Urgent NTSC to PAL Conversion help

[toastedpenguin]

I've just completed burning my class project onto a dvd but my dvd authoring program won't let me burn to PAL which plays on most TV's in New Zealand. I am stuck with an NTSC DVD which won't play, Is there any Dvd Copy Software available where I can copy my NTSC dvd and make a backup onto PAL format?

Any help would be good.

[FulciLives]

I've just completed burning my class project onto a dvd but my dvd authoring program won't let me burn to PAL which plays on most TV's in New Zealand. I am stuck with an NTSC DVD which won't play, Is there any Dvd Copy Software available where I can copy my NTSC dvd and make a backup onto PAL format?

Any help would be good.

First of all ... how was the project started? Did it begin as NTSC or did it begin as PAL?

I do not understand how you start out in PAL only to have a DVD authoring program refuse to "burn it" unless you started out in NTSC (keeping it that way through to the end) or somehow (???) started out in PAL and converted to NTSC by the end, burning, step.

In short we need a lot more details here to help.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[toastedpenguin]

I have used cyberlink powerdirector to create my MPEG-2 Files which were saved as NTSC. I then used Sonic DVDit so I can have DVD menus etc and the program won't import them unless they are PAL files. I have to make an NTSC dvd for it to burn.

[FulciLives]

I have used cyberlink powerdirector to create my MPEG-2 Files which were saved as NTSC. I then used Sonic DVDit so I can have DVD menus etc and the program won't import them unless they are PAL files. I have to make an NTSC dvd for it to burn.

OK so the source files started out as NTSC so it makes sense now that you cannot make a PAL DVD because NTSC is NTSC not PAL.

You need to convert the NTSC to PAL but since you used PowerDirector you now have an interlaced 29.970fps NTSC MPEG-2 and that is the hardest conversion there is (to convert that to 25fps PAL format).

There are some guides and threads on here about how to do this.

Search through the guides and search through the forums.

I wish you luck but I have no actual "real-world" experience actually doing this particular type of conversion so I cannot help you further.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman