AC3s too short for video streams in X-Files

I just started copying the X-Files season 1 DVDs and when I went to reauthor the episodes in Maestro I find that the AC3s are all only about 45 min long and the M2Vs are about 55 min (now this is a synch problem :mad: ). I used DoItFast4U to do the initial rips and CCE to transcode. Has anybody else had this problem?

I can tell you this much, look at the video file steps. American television is 25% advertising, meaning a 60 minute show has only 45 minutes of program in it. Is this PAL or NTSC? Adding pulldown to a PAL video would stretch it out like that.

This is NTSC. I did do Pulldown after transcoding with CCE but that has never been a problem before and it gets wierder than that. If I load the AC3 into Windows Media Player it shows a time length of 44:37. Media Player won't give a loength for the M2V so I ran it through Power DVD at high speed and the length came out at around 45 min. When I import the files into Maestro the M2V shows 55 min + and the AC3 seems to show the right time. I tried to compile one of the episodes to see if this was just a reporting error by Maestro but the entire thing is completely out of synch from the very begining and the sound quits at about 45 min and the video just keeps on going. I'm still stuck here. All the information on this site has been a great help and I've been able to copy a bunch of movies and the first 2 seasons of Stargate SG1 and Farscape with no problems.

You suggestion about Pulldown got me to thinking so I renamed the MPVs that came out of CCE and used them for my M2Vs in Maestro and now everything seems to work find. So now I am completely confused. I understood that CCE output couldn't be imported into Maestro without using Pulldown to pad the video stream because CCE outputs at 23 and Maestro needs files at 29 to bring them in. If that is true then how do I explain what just happened with these files? If that isn't true can you take a min to explain it to me. Thanks :)

I think that I can explain this. Actually its quite simple. The source material was NTSC at 29.97. DVD2AVI hasn't changed this and CCE kept it all the way. In fact CCE doesn't change frame rate. So the mpv were ready to be authored. When u run them through pulldown u increased the lenght by this amount. I hope it make sense. Happy New Year

Thanks guys. Once again the Doom9 crew comes through. If I hang around here long enough I might just really learn what this is all about :cool: Have a great New Year celebration and yell if you need bail money in the morning.