[melman101]

My friend transferred me a Pal divx to my PC. The pc reads it fine and shows the length as 1 hr 2 mins. When I transfer it to my mac and open it in quicktime it shows as 53 mins? When I converted it using Compressor to MPEG 2 it still showed 53 mins. Then I opened up FFMPEGX and hit play to see if the video was there. Apparantly i can go to the 53 min mark by fast forwarding, but then i cant fast forward anymore, but i can watch the remaining time. I want to convert this to MPEG for use in DVD Studio Pro 2. Any suggestions?

BTW, this is a PAL DIVX on a NTSC machine. G4 12" Powerbook 640 meg of RAM

Mel

[k_munic]

hmmm...
PAL has 25 frames per second
NTSC has 30 fps.

when you speed up 62min of video with 25%... it is 53 min... isn't it?

[melman101]

Probably. I tried using FFMPEGX and it took the right input file, but when i put the file into DVD Studio Pro, it says Parsing asset, and freezes up. When I converted with Compressor, it worked but i had the wrong time and it cut off the end of the video. Any more ideas.

[dtriska]

You'll probably have to convert the file in Windows. Check this out.

You'll have to change some things in these guides, but the general principles are the same.