Converting to MPEG-1 for contest: MPEG-2 trial ranout?

[AngelOfTheDark]

Hello,

I'm trying to encode a video for an AMV contest using both the ErMac Guide and Scintilla's Guide to Encoding AMVs to MPEG For Convention Submission. I exported it as a Huffy, sans the music since my computer kept crashing when I had it with the video. Then I sent it to AVISynth with the following code:

AVISource("I:\Contest\Crazy\CrConStep1b.avi")
AudioDub(last,WAVSource("C:\Documents and Settings\Editing Studio\Desktop\AMV Dump\Crazy Stuff\Crazy.wav"))
SSRC(48000)
ADTelecine(order=1)

which worked fine. I'm keeping it simple for now to make sure the process works. I'll probably clean up the footage a bit more once I get a good "test video."

Then I sent it to TMPGEnc, and that's when the problems began. I used the Encoding Your AMV to MPEG for Convention Submission Guide and selected the Otaku Video General Submission profile. I followed the instructions to encode it as an MPEG-1 since my trial for the MPEG-2 ran out long ago and I can't afford to buy the program at the moment. Two things keep happening that are strange:

1) It's telling me the source is 23.976 fps when it should be 29.97 fps. Is the ADTelecine line right? Or is there another problem? The original avi source in the AVISyth code has 29.97 fps.

2) When I tell it to actually encode the video, it keeps telling me that the trial version for the MPEG-2 encoding has run out, despite the fact that I unlocked it and selected Stream Type-> MPEG-1 Video.

Could someone please either let me know what I'm doing wrong or tell me another way to get extremely good quality MPEG-1 or -2 videos to send in to the convention? Remember, file size is not an issue.

Thanks for any advice!

[Zero1]

If your source AVI is 29.97, then you do not need to do anything with regard to telecine, so try leaving that line out.

As for MPEG-2, you might want to try this:
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video ... /quenc.cfm