Batch encoding of DV AVIs

Thanks NM, but I meant suitable to batch-encode 

Ok, why i'm asking for a ONE STEP process, is because really I'd like to batch process the uncompressed AVI's to 50fps bob-deinterlaced CRF x264... Why? the only way to get the video separated into the various clips, is to do so while transferring from DV tape to uncompressed AVI as after transferring to the PC the time-code is lost, unless again: really complicated steps are taken including making of a special file that keeps track of the timecode and then using software compatible with that, and software compatible with that is not x264 enabled. Result: every hour of DV tape gets cut into about 50 uncompressed AVI fragments, since i have >50 tapes= over 2500 fragments. See why I don't look forward to manually using Avisynth and then x264 without a GUI that can batch process it for me?

Yep. Even a simple batch file would suffice. Your steps for each iteration would be as follows: 1) Write an AviSynth script that loads the AVI in question, and applies your desired filter chain 2) Call x264, feeding it the name of the AviSynth script as input, with your desired options, and the output file name as something similar to the input Or you could replace avisynth + x264 with ffmpeg, libav, or something similar - both of which implement libx264 and have their own deinterlacing libraries. Quality is probably not up to par with QTGMC in any case.

Thanks for the pointer Blue_MiSfit !! - I might be able to get this done the way you discribe (though i doubt without any serious setbacks) and i'll try as far as time permits, though as I have a wife asking attention, complaining when i spend hours and hours of time without visible results on the computer. Avysynth is simple but i often take hours to get the syntax right, and the plugins installed and working right. I just know I'm going to get stuck with all the (4?) dependencies i see that QTGMC relies on! some dll missing somewhere or some syntax errors i can't get my head around. My mind is not one that can easlitly wrap itself around commandline programming because often a clear instruction or syntax or 'howto' is NOT included with such software, written by geeks who think something like below commandline is *obvious* Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\ASXGui\tools\dgdecode.dll") Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\ASXGui\tools\decomb.dll") Loadplugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\autocrop.dll") DirectShowSource("D:testvid.VOB") AssumeTFF() Telecide(guide=1) Decimate(5) Lanczos4Resize(720,528) Autocrop(mode=0,threshold=18,samples=45) These kind of things (loading of plugins, the syntax etc) is NOT obvious for me... i have tried, but I got as far as making AVS files work for me, but not as far as batching them. (I do know basic DOS commands, but how to iterate or make variables, no idea!) To me such commandline programming can only be understood if i'm basically held by the hand and told what to do.. finally I ask myself why the only program (Avysinth) that CAN do what i want so damned complicated? Why is there no GUI!? I figured that I'm SURELY not to the only one with interlaced material waiting to be archived. And so I have waited and waited... and tried program after program for the functionality i'm looking for, which is de-interlace and transcode to 50fps quality based WMV/x264... I tried everything from avidemuc, avysynth, super, Megui, Handbrake, VideoStudio 9,10,12, Canopus Pro, Mainconcept, ASXGui, TMPGEnc, MEncoder, Super, Pinacle Studio & about a dozen more obscure ones like StoikVideoConverter, and my favorite: MediaCoder 6.9-7.3 (newer versions got worse) All of these have cost me thousands of hours (REALLY!) to experiment with, every one of them resulting is dissapointment concerning video editing software in general. Only the fact that most professional encoders refuse to encode to a given resolution and force you to encode to PAL/NTFS even in x264! Pathetic! Nevertheless with literally hundreds of silly to (so called) proffessional video editing softwares coming out every year, your'd think ONE atleast would have the same functionality as the batch script using Avysinth QTGMC + x264 crf encoding, you propose I write and... which i was trying to avoid...... as i don't know how to write scripts. I guess it was the same with casette tapes to mp3, I have wondered for years why No-one is coming up with a hardware device where you can enter a casette and it can encode to mp3? And for that matter, why not a hardware DV tape to HDD x264 transcoder? (I have bought 2 HDD-DVD recorders but mpg2 quality sucks) I start to think that there's just a conspiracy to prevent people from *updating* their archived material to newer formats. The only exception i have seen is my mother who has paid over 100 euro to 'convert' some of our old super8 filmrolls into DVD, but the service did a lousy job (unsharp & instead of the sound of the movie, it's silent with occasional strangely spooky sounds and unclear voices on the soundtrack) Anyway sory for kind of 'complaining'. Seriously i have thought if i only knew a programmer who can do what i want, i'd pay him to write a program to do this and do humanity a favour. (countless people don't even know what 'interlaced' is, and just use something like WMV, (which weave-blends interlaced material!) and... get stuck with below par- captures of their home-video. Cheers Everyone for being on the cutting edge of video encoding quality here!

Yeah, I think what this site needs are some more noob-friendly guides/tutorials on such very general and common issues like for example this one (getting your DV captures to a reasonable size and make them look good). Sure there are lots of very special questions which cannot be answered generally but then again I often see returning issues like this one which I think newbies (like myself) can be informed about to get a rough idea to start with.

I've broken these posts out to a new thread as they were off-topic for the original thread.