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Post #356383

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Doctor M
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Doctor M's ÜberGuide for -Full- PAL to NTSC DVD Conversion v2.0
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Date created
22-Apr-2009, 9:00 PM

Ok, time to eat a big hunk o' crow.

I'll be the first to admit that the celltime recalculations always made my brains hurt, but working with them today I realized that my math was completely wrong.

For Case 1 video (the most common) you multiply by a factor of 1.25.  I had wrongly assumed that this was true for most of the other cases.  After playing around with some files today it turns out Case 1 is the exception.  Cases 2-6 need a factor of 1.2 (I think).

I've never noticed my error before now because by and large cases 2-6 occur in trailers and stuff where there are few if any chapters and the content is short enough that it isn't a large enough discrepancy.

Now I may still be completely wrong and if anyone has a firmer grasp on this please chime in.  For now I recommend you check that the chapters are in the right locations after conversion.

Edit: Or not.  I'm really up against it here and I'm hoping the Doom9 guys can thrash it out.

The problem is I'm seeing a several second discrepancy now in the chapter locations and runtime (even though the audio syncs). 
Something very odd is going on that I mean to find out about.

THIS ONLY applies to cases where you are using 25 to 29.97 pulldown.

Edit 2: Ok, or NOT.  Here's the deal, case 1 which you are essentially using 23.976 to 29.97 pulldown is a multiplier of 1.25.  ALL OTHER cases require a multiplier of 1.1988. 
The guide and spreadsheets have been updated accordingly.