Avisynth: am I Doing this Right?

[PlaiBoi]

I opened FitCD, loaded my *.d2v file, located my mpeg2dec.dll file, selected XVCD as my destination, and unchecked "optimize for CCE" (since ill be using TMPGEnc).

Here is my script:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD Ripping\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("C:\Documents and Settings\Hassib Kadir\Desktop\Enemy of the State\Enemy of the State.d2v")
BilinearResize(672,448,0,0,720,480)
#TemporalSmoother(2,2)
AddBorders(16,16,16,16)
#Trim(0,19008.FadeOut(150)
#ResampleAudio(44100) # CCE 2.5 'crashfix' for Athlons
#== If you want this 'fix' permanently, edit the INI-file:
#== Under [AVSscript] set the CCEcrashfix-option to
#== CCEcrashfix=1

Did i do this correctly? Is everything setup right? This movie is 2 hours and 12 min. so im going to be using the KVCDx2 2-CD template. Also, what does "TemporalSmoother" do? I've heard alot of talk about this, but dont know exactly what it does.

Any help would be REALLY appreciated, please let me know if theres something wrong here, as i dont want to encode for 14 hours and then find out i messed up. Thanx!

btw, i encoded a 15 sec. clip using the avs script and i found out that it cuts off some movie from the left, right, top, and bottom, why? So, it just adds more blackspace? how can that be an advantage?

[rendalunit]

hey,

Your .avs looks ok to me. TemporalSmoother cleans up some of the noise in the avi and makes the encoded mpg a little smaller in size- just remove the # in front of the temporalsmoother to enable it. Also it's adding borders probably because you have blocks tv- overscan set to 2. If you set it to 0 then it won't add such large borders. I'm not sure what blocks tv- overscan is for.

[gll99]

I believe, that blocks "tv overscan" just means that when you use a capture card you often have scan lines showing at the top or bottom of the capture. This would be very visible when you view the movie and you won't have to ask if you need it. The capture frame is not clean on the top and or bottom edge. If you are using a DVD rip as a source you would not need this.

[rendalunit]

hey thanx Gll99,

that makes sense- another setting in the mpeg resizing section of FitCD that I've been wondering about is the format conversion check box. Any idea what this one does?

thanks
ren

[gll99]

My best untried guess:
Seems to be to convert from ntsc to pal or maybe vis versa.
Just look at the destination size when you click on the box.
Mine goes from 480 to 576. Seem familiar?

[rendalunit]

ah ha! Mine goes from 480 to 576 and also 240 to 288 so that must be what it is!! I guess I won't be using that button since I only use ntsc.

thanks for the explanations

[Smoochie3]

blocks tv overscan just cuts off the part of the picture that get cut off by the tv. So, basically you wont be using any bits for the part of the picture you wont see, because the tv cuts it off anyway. While you encode you will see the black bars on the sides, but when you burn it and watch it on your tv, you wont see the black bars on the sides.