MPEG's stretching & SFVX files

DaveF wrote on 1/19/2006, 12:15 PM
I'm working on a DVD project in DVDA 2.0a.

When I use MPEG-2s made in Vegas 5.0 with the Mainconcept encoder (which I've been using several years), they work with no problem.

I have about half a dozen MPEG-2's made in Final Cut Pro, output using Apples "Compressor" program. I import them into my DVD Architect project and the picture looks good, it plays with no stutter, everything is fine.

I close DVD Architect, then relaunch (either a day or a minute later), and find three things:

1.
DVD Architect suddenly reports all the FCP files as being MPEG-1.
2.
The folder on the PC that contains the media files is suddenly full of files with the extension "SFVX".
3.
When using Preview, My videos are all stretched, as if DVDA thinks they're 16 x 9 format.
I haven't tried burning it to a disk when Preview doesn't look right.

If I delete the SFVX files (even with DVDA still running), the video returns to it's normal, 4x3 aspect ration.

All clips are reported as being 720 x 480, regardless of how they appear in the preview window.

Anyone encounter this?

Thanks

Comments

bStro wrote on 1/19/2006, 2:02 PM
The presence of SVFX files is intentional. The weird stretching is a bug that was in DVDA 2.0. I have no idea what's up with the files being interpreted as MPEG1 -- never seen that before.

I don't think it was fixed in the 2.0b update, but you should download and install that nonetheless. If that doesn't fix this particular issue, e-mail or call Sony. They were e-mailing out patches for this to anyone who asked for it. (The bug doesn't seem to affect too many people, 'cause it doesn't happen with Vegas-rendered files.)

Rob