um hey guys i am stuck again! lol. i dont know whats going on but i rendered my edit out of vegas in lagarith and then tried to encode to mpeg2 in cce. first off cce locked up. then i looked at the little bit of video it did encode and it is still in 3:2 ar. its weird because i did a test clip in cce a few days ago and set the ar to 16:9 and chose 3:2 pulldown and the clip came out fine. however that clip was from vdub that i had rendered out to lagarith. after running the file through vegas something went wrong. so is there another encoder you guys can suggest? i have downloaded hc encoder but dgindex wont work with the lagarith file to create a d2v to load into hc. i dont know how to make an avs script. so i am s.o.l. i put it into tmpgenc and chose 16:9 3-2 pulldown and checked the preview and nope its not going back to 16:9. so i guess i still do not get how to bring the 3:2 file back to 16:9. can someone elaborate on how this is done and what the problem may be with cce? thanks again everyone.