Guide for batch processing?

WARNING - TOTAL AND COMPLETE NOOB QUESTIONS TO FOLLOW! "Batch Processing Opens the Batch Processing Panel. You can use this panel to execute several jobs in a row. To use Batch Processing you must first save a project for each job you want to run. You can then Add/Delete your projects from the Batch Processing list, then click the Process button to start." Ok, I've read this and looked at the option, but I don't think I understand what I am looking at. I have never done any kind of batch processing before, with any program. I thought I would give it a try and see how it works. I can't figure it out though! Does anyone have a step-by-step guide for batch processing? With explanations? For example, I don't know what "first save a project for each job you want to run" *means* - save it where? And how? Thanks for any help/advice all!

open your movie-files just like you always do go for the settings you'd like (i.e. choose en/transcoder etc) but DON'T start the encoding/backup now instead use => file => save project repeat these steps for all movies you#d like to encode finally start the batch function, use ADD and insert all projects you created before make sure to provide enough harddrive space and start the batch processing

Ok, thanks - that makes sense now. I'll igve it a try and see how that goes. It could probably save me a lot of time, now that I think of it, lol!

Why would I want my computer to auto-shutdown after finishing the job? Is it a convenience thing or is there some actual benefit to it? I've never been able to grasp why someone would want that setting.

So why did you have to use ReJig?

Had to use ReJig, because no matter what I do, I cannot get RBw/QuEnc to function. I've posted several long-winded explanations of what I have done to try and get it to work, but no go. I have *never* been able to get QuEnc to function with RB. I have been given all kinds of confusing advice about what to try, and I attempt to sort through it as best as possible, but "I'm a newbie" and "I'm no expert" or "I don't understand x" usually still gets me very confusing and technical answers. <shrug> I got very lucky with the batch process question though - very straight forward. Not a very technical thing though, I suppose, lol. Anyway, Saturday or Sunday I'm going to (again) try to hash my way through various QuEnc posts and reinstall various versions and see if I can't get QuEnc to work. I would really like it to, as it is the entire reason I downloaded RB in the first place. I just can't figure out what I am doing wrong, or what the program is having fits with.

Have you tried the automated installer that Rockas created?

Yes, I did. Well, first I installed it months ago "normally", and it never worked for me. Then when my HDD fried a month ago and I had to reinstall everything in the new HDD, I used the Installer. Still nothing. Runs for 16-20 hours plus, then crashes or locks up with Error 0003, or Error 0006, something else too I think, been a week or so, can't remember exactly what else it said now.