure you didn't do anything to change those values (like IVTC'ing or cropping/resizing before you edited the video)?

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 12:28 am

Yes. Everything comes up as 720 x 480. I've even tried other framerates and everything...still no dice.

Could it have to do with how it was saved? I was looking at how I saved the AMV file, and I found that I've been saving in the "Typical" export way from Premiere Elements, as the other ways were giving errors. (Which I intend to correct by re-compressing all my clips into Lagarith.)

Sheesh, I think this is going to be a bit of a long night.

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:55 am

So, an update to what I've been doing on this.

I went ahead and re-saved all my clips into Lagarith, then re-imported them into Premiere. I was able to save as the guide suggested I save, including making sure everything was spot-on in terms of framerate and such.

So now I go to open it, and I get the "Video Formats don't match" error on the Splice command line. So I'm wondering what to do now.

Also, is Lagarith an RGB colorspace?

Anyway, I guess I'll sleep on this and see if it won't cooperate tomorrow.

Kevmaster · Post by **Kevmaster** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 3:48 am

Angelic_Sabyne wrote:Also, is Lagarith an RGB colorspace?

it can be RGB or YV12.