Error importing movie into scenarist.

[Menion]

After succesfully reauthored commercial dvds several times I find it rather straightforwad and decided to try something new. I want to make my own dvd with my own menues and stuff. I got hold of some divx'es of my favorite show Friends and decided to do an season 9 dvd. (Yes divx quality is bad I know, I'm doing this on my own and for fun not for reselling!). I might be a newbie but I want to learn!

For converting the divx to mpeg2 I use Avisynth -> CCE. (CCE settings after the CCE Guide on Doom9) The problem comes when importing the m2v to Scenarist I get the error message
"Error : Frame rate (4 = reserved) is wrong.".
The divx framerate is 29.970 FPS, I do not know how to tell CCE this (in the avisynth script?) but I figure the framerate is not DVD standard. I've tried to run pulldown on it, same error! Any ideas?

Also, in my avisynth script I have the line "BicubicResize(720,576)" but the m2v file turns out to be 768 x 576 when watching it in windows media player, what's up with this?

Thanks for any help!

[Zeul]

you need to run pulldown on the new m2v file, to drop frames, fps then becomes 23.976 which scenarist will need.

[Menion]

Yes, I did run pulldown with the -framerate 23.976 command on the m2v I also tryed other pulldown commands with no success. When importing the m2v I ran pulldown on into scenarist I get the following error: "Error : Frame rate (1 = 24 000+1001(23.976)) is wrong."

Any ideas what might be wrong? I cant find any help on scenarist error messages in the pdf manual nor the net.

[Eyes`Only]

I'm not an expert on PAL by any means, but from what I can see you are trying to do a NTSC to PAL conversion at the same time you are doing a divx to DVDr conversion.

From my understanding, your fps should be 25 not 23.97. Just a thought.

[oddyseus]

There r some errors in it.

1. U r using NTSC frame rate. 29.97 is the correct one that u can use and Scenarist accepts.

2. 720x576, as eyes only correctly spotted is Pal resolution. U cant have both of them at the same time.

Now if u r doing this in NTSC, aim for 720x480 and 29.97fps
If u r on Pal, use 720x576 and 25fps.

if u have ntsc footage that u want to convert to Pal, search the fora. There r excellent threads about the conversion and steps needed.

[Menion]

Gee how stupid of me, Big mistake I didn't care to check I had the right resolution, I'm so used to doing PAL.
Thanks alot!