Fast Motion Video...?

[matrix]

Hi everybody.
This is my problem. I am doing motion menus for my movies using Avisynth, and for some reason I get sort of fast motion video on my thumbnails. It might have something to do with the pulldown performed when I encoded the movie, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I red the forums, and I can't seem to find enybody having the same problem.
What I could find out though, is that it can be slowed down, but I don't know how. Now, I don't know if this thread belongs here, but since I'm using avisynth to do it, I thought I'd ask the question here.
I would really appreciate any sugestions.

Thanks
matrix

[dividee]

Not sure if it would work, but you can try adding ConvertFPS(29.97) at then end of your script (if it's not already there, else forget it).

[matrix]

Thanks for the reply dividee, it is allready 29.97. I might have to live with it, if there's no other way. I'll keep on reading the forums. Who knows.

[TRILIGHT]

I don't know the exact problem you're having so this suggestion may be way off but at least it's something else you might try. You could use the pulldown.exe utility with the -framerate 23.976 switch and it will convert you to a 23.976fps framerate. Just a thought. Also, use -nopulldown if you don't want to perform pulldown on the clip.

[matrix]

Yes, thanks for the suggestion. The problem is I don't know how to use command line programs.
I did someting else,
(LoadPlugin("C:\Movie\InverseTelecine\Donald Graft\decomb.dll")
FieldDeinterlace(DirectShowSource("C:\Movie\chapters.mpg"))
AssumeFPS(23.976)
Then I encoded it again at 29.97,together with the audio. It worked, but with some quality loss.
Well, I guess can't have everything.
Thanks again
matrix

[TRILIGHT]

You can get a copy of it HERE (http://home.concepts.nl/~hzon00008/bin/pulldown.zip).

As for using it, it's not difficult. The easiest thing to do, since your system is already set up with a "path" to it, is to place pulldown.exe in your C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT directory. Then you can use it from anywhere. Go to the directory your file is in and type this...
pulldown inputfilename.mpg outputfilename.mpg -nopulldown -framerate 23.976

...and watch it go to work. :)

[matrix]

Thanks a lot Trilight, I appreciate taking the time to guide me a little through this process. The program seems to work, still I couldn't do anything because(I belive) the file doesn't have any audio. Well, it's an mpg file but encoded without the audio. If I do it with audio, the video finishes, and the audio keeps on going for a few more seconds. So the pulldown exe tells me the file is not an mpeg video stream.
I have to do something else. Mabe extract the video for the thumbnails with another prg. (It was extracted with virtual dub)
I tried before doing it with bbmpeg, but for some reason I get avisynth access violations every time I use d2v files.
Anyway, thanks again, and I'll see what else I can do.

matrix