Any guides/progs to convert PAL DVD to NTSC DVD?

[NG]

Greetings,

I was wondering if there are any programs or guides to covert PAL DVDs to NTSC DVDs. I'm looking to fix the streching problem for my Anamorphic PAL dvds on a multi region DVD player.

Thanks for any info.

Gordon

[THEXFILES]

well there might be a shorter progress, but i did it and here it is...rip entire dvd to hd with smart ripper, then rip the audio from the dvd to a wave file with dvd audio ripper then you can open the video and audio file in tmpg plus and select pcm audio and convert the files then i used tmpg dvd author to burn it to the dvd. its a long progress but worked !

[tmelo36]

Greetings,

I was wondering if there are any programs or guides to covert PAL DVDs to NTSC DVDs. I'm looking to fix the streching problem for my Anamorphic PAL dvds on a multi region DVD player.

Thanks for any info.

Gordon

I tried "MaxDVD to MPEG" for conversation of a PAL dvd to an NTSC dvd and it worked fine, not the best but reasonable quality.

[NG]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I assume with either of these methods the menus are lost?

[spectroelectro]

Yes, the menus typically get lost whenever you rip a DVD, along with extras, unless you rip the "lost scenes" or extras and then add them in
along with menu optionts to get to 'em.
There is nothing difficult about PAL to NTSC conversion. It's just time consuming. What you must do is:
(A) Rip the VOBs to a single large VOB file on your hard drive.
(B) demux the VOB into video and audio elementary streams;
(C) conver the video stream into AVI and the audio stream into WAV;
(D) use a good MPEG-2 encoder (Mainconcept or CCE or TMPG) to re-encode the PAL video into 720 x 480 with 29.97 fps.
This always works, but it does take time. However, there are no visible artifacts, and the output should look identical to the input on your TV set.

[FulciLives]

Here is a website that you NEED to check out:

http://www.geocities.com/xesdeeni2001/StandardsConversion/

Also you should read this thread:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=160433

That should give you all the info you need to do the PAL to NTSC conversion.

Good Luck

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[NG]

I've been keeping menus nicely with DVDshrink so I've just gotton used to them I suppose however if they have to be lost then that's how it goes.

Thanks spectroelectro and FulciLives for the information. I'll give them a good reading when I'm back from class.

Cheers!
Gordo

[FOO]

I just finished doing a PAL to NTSC where I had to edit it.

1. Rip DVD to HD and determine what parts you want.
2. Demux video and audio from VOBs with Vobedit (demux complete title set)
3. Convert 25fps AC3 audio to 23.976 WAV with Besweet
3. Load video (m2v) with Vdubmpg and load audio -> wav audio.
4. Check for and fix possible audio sync offset.
5. Apply resize filter to 720 x 480 (bicubic)
5. Mark desired section.
6. Frameserve to TMPGenc set to 720 x480 (23.976 fps internally 29.97)
(do not framerate conversion) & (pulldown on playback)

do 3 - 6 above for each part you want.

7. Grab a still of the main menu as a BMP and erase the buttons (Paint Shop)

Author in whatever with menu still as background.

Note that you now have a movie with MP2 audio. I do that on purpose
so as not to piss off the Authoring programs with AC3