doubleofive said:

I've hit a roadblock. No matter how close I follow Ady's excellent directions/settings, I get framerate issues all over. Repeated frames, missing frames. I don't get it. And I only have 17 days left in my Sony Vegas trial.

Someone else may have to take up the reigns of this project. I started doing the framing to the 2004 version, but I later decided that I would just need to do my own version, especially after hearing about all of the different ones from KM.

If you are using the NTSC version then you need to remove the pulldown first. This is causing the frame issues. Vegas is pretty crap for removing any pulldown and versions after 7 are also pretty buggy when working with Mpeg files. I'd recommend converting it to lossless avi. Also if you are doing it as pan and scan then you're better off rescaling it to its correct ratio before adding the video into Vegas. yet again vegas is crap for scaling and gives a softer image. I always use VirtualdubMod for converting Mpeg to Avi and its very good at resizing. You will want to rescale it to 480 vertical lines with the matte borders cropped out. Once the pulldown is removed set the project to 23.976fps, 720x 480 and import your video