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  DVD SP – Bitvice MPEG2 File Incompatibility?

  Posted by Nikhil Kamkolkar on February 15, 2007 at 3:10 pm

  Hi,

  I have a “Apple FCP Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 720×486, 16-bit integer Stereo 48kHz audio, 23.98 FPS, progressive” quicktime video file (exported from FCP) that I am encoding with bitvice. When I try to import the resulting MPEG-2 file into DVD SP, the “Import Assets” fails with the error “Incompatible Format”

  When I encode the same clip with compressor, I have no issues with importing into DVD SP. But compressor doesn’t do a good job with the compression, hence Bitvice.

  When I open this clip to encode in bitvice, it doesn’t recognize the 23.98 FPS that quicktime indicates as the frame rate, so I change it to 23.976 in the settings dialog, I select 16:9, uncheck “interlalced input”, and when it asks me whether I want to crop or scale this NTSC D1 footage, I choose crop.

  The resulting mpeg’s from both Compressor and Bitvice have the same info properties. “MPEG2 video, 720×404, 23.98” with slightly different data size/rate. But the compressor mpeg 2 imports into DVD SP, and the Bitvice mpeg2 fails on the import with the “Incompatible Format” error.

  What am I doing wrong?

  Thanks!
  Nik

  Nikhil Kamkolkar replied 19 years, 5 months ago 1 Member · 2 Replies
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  Nikhil Kamkolkar

  February 15, 2007 at 3:21 pm

  Additional info:

  The footage is film-originated, and is 16:9.

  Bitvice version 1.7 (just got it a few days ago!)
  DVD SP v 4.0.3

  Thanks,
  Nikhil
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  Nikhil Kamkolkar

  February 15, 2007 at 10:54 pm

  Got the response below from Roger at the innobits forums. Reproducing here to close out this thread… this info below did the trick!

  >The DVD spec requires MPEG-2 video flagged as 29.97 fps. This is accomplished by using the 2:3 pulldown option.
  >Choose the frame rate in BitVice to be 23.976 with 2:3 pulldown.
  >You must deselect “Interlaced Input” first, otherwise this menu item will be dimmed and not selectable.
  >
  >That’s all, everything else seems OK.

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