Vegas2Handbrake setup help?

prairiedogpics wrote on 11/26/2015, 11:58 AM
Happy Thanksgiving from her in the US!

Just upgraded to Vegas 13 from Vegas 10 and am trying to get this Vegas2Handbrade script to work...:
http://www.vegasvideo.de/vegas-2-handbrake-en

I know it's been discussed a lot her, but after two hours, I must ask why do I keep get this error when I launch it:

Error: Directory does not exist C:\frameserver\source"

What is "source"? There is no source subfolder in the C:\frameserver folder...

Am I supposed to change something in the start_vegas2handbrake.bat located in c:\frameserver\batch?

Here is text of that batch file:

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timeout /t 1 /nobreak
start "" "C:\frameserver\batch\enter.exe"
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
:vegasavi
for /f %%i in ("C:\frameserver\source\vegas.avi") do if %%~zi gtr 160000 goto checkframeserver
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
goto vegasavi
:checkframeserver
for %%F in ("C:\frameserver\source\vegas.avi") do set filesize1=%%~zF
timeout /t 5 /nobreak
for %%F in ("C:\frameserver\source\vegas.avi") do set filesize2=%%~zF
if %filesize2% gtr %filesize1% goto checkframeserver
:avfs
pfm register C:\frameserver\avfs.dll
timeout /t 3 /nobreak
pfm mount C:\frameserver\vegas.avs
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
:handbrake
for /f %%i in ("C:\Volumes\vegas.avs\vegas.avi") do if %%~zi gtr 160000 goto hbstart
timeout /t 2 /nobreak
goto handbrake
:hbstart
start handbrake "C:\Volumes\vegas.avs\vegas.avi"
:waitforhandbrake
timeout /t 3 /nobreak
tasklist | findstr /i "Handbrake.exe"
if %errorlevel%==0 goto stop
goto waitforhandbrake
:stop
start "" "C:\frameserver\batch\stop_render.exe"

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prairiedogpics wrote on 11/26/2015, 12:35 PM
Okay, so I guess the trick to the first question is that you have to create a "source" folder in C:\frameserver, and test Frameserver to render to the C:\frameserver\source folder with vegas.avi as the output file. Done.
Also, change the two "c:\volumes..." lines below to "c:\frameserver...

Now I run the script and I don't get the above errors, but now the script just keeps looping this (copied from the command line):

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Waiting for 0 seconds, press CTRL+C to quit ...

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>goto handbrake

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>for /F %i in ("C:\frameserver\vegas.avs\veg
as.avi") do if %~zi GTR 160000 goto hbstart

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>if GTR 160000 goto hbstart

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>timeout /t 2 /nobreak

Waiting for 0 seconds, press CTRL+C to quit ...

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>goto handbrake

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>for /F %i in ("C:\frameserver\vegas.avs\veg
as.avi") do if %~zi GTR 160000 goto hbstart

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>if GTR 160000 goto hbstart

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>timeout /t 2 /nobreak

Waiting for 0 seconds, press CTRL+C to quit ...

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>goto handbrake

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>for /F %i in ("C:\frameserver\vegas.avs\veg
as.avi") do if %~zi GTR 160000 goto hbstart

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>if GTR 160000 goto hbstart

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>timeout /t 2 /nobreak

Waiting for 0 seconds, press CTRL+C to quit ...

C:\Program Files\Sony\Vegas Pro 13.0>goto handbrake

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Any ideas what the problem is now?
prairiedogpics wrote on 11/26/2015, 1:05 PM
Basically, Handbrake is not launching, version 10 or version 9.9. Tried both. I'm using Vidmus' modified start_vegas2handbrake.bat and unmount.bat.

Marco. wrote on 11/26/2015, 2:47 PM
" I'm using Vidmus' modified start_vegas2handbrake.bat and unmount.bat."

The files currently offered by my website were already updated. Vidmus' modifications are implemented there and some other ones which optimize the scripts to the file mount system build 178. So I recommend using the files offered by VegasVideo.de now.

If you downloaded the given files, unzipped them and moved the folder "frameserver" to C:\ there will be no need to manually create a "source" folder because it is already in there.

Be sure to use the Pismo File Mount files of build 178 and therefor don't(!) modify the script lines including "C:\Volumes\" because this syntax is strongly needed by this Pismo system version.
If you delete the "Volumes" syntax and both use this Pismo system version, HandBrake will never start because it would not find the folder needed.

I'm not sure if there is a newer version of Pismo File Mount meanwhile. If so – I don't know if there are further script modifications needed. I decided not to update this workflow anymore, so to be sure, use Pismo File Mount build 178 and the given workflow files from VegasVideo.de without any modification.

Maybe it's better to start anew, delete all present files, download them anew to be sure them are unaltered and going through the website's guidance step by step.

prairiedogpics wrote on 11/26/2015, 3:51 PM
Thanks, Marco!

I did uninstall and re-install and now it's working.
I think I discovered the reason...I had downloaded a copy of your .zip last May, just to look at it. I took the "frameserver" folder from that OLD copy (which did not have a "source" folder within it) and had been trying to use that.

Working like a charm now with the newer folder/files. Thx!