Changing Framerates...is it possible?

[modem]

I have a movie there that is 23.976 FPS/NTSC based avi file. Last night I followed the directions as given on this website to make it into a DVD. I did so and it appeared to convert properly and just fine in about 9 hour time span. Well when I went to author the video this morning in DVD Workshop. I made my menus and did everything properly and when I went to burn it DVD workshop kept trying to force me to re-encode it. I opened MovieFactory and it told me it was an invalid MPEG file.

The only thing I can pinpoint as the problem is that I didn't change it to 29FPS in TMPGENc when I encoded it last night. Instead of re-encoding it again waiting another 9 hours for it, is it possible that I can take my current MPEG file and just use some software or utility to change the framerate from 23 to 29?

[wolleric]

Pulldown is just the tool you need. Just type in
pulldown.exe <input> <output>
or use the Pulldown GUI (check the VCDHelp Tools section). <input> has to be a pure video stream (demux your movie with TMpegEnc).
<output> is the video stream in 29.97 fps.

[weeyoo]

tmpgenc will do pulldown for you if you check the box in the advanced tab.

[modem]

Thanks for that info. I'll be trying that shortly. I did notice when I downloaded pulldown it said for SVCD type conversions. My conversion is strictly to remain a DVD MPEG2 stream to put on a DVD. Hopefully it will still work...?

[modem]

Question for you guys regarding the de-mux process. When I tried that for some unknown reason the process stops around the 1.1gb limit for the video file which is about 25% into the entire process. I've tried 3-4 times already and same thing happens. Suggestions, thoughts, opinions?

[DJRumpy]

Sounds like there is some corruption in your MPEG. See the tools section on the left to scan for and fix any errors. Worse case, you'll have to refer back to your source to re-encode again.