Capturing In NTSC and convert to PAL

[LeedsStriker]

I am attempting to capture The Empire Strikes Back but if i capture it at 352 x 576 i drop frames like West Ham drop players. I tryed 352 x 480 and it works. Is it possible to cap at 352 x 480 and using tmpgenc convert to 352x576 and not have an interlace mess up? Cheers.

[LeedsStriker]

I did a ckip from The Box and it seems ok on my computer. Would it loo ok on tv?

[LeedsStriker]

Does anyone know?

[Oliver]

Try it and see. Your subject title doesn't seem to have anything to do w/ your questions. What exactly are you looking for help on?

[LeedsStriker]

What Im saying is can i convert 352x480 interlaced to 352x576 interlaced?

[johns0]

http://www.geocities.com/xesdeeni2001/StandardsConversion/index.html
The subject title and questions make sense to me.

[Oliver]

Oh, I think I understand what you're asking, LeedsStriker. I initially didn't make the connection between NTSC and PAL vertical resolutions. Within a single video format, yes, you can change the resolution w/o any problems, as long as you set the aspect ratio correctly in your encoder. Are you capturing in PAL, and just want to resize to PAL? If that's what you're doing, you should have no problem. The only thing of course is that your picture quality isn't going to improve much since the resize will have to extrapolate the pixels.
But if you're actually converting not just resolution, but video format all together, the link above should point you in the right direction as far as going from NTSC to PAL.