Quick way to change .m2v to .mpv?

[Chubmeister]

I have a dvd that does not require shrinking, but the subs are terrible, too large and a bad colour.

I processed everything using DOITF4U but it wont import m2v files, is there a way of getting an mpv without re-encoding in BatchCCEws?

thanks

[muppets]

Just rename the files into *.mpv, that's all ;)

muppets

[Trahald]

and for the non-pal.. the filename for nopulldown files you just rename extension to mpv... for files without nopull in the filenames (film) you would change the m2v to mpv.m2v

[Chubmeister]

I thought that, just rename it, but it says on import to scenarist that the file is not compatable and imports as a place holder, what am I doing wrong? it juts hangs when i try and change from place holder.

[Trahald]

what error are you getting? (scenarist usually gives you more information than just file not compatible) also.. are you importing with a scenaid script or a reauthorist script? or manually?

[Chubmeister]

I think I renamed wrong way round, had .m2v.mpv, changed it and it imported OK, but it took ages, like I had a dozen other apps running.

When I highlighted the tracks to check subs in simulation, again, took ages, got a look at one sub, then locked again.

Going to re-rip and try again cos I messed about with names and scripts, exactly what should I change the m2v files to? there is just one main movie m2v, and one no-cce m2v, do i have to change the .vifs also?

Using DOITF4U 1.4.7, scenaid 1 (pre 7) and scenarist 2.7, havent tried creating manually in scenarist yet, have to rack my brains, been a long time since I used to do that :P

thanks Trahald

Chubs

[D3s7]

Chubs if your in NTSC land you can't drop a 23.976 FPS asset into scenarist w/out pulling it down which could be part of your problem.

I don't believe that the actual filename matters but I could be wrong on that....

I've also have seen Scenarist freek out if you drop a hybrid asset in there (29.97 and 23.976 mix)

[Chubmeister]

@D3s7

In PAL land, but never checked what the source was.

Its worked now after processing from scratch.

Scenaid imported the m2v file as placeholder as it was searching for a .mpv.m2v file. Now the mistake I made the first time was to point scenarist to the m2v file which it didnt like, just hung. So I changed the script to just look for the original m2v file, fresh import into scenarist and it came in fine, fixed the awful subs (would have been nice to be able to shrink them), compiled and burned, all great.

So why did scenaid make the script look for a .mpv.m2v file that didnt exist? Is is something to do with the NSTC thing?

Thanks all for help.

Chubs

[D3s7]

if your in PAL land the framerate is always 25fps..

It should have looked for the .mpv not a .mpv.m2v.. interesting... i'll have to doublecheck the code

did this on all your assets or just 1?

[Chubmeister]

There were only two assets, the main movie file which the scenaid script was looking for a .mpv.m2v and the other was a 'no-cce'.m2v which scenaid script kept as a .m2v and imported correctly.

The source is a french dvd, I presume they'll PAL too (not at home to verify).

Thanks D3s7

edit - there was no mpv file, i never processed 'cos I didnt need to shrink, just wanted to amend sub appearence.