Using Video Studio 9, i have captured an NTSC film.
Now i want to transform it to PAL/SECAM system, but at the end of the procedure there is an alert: "Some chapter entry frame numbers exceed the total frames", and the procedure does not end.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
A strange alert...
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You don't say what procedure you are following to convert the files. But I imagine that the error message comes because of the different frame rates between NTSC (29.97 fps) and PAL (25 fps). Your captured NTSC will be Z seconds long. Multiply this by 29.97 and this will give you the number of frames in the video. But for PAL, the same video would only require Z x 25, which is a smaller number by Z x 4.97 frames. In other words, as you get towards the end of the video, some of the final NTSC chapters (maybe only one or two) will have an "address" in the file structure which comes after the number of frames that the PAL conversion produces.
The complication is that in a normal 'capture' process, I did not think any original chapter marks would be captured.
So I am assuming that in fact you did not 'capture' so much as import your file(s), say, from an existing DVD...? If so, you may have to add the 'imported' files to the burning module, then click on the 'Make Chapter Menu' button and if it already shows that there are chapters, click on the button to remove the existing chapter marks. Then, with the settings fixed to produce a PAL disc, you could reinsert new chapters which should then conform to the length calculated for a PAL disc.
I hasten to add that I don't know if this will work, because I have never been in the situation where I have had to try it.
But I am also wondering why you are trying to convert the video in the first place. These days, most stand-alone DVD players will play both NTSC and PAL discs, so there is no real reason to go through all the trouble of converting.
I also have to add that I am not really sure that VS9 is a sophisticated enough tool for all the complicated conversions that are involved in changing between broadcast systems (NTSC/PAL). There are specialised programs out there. IIRC, TMPGenc Plus will do it, and another relatively expensive program called Canopus Procoder also. Both tend to be very slow, but very accurate, programs. But as I say, see if a DVD which simply uses the original NTSC video in that format, will play on your, or your family/friends', DVD players. Use an RW disc in case it doesn't work, and that way you won't waste a good +/-R disc.
The complication is that in a normal 'capture' process, I did not think any original chapter marks would be captured.
So I am assuming that in fact you did not 'capture' so much as import your file(s), say, from an existing DVD...? If so, you may have to add the 'imported' files to the burning module, then click on the 'Make Chapter Menu' button and if it already shows that there are chapters, click on the button to remove the existing chapter marks. Then, with the settings fixed to produce a PAL disc, you could reinsert new chapters which should then conform to the length calculated for a PAL disc.I hasten to add that I don't know if this will work, because I have never been in the situation where I have had to try it.
But I am also wondering why you are trying to convert the video in the first place. These days, most stand-alone DVD players will play both NTSC and PAL discs, so there is no real reason to go through all the trouble of converting.
I also have to add that I am not really sure that VS9 is a sophisticated enough tool for all the complicated conversions that are involved in changing between broadcast systems (NTSC/PAL). There are specialised programs out there. IIRC, TMPGenc Plus will do it, and another relatively expensive program called Canopus Procoder also. Both tend to be very slow, but very accurate, programs. But as I say, see if a DVD which simply uses the original NTSC video in that format, will play on your, or your family/friends', DVD players. Use an RW disc in case it doesn't work, and that way you won't waste a good +/-R disc.
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