Main Movie 7 minutes shorter after encode

[Angelus]

Hi everyone I am trying to backup The Day After Tomorrow that I just got this week and I have run into a problem. After I encoded the main movie and imported it in Scenarist, it gives me this error:

This Video [ C:\DVD_Backup\day_after_tomorrow\VTS08\VTS__08_P01.P.16~9_1.mpv.m2v ] has different duration.

The .M2V file that DIF4U created is indeed something like 2:03 hrs long, and after the encode the resulting .M2V file is 1:56 hrs long, somewhere 7 minutes have gotten taken off of the file. I used ScenAid 1.0 final to create the ScenAid-ccedata.txt which I used it BatchCCEWS. It *seems* like some of the credits are missing at the end which doesn't really matter but the overall project is only 3.63 GB after all is said and done. Any idea why the duration is shorter?

Thanks

[D3s7]

if it's R1 could have been a pulldown issue.....

I'm working w/ that movie myself so I'll let you know if I have the same issue

[Angelus]

Yeah it is R1, both the .mpv (before pulldown) and the .m2v files are the same size and length, so I'm not sure if it's a pulldown issue.

[D3s7]

could have been a bad encode too

check in the ECL file.. see what the "encode_last" setting is.

if you can tell me that and what the framerate is (23.976 or 29.97 - that can be found in the .d2v) i can tell you what CCE "should" have encoded length wise

[Angelus]

Main Movie:
ECL - encode_last=167470

And the frame rate is 23.976.

I checked the ECL from one of the extras that I encoded and this is what I got:
frame_first=2620
frame_last=2620
encode_first=0
encode_last=2620

For the main movie this is what I get:
frame_first=177910
frame_last=177910
encode_first=0
encode_last=167470

I'm guessing the frame_last is supposed to be equal to encode_last?

[D3s7]

I would say that is probably the problem

the difference is about 7min 15sec which is what your seeing (diff in frames)

post the entry in the ScenAid-ccedata.txt file for that particular asset if you would please...

could be a ScenAid issue or could be a BatchCCE issue

[Angelus]

Sorry for not replying sooner, I had a trojan/virus on my computer and I had to reinstall :( Anyways I'm pretty sure that was the problem and the ScenAid-ccedata.txt I'm pretty sure did show that frame number rather than the total number of frames. One time I opened it up in BatchCCEWS and it showed the right number of frames! Weird, but the encode worked after that.