Aspect ratio error in Scenarist

[Sizzle]

Hello,

I'm trying to author "James Bond - the world is not enough" with Scenarist.
Used DIF4Y to extract all the assets and imported these in Scenerist.

However, while the movie is 16:9 scenarist says this PGC is a 4:3...
The VTS has 7 PGCs and scenarist sees some of them as 4:3 and the others as 16:9.
When I look at the M2Vs in DVD2AVI it says the same so how can I extract the movie in 16:9 (original) ?

Can somebody help me out here ?

[ultimatebilly]

Since dvd2avi tells you the same about the aspect ratio it seems that cce has put a wrong AR-flag into the streams...
Check the ecl-file in notepad which was generated by DIF4Y...
You can patch the m2v-files with dvdpatcher for example, look with dvd2avi which AR the original files had, and then patch the appropriate m2v-files to the same AR...
This should work...

[Sizzle]

Thanks, but that can't be it. I haven't used CCE yet.....

[ultimatebilly]

Did get that wrong...
So you just demuxed with DIF4U, right?
Weird problem, but it should be possible to solve it with patching the streams anyway...
Why don't give it a try?

[hendrix]

sounds to me that the movie may be 4:3 matted letterbox and not a 16:9 anamorphic. if it's matted then the 4:3 aspect ratio is correct the back bars on the top and bottom of the screen has been added during the editing process. not all widescreen dvds are 16:9 anamorphic - the cheaper ones are 4:3 matted.


hope this helps

[newguy007]

How would you go about importing a video file that's 4:3 matted letterbox in Scenarist? I'm not even sure what I have is in this format, but I'm having an aspect error problem when trying to backup Raging Bull NTSC. It has two versions of the movie, a Fullscreen and widescreen version, each on a separate VTS. I used Doitfast4u then used Reauthorist to take out the things I didn't need, such as the fullscreen version. Luckily I didn't have to re-encode the video file as it could fit on the single dvd-r disc. But after loading the reauthorist generated script in Scenarist, I get an import error:



Error This Video has different aspect ratio. [F:\RAGINGBULL\VTS02\VTS__02_P01.4~3_1.M2V]
Error Importing failed



Is there any way I can get this imported successfully in Scenarist?

Here's Bitrate Viewer info here and DVD2AVI information shows the Frame Rate as being "FILM 99%"

Num. of picture read: 185180
Stream type: MPEG-2 MP@ML VBR
Resolution: 720*480
Aspect ratio: 4:3 Generic
Framerate: 29.97
Nom. bitrate: 9800000 Bit/Sec
VBV buffer size: 112
Constrained param. flag: No
Chroma format: 4:2:0
DCT precision: 8
Pic. structure: Frame
Field topfirst: Yes
DCT type: Field
Quantscale: Linear
Scan type: ZigZag
Frame type: Progressive
Notes:



Thanks

P.S. I also have the same problem backing up Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid SE NTSC. Again for that I didn't have to re-encode.