What's a legal NTSC MPEG2 file for Ulead DVD Workshop?

[odedia]

Hi.

DVD Workshop has a lousy bug, which is that it created problems with chapters in NTSC movies.

I've tried to author an NTSC DVD, but at some point it just told me "some chapters points to frames that are out of bound", and through me out of the program.

The problem is, (after reading some posts), that it can't really tell the difference between 23.976fps videos and true 29.970fps videos. I THINK. I'm not sure. if anyone can correct me, please do.

The question is, what's the right settings in TMPG for it to work well with DVD workshop with no problems? I had no problems with a PAL version of the same project. It's just the NTSC. The problematic video was encoded as "29.970" in "interlaced" mode. so there was no 3:2 pulldown. is that what i should set?

Please give me some advise, I don't want to use workshop's re-encode function. It's terrible and sloooow.

Oded S.

[Nolonemo]

Can't give you much help, I'm afraid, but I seem to recall that when I set up DVD WS it asked if I was in a NTSC land or a PAL land. If you set it up for PAL, perhaps that makes problems for NTSC authoring?

[odedia]

I don't think that's it, cause you can change that in the precerences window afterwards. If i wanna make an NTSC DVD, I just mark it as "NTSC".

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Can ANYONE help me out here?

Oded S.

[Ndb;-))]

Setting to PAL or NTSC on install or per project will not affect the NTSC bug. This only happens for me with 23fps-29fps pull down jobs i.e. TMPGenc inverse-telesync. Like you PAL are fine, plus normal NTSC are fine also, only Film movie's converted to 29fps.

I have to pick my chapters, then jump back about 5-6mins and change chapter thumbnail for each chapter - fun eh!

But I have never had a movie fail like you have, so can't really help much more than that.

Kevin :P