Getting watchfolders to watch

[Oceanwatcher]

Hi,

I am testing this software out and downloaded the latest version. But I am not able to get anything happening when a file is dropped in the watch folder. What could be wrong?

[admin]

Hi Svein, welcome to the forum and thank you for using FFAStrans!

First, you must make sure the workflow is saved before starting it. If it is and still not working then you can export your workflow and send it to post@ffastrans.com if you don't want it to be public.

-steipal

[Oceanwatcher]

No problem having it public And thank you for the welcome.

The software looks really promising! Will will also eventually set up a render farm that supports ffmpeg and hope it can be connected as well.

BUT - I did a really simple test.

Folder->Mpeg4->folder

I had to right click and pick a file for it to get started. And then it processed the file successfully. There were other workflow types that did not work. But none of them would pick up a new file. Will export the workflow a little later.

[admin]

Ok, It's a little hard to say what the problem is because this basic functionality usually work like it should. I'll wait until you send me the workflow to see if there is anything obvious.

-steipal

[Oceanwatcher]

Here is my current workflow. It is a little more complicated than the previous mention.

I want it to watch a folder and grab everything that is dropped into it, de-interlace it and convert it to MP4. But it is not working. What is wrong with this? Is the order of processes ok? The A/V media is only there because the system complaints if it is not there...

I have attached the workflow.

[Oceanwatcher]

Oh - by the way - the original media is exported from Avid MediaComposer as QuickTime with DNxHD 120 codec. 1080 50i.

[admin]

I've tried you workflow and it's failing with me to. It should work so there must be a bug somewhere in FFAStrans. I'm investigating.

-steipal

[admin]

It seems you have turned on "Use multithreading in AviSynth" in the "Special"-tab in the the workflow properties. Please turn it off and try again.

-steipal

[Oceanwatcher]

Looks like it worked! Will test more. I have some SD content that needs de-interlacing

Is there a way to take the SD 4x3 content and force setting the 16x9 flag? (no reformatting - it is just a playback flag).

Will check the de-interlacing. An earlier test failed to correctly do it. Could be confusion about upper/lower field.

[admin]

I'm afraid changing aspect without re-encoding is not an easy task i FFAStrans. Because FFAStrans rely on ffmpeg for most encoding and ffmpeg can't do this without re-encoding you're a bit out of luck. BUT, you might find other command driven programs that can perform this task and launch them with the "Command executor"-node. However, you will have to dig around the internet and see if you find something interesting. For example, I know that MP4Box can do it properly on .mp4 files.

Can please try and explain exactly what kind of problems you have with the deinterlacer? I didn't fully get that part...

-steipal