Ummm... whoops?

[Kaboom]

I has a problem.

Somewhere along the line, I made a booboo. Now, for some reason, my footage of Wrath of the Dragon is sort of... skipping back and forth weirdly. I didn't really notice it until I started trying to edit in Vegas, but I now realize it was there in VirtualDub, too.

It's actually skipping back and forth between the dub version and the japanese. It plays about two seconds of one, and then the same two seconds of the other. I figured that out when it started going back and forth between the Japanese and English title screens.

My steps:

1) DVD Decrypter - Took these three files.

• VTS_01_1.vob
  VTS_01_2.vob
  VTS_01_3.vob

2) DGIndex - Put the three together, in order, to make "Wrath_Of_The_Dragon.d2v"

3) VirtualDubMod - Loaded the .d2v, made a .avs, and added these lines to the script.

• SetMemoryMax(16)
  mpeg2source("C:\WRATH_OF_THE_DRAGON\VIDEO_TS\Wrath_Of_The_Dragon.d2v").Telecide(1).Decimate(5)
  deen("a2d",4,6,6)
  tweak(sat=1.2)
  tweak(bright=1.5)

I wasn't getting an answer as to what scripts are best for Dbz, so I was just playing around with Mike's examples he used with Honey and Clover. But I don't think those are what's causing the problem...

4) ffdshow - Used makeAVIS to work off the .avs, since my laptop doesn't have the space to go around saving huge HuffYUV-compressed AVIs all willy-nilly.

5) Sony Vegas - Loaded the ".avi" to play around with, and that's when I noticed the weird skipping between versions.



So there's what I did. Now why is it skipping back and forth like this? Help a n00b out.

[Eclipse]

I don't know why the problem's happening, but there's an option in VirtualDub (Check the Streams, I think) that lets you disable the audio streams. See if that works.

EDIT: Never mind, I read it wrong. I thought it was talking about audio.
Silly me >.<

[VegettoEX]

Let me guess... it's only skipping back and forth for the beginning of the movie up until the title card, right? In the middle it's totally fine?

Yeah. That's the alternate angles at work . Go into the Tools >> Settings >> File Mode menu of DVD Decrypter.



It doesn't really matter if you take angle 1 or 2 (1 will get you the dub title screen, 2 will get you the Japanese title screen), but make sure you're only taking the one angle. You'll notice the ripped VOB will be smaller than 1 GB in size, too, since it doesn't have to take that extra video data.

[Kaboom]

Gotcha. I think that was it.

[Kaboom]

Another quick question. My footage still seems to be a little choppy, both in VirtualDubMod and my editor. Any ideas?

Also, anything I can do to lessen the amount of rainbowy-looking edges?

[SatoSky]

If your footage is running choppy it could mean that your PC is not fast enough to handle the RAW frames. I'm assuming that your playing back lossless, or Lagarith encoded, AVI files. Also, the more AVISynth scripts that you use, the slower the footage will play back.

Here is a list of rainbow removal filters. I've never used these before my self, but give 'em a go.

And here is page I found full of filters for all kinds of crazy things.

Have at it.

[JesseD]

To remove rainbows use:

mfrainbow()

Just type that into the Script and they'll go away. It works really well even on sources like Trigun.