the Encoded Video File only Shows a Black Screen?

[b00n]

Allright folks, get back on your seats.

I'm talking about the trailer for the second LOTR movie.

It's in .mov format and plays in a frame (in a bigger picture).
I can open the movie with TMPGEnc without any problems, and I can see the movie in clip frame settings etc.

Problem is: the encoded file only shows a black screen.

I will waste some effort on this, but if anybody has got any hints on how to solve that problem I'd be grateful.

Some details:
- the movie stream itself is 24fps, but the whole frame runs at 60fps (at least TMPGEnc says so)
- there are quite a lot of settings in the QuickTime player. Looks like the .mov file is actually composed of several streams.
- my TV-Out only shows the actual trailer, no frame.

Everyone is invited.

Thanks,
b00n.

[kwag]

Load your .mov first. THEN load your template. Then encode.
In that order.
Don't load your source after you load the template.

-kwag

[b00n]

Ah. You are referring to the 60fps, right?

I did set the fps down to 23,x again after loading the source .mov.

That was not the problem.


Thanks anyways,
b00n

[kwag]

Quote:

Originally Posted by b00n

Ah. You are referring to the 60fps, right?

I did set the fps down to 23,x again after loading the source .mov.

That was not the problem.


Thanks anyways,
b00n

Ok. I thought that's what it was. Then maybe your source is RGB? Try and process it through an .avs script, and add this line to your script:
ConvertToYUY2()
After the line that loads the source.

-kwag

[b00n]

Uhmm...

How do I open a .mov file with AviSynth ?
DirectShowSource didn't work.

Seems a filter is missing...

[kwag]

Quote:

Originally Posted by b00n

Uhmm...

How do I open a .mov file with AviSynth ?
DirectShowSource didn't work.

Seems a filter is missing...

Or can you open it with Vdub and frameserve to TMPEG?

-kwag

[b00n]

Problem solved.

I activated DirectShowFilter in TMPGEnc in addition to Quicktime Reader and it worked.

This totally eludes me, but well...