Thanks for the help guys. Like I said earlier, I just followed Oldschooljedi's tutorial, adding filters here and there when HCenc obviously was looking for something that wasn't in my plugins folder yet. I've only got a few hours left before the encode is done, so I'll just wait to see what it churns out.

Aside from OSJ's tutorial, is there another, perhaps more current, set of instructions for applying gforce's script to the GOUT? I'm pretty green when it comes to programs like avisynth, virtualdub, and so on, and a nice step-by-step tutorial would be grand for me and others of my kind (i.e., encoding noobs).