seventiesfilmnut said:

Hi Arnie!

What software do you use for your encodes, in conjunction with CCE?

VirtualdubMpeg (but just to test the filters), dvddecrypther (only once, to rip the vobs to hdd), vobedit (to demux the vobs and split them at the vob ids to remove the first 13 or so frames of nothingness), dgindex (to create the .d2v files for avisynth), Avisynth (for the filtering), and DVD-lab pro to author the final dvd). Oh, and excel to convert frame numbers (=chapterpoints) to timecode.
Normally I split up my avisynth script into 2 parts. Part 1 contains all the filtering. Part 2 only the addborders and subtile part. I use part 1 to create an avi file and part 2 to feed the avi file to CCE. Otherwise for a 10-pass encode the PC has to also filter the raw .m2v files 10 times. This way only once.