CCE SP avi video wrong length

[skipadipadoo]

Hi everybody,
I have CCE SP 2.70 (Trial)
I am trying to convert an avi to elementary mpeg2 streams, the movie is 1hr & 20mins in length, but when I load it into cce the video comes up as 1hr & 4mins - Audio is fine (normal length)
What am I doing wrong?
I have no other problems with cce I mostly use it in conjunction with DVD Rebuilder Pro & have found it to be a great encoder.
I have read some guides & am learning how to use cce with avisynth scripts as I had some aspect ratio problems with the same avi.
If anybody has any ideas or possible solutions I would love to hear them - Am feeling very stuck.
Thanks in advance.
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[guns1inger]

CCE hates VBR MP3 audio, so if your audio is VBR MP3 either convert it to wav or CBR first, or ditch it completely. I never used CCE for audio encoding, so I always dropped the audio in my avisynth script so only video was ever passed through.

If you are having aspect ratio problems, use FitCD to create an avisynth script that correctly resizes the video for you, then untick the For DVD option in CCE.

[Alex_ander]

From your timing numbers (80/64mins) looks like the avi was 23.976 and encoding framerate 29.97 (80/64=29.97/23.976=5/4). CCE encodes as many frames as given and will speed-up the video in this case. If so and you kept your encoding, you can demux video stream in DGIndex and correct it in DGPulldown by typing 23.976 for input and 29.97 for output.

[manono]

Or change the framerate to 23.976 inside CCE. The default is 29.97fps. You might consider setting up a new default template if what you generally encode is 23.976fps progressive . That may not be true, though, if you're in Australia. But it does pay to know the facts about your particular video file before trying to encode it.

[skipadipadoo]

Thank heaps guys - I'm going to try all of your suggestions although I think I got the script right for the aspect ratio & yes the original avi framerate is 23.976 It didn't really occur to me how important that is - I'm still learning, but, from what Alex_ander said it does makes more sense to me now.
I appreciate your input & I'll let you know how it all works out.
Cheers
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Edit: Looks great, did it again @ 23.976 & I'm very happy with the results - Tried FitCD & my script was pretty much the same - glad to know I'm on the right track
Thanks again
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