Serious avs problems

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:42 pm

Ok, I just wanted to get started with my Children project track. So far I made 24 avs files of the Rayearth TV series, all looking similar to this:

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mpeg2source("I:\AMV-Temp\Children\d2v\01.d2v")
Telecide(post=false)
Decimate(5)
AssumeFPS(24)
BicubicResize(320,240)

(the resize is just for working in premiere)

Anyway, Premiere 6.0 imported like 10 of these just fine, then it kept bringing messages like: "This file contains no video/audio or is in use"
Or it imported just fine, but after 10 files the episodes were just nothing but green or black. Or an unrecognized exception came up. Or it just crashes.

It seems that my computer runs out of ram after importing ~10 files... I tried everything explained somewhere here (various DVD2AVI versions, SetMemoryMax(16), -(8) , -(4), -(2), Avisynth 2.5x /2.0x) but nothing seems to help. Well, if limit the memory of each file it imports a little further, but then the same things happen...

I'm working on a 1 ghz Athlon Thunderbird with 256 mb sd-ram.
Is there any solution for me instead using huffyuv, buying more ram or trying to work with less episodes?

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:55 pm

Try making one D2V per set of VOBs (one d2v per one dvd of vobs)

See if that helps

Tash · Post by **Tash** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:58 pm

hm I have assume 24 at end (nothing to do with the topic but I wanna make sure it doesn't matter)

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:44 pm

Tash wrote:hm I have assume 24 at end (nothing to do with the topic but I wanna make sure it doesn't matter)

What?

And to answer the question of the thread. Most likely you're running into memory/resouce limits with AVISynth/Premiere. Do as NickD says. See if it helps.

Also I would not downsample for Premiere and then upsample once you're out of there. That is just a bad idea. If you want to speed up editing use the AVS/MJPEG swap method.

-Klinky

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 4:57 pm

klinky wrote: And to answer the question of the thread. Most likely you're running into memory/resouce limits with AVISynth/Premiere. Do as NickD says. See if it helps.

I'll try.
If it doesn't work, maybe I can merge some vobs, that should help

Thanks

Also I would not downsample for Premiere and then upsample once you're out of there. That is just a bad idea. If you want to speed up editing use the AVS/MJPEG swap method.

I'll remove the resize line once I'm done with the AMV. I'm eiditing that way because I want to work without premieres ugly resizing in the preview

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:14 pm

Why is Premiere resizing your stuff? Are you running @ a low resolution. I am probably spoiled with my spiffy 21". Still though if you have any effects which rely on height/width you might have problems when going to 640x480 footage. Though I have seen Premiere properly adjust the values before >_>. But I wouldn't rely on it...

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:53 pm

klinky wrote:Why is Premiere resizing your stuff? Are you running @ a low resolution. I am probably spoiled with my spiffy 21". Still though if you have any effects which rely on height/width you might have problems when going to 640x480 footage. Though I have seen Premiere properly adjust the values before >_>. But I wouldn't rely on it...

Well, I have a 17" @ 1024x768, so 320x240 is barely small enough to still have a good view over the timeline etc

And might be that it's gonna cause problems with some effects, I expirienced none before (mine seem to be simple enough

)

SS5_Majin_Bebi · Post by **SS5_Majin_Bebi** » Sun Jan 04, 2004 9:29 pm

JCD wrote:
klinky wrote:Why is Premiere resizing your stuff? Are you running @ a low resolution. I am probably spoiled with my spiffy 21". Still though if you have any effects which rely on height/width you might have problems when going to 640x480 footage. Though I have seen Premiere properly adjust the values before >_>. But I wouldn't rely on it...
Well, I have a 17" @ 1024x768, so 320x240 is barely small enough to still have a good view over the timeline etc
And might be that it's gonna cause problems with some effects, I expirienced none before (mine seem to be simple enough )

Bump the res up to 1280*1024. You'll get a heap of screen estate then.

And if you add

SetMemoryMax(10)

to the top of your AVS files, it will prevent AVISynth from eating your memory for breakfast.

JCD · Post by **JCD** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 12:09 pm

SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote: Bump the res up to 1280*1024. You'll get a heap of screen estate then.

But with a Geforce 2 MX things get just too unsharp

And if you add

SetMemoryMax(10)

to the top of your AVS files, it will prevent AVISynth from eating your memory for breakfast.

I've done that already with values down to 2, but it eats still too much.

Anyway, I've solved the probelm.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 4:38 pm

Worked fine for me with my Riva TNT2 board, which is AFAIK either based on the GF2 MX or is a chipset OLDER than the GF2 MX chipset.