Hi all,

I've done twice the well-known Xesdeeni's PAL to NTSC script to convert a PAL MPEG file to a NTSC MPEG file.

Results are OK, although on very fast movements, there's some flickering on screen.

Anyway, I've read that the main purpose of using this method would be to have a resulting NTSC MPEG file with the same length of the original PAL - so, for instance, a chapter file created for the PAL video should fit exactly on the NTSC video.

I have some European DVD-R's and I've been reauthoring them in both formats, so, for instance, after creating the chapter CHP file for the PAL version, it should fit perfectly on the NTSC version - but it doesn't.

My problem is : videos don't have the same lenght !
NTSC resulting file is shorter than the original PAL - just like as if I would just make a direct conversion using Vegas, for example.

Do people here have the exact same lenght on both videos ?

This is a copy of the script I've been using :

LoadPlugin("MPEG2DEC.dll")
LoadPlugin("SmoothDeinterlacer.dll")
MPEG2Source("D:\filename.d2v")
SmoothDeinterlace(doublerate=true)
LanczosResize(720,480)
ChangeFPS(59.94) # or ConvertFPS(59.94)
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4,1,2)
Weave()
ConvertToRGB()

Any guess on what is going wrong ?
Do people also get the flickering - only on very fast movements ?

Fulcilives, are you there ?

Thanks,

Zetti