Send2HandBrake Question

Jep wrote on 12/11/2018, 4:33 AM

First my basic system - Windows 10 Pro 64bit, Intel i7-7820X CPU, 32Gb Ram, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Graphics card. Vegas Pro 13 64bit (build 453). System drive 237Gb SSD with 164Gb free space.

I'm trying to use Send2HandBrake to frameserve a very big file to HandBrake. The file I'm working with is a lossless .avi and is 128Gb in size and 4 hours 16 minutes in length.

After I hit the Send2HandBrake icon, Vegas goes through the usual process of writing a signpost avi file. The Frameserving notification then pops up, but Handbrake will not open no matter how long I wait. My best guess is that there is not enough space on my C drive for the full signpost avi file to be written, and because of that Handbrake can't read it and will not open. I should say that Send2Handbrake normally works very well with smaller videos, and also I can get it to work with just a short section of the avi file I'm working with.

So I'm wondering if editing the Send2Handbrake script so that it writes the signpost avi to a different hard drive with more space might solve the problem. I'd be interested in your views, and in particular what I'd need to change in the Send2Handbrake script. Presumably I'd also need to set up the frameserver folder on the drive I want to work with.

TIA

Comments

Marco. wrote on 12/11/2018, 6:10 AM

If there is is just one lossless AVI file then there is no need to use Vegas2HandBrake. Better feed HandBrake directly with this file without using Vegas Pro.

You could adopt this workflow to look for the folder at another path, but it is not just one but several files which would need to be modified. Better check the space of your C:\ drive first. The signpost file is an audio only file, it should be less than 1 GB per hour, about 3 GB for 4 hours.

Development of Vegas2HandBrake is terminated meanwhile There is a much better tool outside now, Happy Otter Scripts, see -> here.

Jep wrote on 12/11/2018, 7:00 AM

If there is is just one lossless AVI file then there is no need to use Vegas2HandBrake. Better feed HandBrake directly with this file without using Vegas Pro.

You could adopt this workflow to look for the folder at another path, but it is not just one but several files which would need to be modified. Better check the space of your C:\ drive first. The signpost file is an audio only file, it should be less than 1 GB per hour, about 3 GB for 4 hours.

Development of Vegas2HandBrake is terminated meanwhile There is a much better tool outside now, Happy Otter Scripts, see -> here.

Many thanks Marco. The main reason I wanted to use Send2HandBrake was that I wanted to trim a few minutes of the beginning and about an hour off the end of the video. I didn't realise I could do that directly in HandBrake until I read your post and Googled it. So - problem solved! Many thanks.

Also had a look at Happy Otter Scripts - looks really interesting. I've signed up and DLed the trial version and will have lot of playing around to look forward to over the next couple of weeks.