New Big 3/Scenarist problems

[LynxTheCat]

Well guys.

I used New Big3+ScenAid+NM4U+Scenarist NT+BatchCCE and CCE 2.50+EclCCE, and tried to do a complete rip of a movie, including re-encoding the menu.

Well, the menu was encoded perfectly, and so where all VTS'es, but when ScenArist (2.7) started to import and mux, it left out VTS_01, which was the main movie.

The outcome was that the VIDEO_TS that ScenArist created, only had a size of 249 MB's!!

WHat **** went wrong? I checked the folder called VTS_01, and the main HAD been re-encoded, it was just left out by ScenArist.. :-/

Does anyone know what went wrong? I was so mad, I thrashed all the scriptfiles, or else I would have posted 'em.. Sorry..

[Zeul]

Lynx
If you are using Numenu, then scenarist will be called to redo the menus (without any movie info ie vts01). DIF will then continue and then scenaid will takeover and do the movie (vts01) and no menus will appear in scenarist. The final processing will put it all back together.

So scenarist is called TWICE.

Also one last thing, this board doesn't tolerate profanity.

[LynxTheCat]

Yes, sorry for bad language. I should know better.

But the problem is: Scenarist is opened when re-authoring the menu, and does it fine, but I used BatchCCEWS instead of DIF4U for the encoding process, and it did indeed re-encode the rest of the video just fine. But when BatchCCEWS was finished, and scenarist opened for the second time, it did NOT mux togerher VTS_01 again, but the rest of the VTS'es that was left, was processed just fine.

Got any clue on why?

I also have another quezzy for ya' all, since I'm really in the mood:

Sometimes, I choose ripping using the Big3+Scenarist NT and DCCE4U/ReAuthorist, sometimes the new Big3 with ScenAid instead.

On my last project, I used the 'old' Big3. The output after finishing it up with IfoUpdate, was as good as perfect, excpet for one little (BIG) issue:

The colour of the subs turned out yellow or orange, infact, instead of white, as the source disc had. I've seen these PPF-patches, but I don't know how to create one. Quezzy is therefore: (real n00b) - HOW do I change the subcolours back to white, non-transparent again?

You know the feeling - the project looks fine playing it on standalone, and when checking through the different subs - they turns up in a completely different colour than the source?

:confused:

Regards,
//Lynx

[Zeul]

You should always use the 'new' guide which utilises scenaid. This is the preferred method instead of Reauthorist (which can't handle a lot of todays discs).
The subs 'point' to a color in the PGC of the IFO. It is hard to know exactly what color the sub points to, so, in the PGC change the color table. Make each entry as follows:
This will make each entry white, so whichever color line the sub points to the color will always be white. (This assumes that there are no highlights in the PGC - you don't want to change those)

234,128,128
234,128,128
etc

[D3s7]

sounds like scenarist is erroring out on the mux of your main movie... you can try manually opening the project and seeing what happens when you mux... we need to know the error

[LynxTheCat]

:thanks:

I really need help with the Scenarist 2.7:

I know I was told not to use the ReAuthorist/DCCE4U guide, but I did - again. :(

The project was started with first using VOBstripper/IFOEDIT to strip off the
warnings-stills, and to keep the bitrate as high as possible, VTS_04, trailers,
had to be stripped as well.

So I ended up with a DIR of VIDEO_TS looking like this:

Directory of G:\VIDEO_TS

07.12.2005 18:04 <DIR> .
07.12.2005 17:46 <DIR> ..
07.12.2005 18:04 18.432 VIDEO_TS.IFO
07.12.2005 18:04 18.432 VIDEO_TS.BUP
07.12.2005 17:46 10.680.320 VIDEO_TS.VOB
07.12.2005 17:54 67.584 VTS_01_0.BUP
07.12.2005 18:04 67.584 VTS_01_0.IFO
07.12.2005 17:46 46.247.936 VTS_01_0.VOB
07.12.2005 17:52 1.073.307.648 VTS_01_1.VOB
07.12.2005 17:53 1.073.645.568 VTS_01_2.VOB
07.12.2005 17:54 1.023.148.032 VTS_01_3.VOB
07.12.2005 18:03 69.632 VTS_02_0.BUP
07.12.2005 18:04 69.632 VTS_02_0.IFO
07.12.2005 17:46 45.645.824 VTS_02_0.VOB
07.12.2005 18:01 1.073.254.400 VTS_02_1.VOB
07.12.2005 18:02 1.073.399.808 VTS_02_2.VOB
07.12.2005 18:03 1.073.418.240 VTS_02_3.VOB
07.12.2005 18:03 123.967.488 VTS_02_4.VOB
07.12.2005 18:04 18.432 VTS_03_0.BUP
07.12.2005 18:04 18.432 VTS_03_0.IFO
07.12.2005 17:46 38.912 VTS_03_0.VOB
07.12.2005 18:04 252.727.296 VTS_03_1.VOB
07.12.2005 18:04 20.480 VTS_04_0.BUP
07.12.2005 18:04 20.480 VTS_04_0.IFO
07.12.2005 17:46 38.912 VTS_04_0.VOB
07.12.2005 18:04 20.480 VTS_04_1.VOB
24 File(s) 6.869.929.984 bytes
2 Dir(s) 0 bytes free

VTS_01 and 02 contains the movie(s) - flags as PAL - INTERLACED, each VTS-
set is containing 4 PGC's, each one a short animation-film. I need both VTS's to
be reencoded, together with VTS_03, some extras.

So after VTS_04 and the warning-stills were removed, I ISO'ed the rest again,
mounted, and started DIF4U. When finished demuxing, ReAuthorist started, and
I did the final preparations - resizing the and editing the avisynth-scripts for decomb-
deinterlace.

DCCE4U started, and the encoding went smooth. But when starting up
ScenArist 2.7, I got a few errors in the importing. But I went to the layout-
editor, but -ofcourse- it aborted before finishing.

I do have all the scripts and files, but are unsure which script to post? :stupid:

I'm desperate, so I would very much appreciate help. Just tell me which
script, and I'll post them. Do I really have to delete my project and use the
DVDrebuilder instead?? :p

ED: Here are the multiplex (https://s23.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3TEVCCH75ZNWV356KL0H5VPW6H) -script ScenArist created
before it aborted.

Does it get any of you readers any wiser? :p

Regards,
//Lynx

[Orion|69]

We need to know the exact errors scenarist throws.. nobody can give u any pointers if you don't alas.

[jel]

as both D3s7 and Orion|69 have explained, you will have to manually import the .SCP that ReAuthorist creates for you, then paste the contents of the Import Tab Window from scenarist.

you may have created a non-standard dvd when you pre-processed your source dvd. is there any reason why you do not use RA/Scenaid to reduce the items you dont want to stills? you can always remove the reference to these stills after the ifoupdate step ....