CCE SP2 Frame Rate conv issue: Picture turns black

[Sebweb]

Hi !
My encoded video suddenly goes black at the end of the movie. I discovered that it was due to the frame rate conversion when converting a 23.976 fps input to a 25 fps in my case. The length of the black picture movie part is equal to the difference in frame number. Let's say you have a 1 hour movie wich represents around 86300 frames played at 23.976fps and 9000 frames at 25fps. The difference is about 3700 frames wich is about 2.5 minutes of black picture I have at the end of the converted movie. Total movie length though is correct, just missing the last 2.5 minutes which turns black. I assume it's a bug in CCE SP2 1.00.00.15 ? Any idea? Any Patch available ?
Thanks,
Seb

[45tripp]

It should work.
The simple solution is not to do it.
Encode as 23.976.
Then use dgpulldown to flag it up to 25

[Sebweb]

Thanks for the reply.
I have a doubt... Using dgpulldown to flag it up to 25 will just result in the movie playing faster ? Thus having a shorter movie and loosing audio sync ? I might be wrong, not sure ... I'll give it a try anyway.

[manono]

I might be wrong...

You're wrong.

[mats.hogberg]

As most PAL equipment have no trouble playing NTSC material, there's no reason to do any frame rate / TV system conversion at all. If it's NTSC to start with, keep it NTSC all the way.

/Mats

[Sebweb]

Seems to work indeed. Thank you guys !