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mrplow
29th January 2002, 09:59
This thing is giving me trouble.

First off the movie is 3.5 hours long. The opening credits are fullscreen while the rest of the movie is widescreen so I guess I'll have to encode the whole thing fullscreen. Also its an oliver stone film, so there are a lot of different video sources which leads to quite a bit of interlaced frames that made it through the editing.

And just to add to the fun its a pretty old dvd, its a double sided single layer disc I believe. The image quality is pretty bad, so I'll have to play with some filters for a while (suggestions?, I'm thinking smart smoother but I'd prefer to avoid the slower vdub filters if possible). I think I read that the directors cut dvd is a better transfer but I don't have access to it.

I think I'm going to have to do a manual ivtc with tmpgenc, again I'd like to avoid having to convert to RBG so I'll fool around with decomb first so see if I get any luck with it.

When I'm working with this movie all I can think of is how much of a pain natural born killers was :)

Anyone thats worked with this film I'd love to hear your suggestions.

cult
29th January 2002, 19:05
you can make 2 d2v files,one for the opening credits and one for the main movie.then encode the opening credits full screen and the main movie with its ratio,its pretty simple.Yes I have encoded this movie in 2 cds good quality

mrplow
29th January 2002, 22:17
I was thinking of doing that but I don't really want to have to have 2 avi files for a movie as the audio would skip while switching but then again that happens when I switch cds but I wouldn't want it to have to come to that.

cult
30th January 2002, 15:20
no the sound wont skip,u will extract both the ac3 sound with dvd2avi ,encode both videos,and encode to mp3 with ur favorite prog,or just use the ac3 sound.Then mux with nandub,no video or audio skipping,just be careful and patient

mrplow
30th January 2002, 23:52
I'm not sure what you mean then, it seems you want me to encode the opening credits at fullscreen and the rest at widescreen and then join them together? I always thought it was impossible to join two different resolutions.