- Jan 29, 2005
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I'm trying to merge two Windows Movie Maker-made clips with a FRAPS-recorded one. I've compressed the FRAPS video via VirtualDub, as usual, with FFDShow video codec with the WMV9 encoder for future usage in Movie Maker which only accepts .wmv and .asf files (I think, but I know for sure that it doesn't support .avi or .mpg, or something doesn't work, but that'd be another topic). So, I made two clips directly in WMM which are the intro and credits text, one clip is to be merged as the start of the finished movie, and the other clip as the end of it, with the "main" file in the middle. I've managed to do everything up to a certain point, to the merging point. I normally use VirtualDub for merging with the Append method which usually works wonders, but this time it says that the "main" file and the two clips I'm trying to merge have different streams.
Unsure of why it was the case I tried another merging software I have, namely Boilsoft's Joiner, and if I try to join with that one I get a message giving me the exact reason why they cannot be joined, none of them. It's apparently because the main file runs at exactly 30.0000 FPS, while both other files run at 30.0003 FPS, and because of that difference they cannot be joined. So I went back in VirtualDub and forced a 30.0000 FPS cap on both clips and re-compressed them (instead of using WMM to do it). It didn't worked, they still apparently run at 30.0003 FPS. I had a "final" solution to try out, so I used AVI Mux which is a software that allows merging between video files that don't have the same streams, so I tried with that one and it worked, but there's a problem, there's no sound anymore, it's completely gone.
I don't know what to do, and I would appreciate some help, how am I supposed to fix a 0.0003 difference in frames? I don't have much choices when it comes to codecs since it's for YouTube, and I know that I can't try many encoder types, XviD sometimes don't work, sometimes it does, and WMV always work, but I will try alternatives if the 0.0003 FPS issue is related to a codec and I would have to change it.
Unsure of why it was the case I tried another merging software I have, namely Boilsoft's Joiner, and if I try to join with that one I get a message giving me the exact reason why they cannot be joined, none of them. It's apparently because the main file runs at exactly 30.0000 FPS, while both other files run at 30.0003 FPS, and because of that difference they cannot be joined. So I went back in VirtualDub and forced a 30.0000 FPS cap on both clips and re-compressed them (instead of using WMM to do it). It didn't worked, they still apparently run at 30.0003 FPS. I had a "final" solution to try out, so I used AVI Mux which is a software that allows merging between video files that don't have the same streams, so I tried with that one and it worked, but there's a problem, there's no sound anymore, it's completely gone.
I don't know what to do, and I would appreciate some help, how am I supposed to fix a 0.0003 difference in frames? I don't have much choices when it comes to codecs since it's for YouTube, and I know that I can't try many encoder types, XviD sometimes don't work, sometimes it does, and WMV always work, but I will try alternatives if the 0.0003 FPS issue is related to a codec and I would have to change it.
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