Trying to add deleted scenes back into the movie?

[tjdavis1138]

I have started trying to add the deleted scenes from AOTC back into the movie. This is what I have done so far.

Ripped movie with dvd shrink.
Demuxed vob files with vobedit
Used besweet to encode the ac3 file into wav
Used Virtualdubmod to encode to huffyuv
I then load everything into Vegas Video, cut & paste until I get it just the way I want it.

I did this with Phantom Menace and I didn't have anyproblems, but with AOTC the deleted scenes are 29.97fps and the movie is 23.976. Not real sure how to go about converting these files. I'm thinking I need to ivtc them?

Any help would be appreciated.

[SallyDog]

Sounds like a pulldown issue to me. I'm not familiar with Vegas, but I assume you load the demuxed video and audio into it. If so, you need to process the "movie" video (not the deleted scenes) with pulldown. You can download it and find guides here on doom9.

[tjdavis1138]

I tried using pulldown and it will only process one frame.

I wish I knew more about all of this stuff.

[SallyDog]

Would you please post your command line that only processed 1 frame :confused:

[wmansir]

Used Virtualdubmod to encode to huffyuv

Instead of opening the .vob files directly use AVISynth to read and IVTC it.

Install AVISynth and get the plugins DGIndex and Decomb.

DGIndex lets AVISynth read MPEG2 files. It has 2 parts. DGIndex.exe scans the .vob and makes a project file. Then DGDecode.dll is used by AVISynth to open the project file and read the video. Here (http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm) is Doom9's guide on Mpeg2Dec, which is what DGIndex is based on. The program/file names have changed, but the procedure is virtually the same.

Decomb will perform the IVTC. Version 5 is faster, but V. 4 is easier to use, since it automatically detects the field order. The Readme should be enough to get it working. You basically just add 3 lines to you .avs script.


LoadPlugin("C:\blah\decomb.dll")
Telecine(parameters)
Decimate()

Telecine attempts to create progressive frames by matching adjacent fields. IF no match is found it takes the closest one and deinterlaces. parameters depends on what version you are using. For V4 having none will probably work, for V5 you have to specify the field order at a minimum. The V5 readme has simple instructions for determining the field order.

Decimate removes 1 in 5 frames and changes the frame rate. It tries to remove duplicate frames, which Telecine() should have produced if the material can be IVTCed.

Once this is all set up you just open your .avs file just as you would the .vob file and save it to Huffyuv. This process won't cause any sync issues, so you shouldn't have to change the rest of your method.