OK fellas...this is my first post and I hope I can make myself clear here as I looked everywhere and can't find much info that helps me on my specific problem. Here's the deal:

I've got some MPEG (*.MPG) movie files I took on an older Sony digital camera that I want to put on a DVD. The files were encoded by the camera are 320x240, 25 fps progressive. Now...I'm not really looking to expand the size of the movie files to 720x480 (unless there's a good and easy way!), but I just want to be able to convert them to be able to put on a DVD NTSC. Unfortunately, my standalone DVD player does NOT play PAL movies.

Obviously, there's alot of info on converting PAL to NTSC, but most of the instructions are for DVD rips or DV files, whereas in this case, I'm just dealing with dinky movie files from a digital camera.

The only way I figured out to do this the easiest way was to combine these files (into 1 movie) in Vegas (I wanted to make 1 movie with all those files anyway); kept them at their original size on a 720x480 screen...Do a "Render As" to MPEG2 (Mainconcept plugin) and set it as DVD NTSC, but changing NTSC 29.97 to NTSC 23.976 + 2:3 pulldown.

This seems to work OK, but I would like to check to see if any of you have a better solution. As I read in another post on a related topic...it looks like I won't be able to get by without re-encoding the MPEG's, so I've got it down to 1 re-encode, basically MPEG to MPEG, but at "best" setting in Vegas.

Anyway...appreciate any of your thoughts! Thanks!
sf