Hi all,

I have an Adaptec Videoh! capture board. I capture at 3mb per second (NTSC, composite video). Then I try to encode that MPEG to VCD compliant MPEG and at the very end of the encoding process, Panasonic (version 2.3, stand alone program) gives me this error message:

Can not get a frame data from a material file. Encoding aborted.

What does this error mean? How do i prevent it? My video clip is 10 seconds long but i have tried longer and shorter clips. It seems the only way to fix the problem is convert it to a PAL VCD compliant MPEG file. The results are pretty good but I want to try it with NTSC encoding.

Any suggestions?

Also, what are the best filtering options for Panasonic Encoder 2.3?

-- MrVCD (mrvcd@juno.com), February 24, 2000

Answers

oh i have posted results for this problem a few times. Ok i dont know what it really means but it will cut the last 2 seconds off your clip. I fixed it before by doing this, whatever is the last frame rate from your source (ex: on the panasonic it will say from frame 1 to 1234 on the output and source screen). here is what you do(or what i did and it seemed to work) i changed the last didgit on the outframe down by one number (so its like this instead of 1 to 1234, i made it 1 to 1233, this seemd to fix the problem) OR you can just record roughly an extra 2 seconds of whatever and this footage will be cut

-- Doug (mazinz@aol.com), February 24, 2000.

Doug this sort of thing is common in files which you do not actually complete during the process. Let me explain by example: When generating an avi to encode I got exactly the same results if I actually stopped the avi render before it got to the end. In the Panasonic stand alone I cut about 5 frames from the length and bingo not a problem. Yes I have seen your reply on this several times but I have never commented before. This is in support from another hands on experience.

Even when doing a from the timeline encode I have had similar results if I stopped short of the full length encode.

Its a good policy once you have experienced this to always encode 5 or so frames less because some funny things can happen at the end of an encode and to get "encode aborted" after a 17 hour session soon makes you learn to develop a get around and apply it all of the time.

-- Ross McL (rmclennan@esc.net.au), February 25, 2000.