Error importing movie into scenarist.

After succesfully reauthored commercial dvds several times I find it rather straightforwad and decided to try something new. I want to make my own dvd with my own menues and stuff. I got hold of some divx'es of my favorite show Friends and decided to do an season 9 dvd. (Yes divx quality is bad I know, I'm doing this on my own and for fun not for reselling!). I might be a newbie but I want to learn! For converting the divx to mpeg2 I use Avisynth -> CCE. (CCE settings after the CCE Guide on Doom9) The problem comes when importing the m2v to Scenarist I get the error message "Error : Frame rate (4 = reserved) is wrong.". The divx framerate is 29.970 FPS, I do not know how to tell CCE this (in the avisynth script?) but I figure the framerate is not DVD standard. I've tried to run pulldown on it, same error! Any ideas? Also, in my avisynth script I have the line "BicubicResize(720,576)" but the m2v file turns out to be 768 x 576 when watching it in windows media player, what's up with this? Thanks for any help!

you need to run pulldown on the new m2v file, to drop frames, fps then becomes 23.976 which scenarist will need.

Yes, I did run pulldown with the -framerate 23.976 command on the m2v I also tryed other pulldown commands with no success. When importing the m2v I ran pulldown on into scenarist I get the following error: "Error : Frame rate (1 = 24 000+1001(23.976)) is wrong." Any ideas what might be wrong? I cant find any help on scenarist error messages in the pdf manual nor the net.

I'm not an expert on PAL by any means, but from what I can see you are trying to do a NTSC to PAL conversion at the same time you are doing a divx to DVDr conversion. From my understanding, your fps should be 25 not 23.97. Just a thought.

There r some errors in it. 1. U r using NTSC frame rate. 29.97 is the correct one that u can use and Scenarist accepts. 2. 720x576, as eyes only correctly spotted is Pal resolution. U cant have both of them at the same time. Now if u r doing this in NTSC, aim for 720x480 and 29.97fps If u r on Pal, use 720x576 and 25fps. if u have ntsc footage that u want to convert to Pal, search the fora. There r excellent threads about the conversion and steps needed.

Gee how stupid of me, Big mistake I didn't care to check I had the right resolution, I'm so used to doing PAL. Thanks alot!