Scenarist re-authoring: audio tracks a few frames shorter at demux, SEEMLESS CHAPTER

[drpaulng]

After use of "DOITFAST4U" as well as some of the software available (VobUtils.exe/Vobedit.exe/MPEG Tool of TMPGEnc...) to break down the vob's into cell-id chapters. I tried to re-author them by putting the demuxed .m2v and .ac3 files together again. When the "seemless" flag is activated for the series of chapter-scenes, however, error messages appears to tell me that the audio tracks are a few frames shorter than the video stream (both the .m2v and .ac3 were derived from the same set of vobs').

Is there anybody who has the solution to this "chopping down-then-re-assembly" problem?

Thank you.

[TRILIGHT]

You can't set the seamless flag if you are using any dummy audio files. Are you?

[drpaulng]

If the DVD is ripped by cell ID (chapter by chapter), when being put back together, the audio tracks and video tracks are recombined but usually has some frame number differences (though they are demuxed from the same VOB-chapter). So I re-ripped the DVD by making the whole VOB track joined together. Used Scenchap to get the chapter points. Then used Export/Import procedure to re-author the DVD (It is hard to grasp the method initially to figure out how to drag the track from the Track Editor to the Scenario Editor) to complete the re-authoring. Without somebody with experience on this, I took a lot of time trying out the drag-and-drop things.

Thank you anyway.

[TRILIGHT]

Sounds like you were trying to do things the "hard way". ;) It is extremely rare that you would be forced to extract and reauthor by cell ID. It's almost always acceptable to do things by PGC or VOBID.

[drpaulng]

Indeed Scenarist is very hard to learn all by myself. The procedure manual is never enough and there seems no books available on this software. Some small details should be mentioned carefully for new users at particular points such as the chapter making.