Just downloaded 3 subbed episodes of Trigun. (4,5, and 6) My problem is 4 is fine, has opening and ending. But 5 is missing an ending, and 6 is missing both. (Geez, who subbed those 2? I know that if I could speak Japanese, [and I will one day] I would have the piece of mind to provide an opening so you know the anime you are watching. Anyway, back to the problem...) I took the intro from episode 4 and i saved it as its own file. So now i have the intro credits with the kick ass song ready to append to ep 6. But when i tried it, i realized the sampling rates are different, so its not possible. I then tried intro from ep 5, no go there either. Anyway. I know now that the outro will not work either so ep 6 has no outro or intro for the time being. and ep 5 outro probably wont work too, so im sorta stuck, cuz i dont burn episodes that are different from each otehr. Anywho, i wanted to know if anyone knew of a method using Virtual Dub or any other freeware program to either change the sampling rate on ep 6 so that joining will work, or to sort of change both to a new rate. Anyone who knows remotely what im talking about may be of some help. Thanks in advance.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

Answers

why dont u use an editing studio, slap the intro and endings on to the eps then re-encode the whole thing so its all the same?

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

Thats what i tried, using Virtual Dub, but the sampling rates are different on all 3 episodes, so its impossible. Do you know of a program you can use to change sampling rates? Or am I just a dumbass and does Virtual Dub do that, because up until know i didnt think there was anything that that program couldn't do. Heck, for a while I thought it could give me a wake-up call if i asked it to.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

ill try and remember the program i used to encode files differently. just that editing studios often give u the option if u wanna match the sampling rates so that they go together.

does it really matter that it doesnt have and intro and ending anyway?

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

I guess it doesnt, but but im strange like that. Whats the word? neat freak maybe... I just put them both into TMPGEnc and made them VCD format, because it might have changed their sampling rates, i dont really know. BTW which program do you, or did you use?

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

i cant remember!!!! its pissing me off cos i cant find it anymore!!!

i did however use roxio video editing pack - now that was good, just kinda hard to pick up.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

Im not sure if the rates changed even though they are in VCD format now, but it doesnt matter because Virtual Dub doesn't join mpg files together. lol I'm screwed i think. One last question: Do you know if i change sampling rates for an episode it will unsync the audio and video? If i know that i can work from there.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

i dont think changing the sampling rates will alter the sound and video sync, it'll just alter the quality of both - thats all. not 100% but when i changed files the sync was the same - unless u wanna paste ur own audio on top to create e.g. a music video.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

Hehe, I've often thought about making a music video. I have everything i need. Plenty of media, plenty of good audio tracks, and the right program. I'm changing sampling rates right now. VDub does it, go figure :p. Maybe this post is for nothing, at least i got to chat with you Sim. (^_^)

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

Negative. All this time it was saying sampling rates, it was really framerates. Now i know you cant change those without unsyncing audio and video, so now it looks like i have whole new problems.

-- Anonymous, July 22, 2003

easy then, just get a program that changes framerates. ill search for one aswell

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2003

I know of a freeware program that changes the framerate of avi files. It allows you to undo changes made until you exit, so theres no chance you'll ruin any avi files.

It can be found at

http://www.am-soft.ru/download.html

It's only 650 kb too!

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2003

Thank you. I think I solved the problem though, i stated earlier VDub doesnt merge mpegs, and it doesnt, but you can make the mpegs into avis, so all i did was make a vcd version of both the ending and opening credits then made all the avi triguns i had into MPEG VCD's too, so then all i had to do was convert those along with the credits back into avi. That made all the framerates the same, so then it was simple to work with. After adding the credits on, I converted them 1 more time into MPEG VCD's and i just burned a disk a while ago. Next time ill try the program so i dnt lose vid quality by reencoding about 3 times.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2003

That was a lot of work, but worth it.

-- Anonymous, July 23, 2003

Yep, worth it i guess, but the funny thing is that ep 5's subtitles were so far down on the screen that when i played it on my tv the subtitles were cutoff a bit.

-- Anonymous, July 24, 2003