VSO Software Forum

[marv70]

Suggestions for CxD5
I like your software very much. The only two things I would like to see, other than what has already been promised in CxD5 is more control over subtitles, letting them run as they were created and not trimming them arbitrarily, and two, having a way to crop the video like in Wondershare Video Converter. I capture video from the TV news (usually reviews of exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum) to show to children and would like to crop the news crawl off the bottom of the frame. I have to rip the video twice which if CxD5 had this feature—I would only have to rip it once.

I respect your taking you time to make a perfect CxD5 product. I hate to beta test half-baked stuff that I don’t know what to do with. Thank you for your effort—it is well appreciated!
Marvin

[ckhouston]

This should have been posted in the CX2D version 5 forum but I'm not going to move it.

Keep in mind that some properties of subtitles cannot be applied in DVDs unless they are hard coded into your source file video stream.

CX2D already can crop your video -- see the help file Index for Video resize method. However, you will didstort the picture if you simply crop part of the bottom. Post in the CX2D ver 4 forum and include a snapshot/capture of a typical scene if you want help with cropping without introducing didtortion.

[lunarsoul]

I just hope CxD5 will be able to support 10bit encode conversions.

[Zearth]

^^ agree with lunarsoul, coz lately I've downloaded tv show, anime, etc in mkv with encoding 10bit and I just realised CXD 4 can't convert it to dvd. I have to use other software like format factory to re-encode it to avi, its a shame coz I hate losing more image quality.

[VSO-Translator]

Hello!

Also the PAL Speedup is a bit weird, the picture is stucking sometimes on TV after convert video to dvd format. In other words - it doesn't plays smoothly in slow movie sequences, 'cause of the PAL speedup...

So I have to PAL speedup my videos files first with eac3to, then the movie plays smoothly on the TV also in slow video sequences!

Happens often with MKV and/or AVI files who haves 23,976 fps!

Hope you can fix also this bug...

greetZ
VSO-Translator

[JJ]

Converting from NTSC to PAL usually goes almost without problems, one frame needs to be added for each second of original video.
Sadly it can never be completely fluent, specially in panning scenes. There simply is no data to fill in properly between two frames, only way currently is to copy one frame. I haven't yet seen program that can create new frame so that user does not notice it. Maybe in few years computers have enough power to calculate and create that, but so far we just need to wait.

Same applies to 23.976 to 29.97 NTSC, even worse actually as there will be four new frames inserted each second.

Using speed-up this problem is not noticeable, but it shortens the movie and pitches audio up when 25 frames of original is played in one second instead of 23.976. Movie running time is shortened by approx 2.5 seconds for each minute of original runtime, one hour original will be played in 57 minutes 54 seconds. Some sayt that it is not a problem, but personally I hate it....

[VSO-Translator]

Sadly it can never be completely fluent

And why I was able to make my movies fluent with eac3to?!

Regards,
VT

[JJ]

You said yourself:

I have to PAL speedup my videos files first with eac3to

Check total length of movie after that operation ...

[VSO-Translator]

Yah, I know it that it is shorter in lenght... and what do you want to say me with that?

[JJ]

That just shows that eac3to did not convert at all; it just plays movie faster, shortening lenght and raising pitch.

[peleus]

I was just wondering on which of these suggestions were added to the current version.

[Zearth]

- add the ability to convert 10bit video
- make like winavi that can convert.ass sub/.ssa sub without dispalying error (winavi blur that part to hide it)
- double the speed time to convert
that's all

[lucky8]

-It will be nice to add options for audio synchronisation purposes. Right now If I choose to add 25fps audio track ( extracted from DVD for example ) to MKV 23.97 fps (video source file) there will be slight sound delay.
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