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i am trying to reinsert the Virginia Madsen shooting scene at the end of Highlander 2: the Quickening into the Renegade Edition in VirtualDub 1.6.

only problem is when i try to insert the clip i get an error message saying that the video streams do not share a common sample rate.

First Stream (main movie) 00005dc0/000003e9 23.97602

Second Stream (clip) 00989680 / 00065d3b 23.97604

both streams have been reencoded with DivX Mpeg-4 at 1305 bitrate and the audio downmixed to mp3 (movie was 5.1 AC3) clip wasn't 5.1

but i still get the same error message. im very new to this editing stuff so am i doing something really dumb or just missing a vital part of the procedure.

thanks for your help!

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Sample rate is normally something to do with the audio. Are you sure the error is related to the video streams?

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thats what i thought originally, which is why i then converted the audio to mp3 for both files. but no what i posted above is the actual error message (near enough) it definitely says error in the video streams sample rates are different.

maybe its a frame problem (looking at the error message numbers ie 23.976) but i made sure i converted the clip to 23.976 which is the same as the movie.
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It does sound as if the error is caused by the minor differences in the frame rate.

For reference, the first one looks correct (the framerate of NTSC-film is approximated to 24000/1001 = 23.97602). I think there's a problem in whatever conversion you used for the second clip.

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This is a pretty common problem with virtualdub when combining xvid 7 divx clips that have been encoded separately. You best bet would be to search google for an avi joiner program. There are free ones out there that should be just what you need.

Alternatively you can load the 2 video files into Nero Vision express, set the output to the same settings encode settings as your clips and it will just join the clips together without re-encoding.

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