Need help editing a movie

I'm struggling with the ability to edit my own version of "Band of Brothers" in order to fix a few historical inaccurate parts here and there. * Ripped the DVD with DVD Decrypter. * Transcoded AC3 audio to six WAVs using BeLight. * Open IFO with Sony Vegas (video stutters and loses sync quickly.) * Opened VOBs with VirtualDubMOD... export video and it doesn't sync with the ripped WAVs. (VirtualDubMOD shows that the video is 23.976fps but audio is 24.031fps from the VOBs) Is there a trick anyone here uses to do a fanedit of a movie?

You want to index the vobs with dgindex and then load those through avisynth, and then preferrably, compress them to a lossless codec. You might find this guide helpful:

I'll give it a try. I'm having trouble installing AVISynth (getting a weird administrator access error even though I am an admin). I'll let you know if I run into more problems.

The instructions I've provided are for use with the .AVIs that you would have created by using VirtualDubMOD directly. Please clarify - Are you converting to or wanting to convert to .AVIs? If not, why are you using VirtualDubMOD directly?

I will be cutting out some material here and there, mostly stuff that historian Mark Bando and Major Dick Winters himself criticized about the series. I'll try your first option again and see if that works; if not, I'll give MPEG Mediator a try. Thanks for your help!

Yeah, but some of the edits will be a little tricky and can't be crash edits. I'm also taking out almost all the "F" words, which Major Winters slammed Tom Hanks on... he said the word was used once in a very great while and not thrown about as much as HBO slung it about. So I'll drop the center track audio at those spots but keep the other audio tracks in. Works really well in Vegas on the timeline, but I just can't get the video to cooperate well. I'm also kicking around the idea of editing episodes 1 and 2 together, combining the interviews, cutting the credits. Might do it with a few other episodes as well... haven't decided yet. :cool: Still, I'll try your two ideas and let you know how they go... thanks again!

I just wound up trimming out the 29.97fps parts... the HBO logo at the beginning and the credits at the end and all is good.

TIVTC actually has switches for hybrid material, as long as you start from a 30fps source; it can detect and blend them down automatically, if you want. If it's lost its timestamps, manual is the only way, though. Could be that your avi conversion method is just flawed, of course.

@DustBunny I have no further suggestions, but I am curious. Do these changes occur only at the junctures of the "mini interviews" at the beginning of each episode and the actual episodes?

@setarip In episodes 1 and 9, yes. In episode 2, however, the first 4/5ths of Major Winters' interview is 29.97, then it switches to 23.976 in the middle of a word. Then it switches back to 29.97 for the standard intro, then back to 23.976 for a few seconds of footage, then switches back for a couple more seconds of 23.976, then stays that way until the ending credits. Weird. Not looking forward to the rest of the episodes, but I'll plod through them.