yukichigai
Mar 2005
Video Tech Geek
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For the sake of completeness, I gotta add this.
I'd just like to point out that for some 25 fps sources, particularly R5s, that the video is in fact sped up, and thus the audio is what I term "lightly chipmunked". An easy way to tell (for non-cam-based sources anyway) is to compare the runtime of the file(s) you have with the runtime listed at IMDb. If the video runtime is shorter than the IMDb runtime, it's probably been sped up.*
If that's the case then you probably want to slow the movie down rather than do the conversion method described in the first post. The process is roughly similar: load the file up in DGIndex, then save a D2V file. You'll then want to make an AviSynth file nearly identical to the previous one, but with one minor addition:
quote: LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\Plugins\DGDecode.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\Path\to\myFile.d2v")
LanczosResize(720,480)
AssumeFPS(23.976)
Encode your video with whatever. (TMPGEnc, Nero, DIKO, what have you)
For the audio, the easiest option will be to use a program called BeSweet. It comes with a GUI which, while ugly as crap, has a nice little dropdown option for "PAL -> NTSC film conversion". Select the audio file (probably an AC3) and encode to either AC3 or MP2. (BeSweet-made AC3 audio doesn't work in some DVD players, though it DOES work in all DVD-capable game consoles)
For the rest, just follow the remaining process from the original post.
Enjoy.
*If you want to be really sure that you're dealing with a sped up movie, take the IMDb-listed runtime in minutes, divide by 25, then multiply by 23.976. If the number you get is suspiciously close to the runtime of the file(s) you have, your 25fps source is really a sped up 23.976fps source.
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