AVIDeFreezer Tutorial

This tutorial will explain how to use the AVIDeFreezer program to remove freezing frames in your movies. Be aware that the program is in the testing phase and might not work properly with all movies. It's also a good idea to have VirtualDub, since that's the program I'll be using to find the bad frames in this tutorial.

1. First open virtualdub and click "Open Video File" in the File menu.

2. When you have opened the file, use the slider to get near the place with the bad frames, then click play. When the program gets to the bad frame it will give you an error like below.

3. Now click previous keyframe, and make a note of the frame number, this number should be entered as the start frame in the AVIDeFreezer.

4. Now click next keyframe untill you get to a working frame, normally this should be the first keyframe, but sometimes when a movie is really fucked up it can be more. Make a note of this frame number too, this will be used as the end frame in the AVIDeFreezer.

5. If the movie has more than one place with bad frames return to 2 and do this for every bad frame.

6. When you have found all bad frames start AVIDeFreezer.

7. First open the original file and choose a location for the new file, don't try to overwrite the original file, since that will cause problems.

8. Now enter the start and end frame for all the bad frames you found using virtualdub, my example is a version of Wild Things which I got from another site, and as you can see I was very unlucky, this movie had 5 bad frames.

9. When you have entered all bad frames click DeFreeze and the program will start working, the first part where it fixes all the bad frames is pretty fast, but when it gets to "Writing Streams To New File" it will work for a while depending on the size of the movie and the speed of your harddisk, this is because it is copying the original file to the new file, except for the bad frames which are now fixed.

10. When the program has finished writing the new file it will crash, but don't worry the new file is ok and working. I can't figure out why it crashes when it is finsished, but my programs seems to be crashing a lot lately :).

11. When you watch the movie the frames that where bad before may have some small errors (see below), but they won't freeze anymore, and you didn't need to cut them out.