i used avspmod to make avs script for hcencoder. failed with an error invalid input convert to yuy12 or something like that. WOW!!!!! the force is not with me on this one guys. it will be hard to remember it all but i am going to try and post step by step what i did and hope you guys can see an error. so here it goes.

1 dgindex with forced film enabled.

2 gordian knot to create an avs script set to 720x480. (it came out as 3:2 dar)

3 loaded avs script into vdub exported as lagarith avi.

4 loaded both video sources and both 6 channel mono wav files into vegas and edited.

5 exported from vegas as lagarith avi 720x480 dar=3:2 par=1.2121

6 loaded to cce and watched all my hard work pan out to frozen encoders.

7 panic, beg for answers try uninstalling reinstalling everything. and then try to export to mpeg2 directly from vegas and still never get it to display at 16:9.

8 realize that i manually subbed 2 complete films for a total of 26 hours of work just on the subs and it looks like it was a complete waste of time because some step prior to editing was done incorrectly.

i dont know man but i am stressing over this because i do not want to do those subs again.

if i exported from vegas as mpeg2 using the ntsc dv widescreen 16:9 template this should add the 16:9 flag for dvd architect right? well it does not work. so to me this says there is something wrong with the lagarith sources i used. could it be that they came out of vdub as a total size of 720x480 including the black frame on all sides? this would explain it. instead of coming out as 720x480 for just the video for some reason i dont understand it included the frame as part of the pixels. so when i add the 16:9 flag it does for sure change it. but it does not know that the black bars are not part of the picture. i am just pulling at strings here but does anyone think this is what happened? if so then my edit is trash and i am back to square 1