Pal to NTSC conversion/besweet error

[aram12]

25 frame mpeg-1 source trying to convert to NTSC.

Using the guide on this site, I've found that I can't get BeSweet to work.

I get the command line error "Error 76: Unable to get Shibatch.dll interfaces Quitting..."

Anyone can help with that? Or can suggest an alternative method of conversion? It seems that I can just use cool edit for all the audio processing but the guide is a little unclear on how to do that... I'm not very familiar with audio processing as I've never really had screw around in that area before...now aspect ratios...OOO do I know that well!

[aram12]

Ok, fixed that problem. It was a version conflict.

I'm still trying to follow the guide...here's where I'm at.

From what I could figure out, what you're trying to do is stretch the audio to match up with the now "longer" video. I'm not really sure how all this is done, but I'm just trusting the guide here. So we're going to fuse a stretched audio file and a new 23.976 fps video file together in TMPGEnc. So...

I followed the instructions on creating the stretched mp2 file from besweet...got that, even though its much smaller than the original wav file, and I didn't think this process compressed the audio...it plays fine on my audio player.

Then, I used virtuadub to frameserve, followed the instructions, but TMPGEnc won't take the video source. Error, "...cannot open, or is unsupported".

In addition, let me see if my resizing is right. I want to create a 356 x 480 CVD. To find out my resize for overscan, I plug the file into FitCD, and choose 1/2 DVD as my output...now should PAL be checked or not? I think not as my final output is NTSC...anyway, give myself 3 blocks of overscan and I get 304 x 352 in the resize row...is that the number I use in TMPGEnc? Or did I figure something wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[aram12]

Ok, I finally got frameserving up and running, and I started up the encoding with TMPGEnc and after about two minutes I got "Cannot find TOOLame.exe"...what does that have to do with any of this?

[aram12]

Another question about all this...

If this process is supposed to convert the framerate from 25 to 23.976 fps then do I have to reencode again to get it to 29.97 to be able to play on my TV? And don't I have to use the 3:2 pulldown option in the Video tab of TMPGEnc so that it will play at 29.97? Because TMPGEnc won't let me use that option because the source isn't YET at 23.976...it's still at 25...so do I have to encode twice? What am I missing?