PAL DVD to NTSC DVD conversion

[DVantrease]

I'm looking to convert a PAL DVD (already shrunk to DVD5) to an NTSC DVD. I've searched and found many guides on this site, but they all talk about converting PAL avi or mpg or using a 'patch' method which doesn't work on all players, etc. I haven't found a guide yet for converting a full DVD from PAL to NTSC. Can anyone help?

[alsyed]

its long and winded road. if you have access to muxman or the more expensive scenarist, then you can use numenu4u for the menus, and for the movies, you could use any number of conversion methods, of which there are plenty on this site. The dgpulldown methods i think are used most and are fastest.

in any way, there is no 1 click solution for a complete ntsc<>pal dvd conversion tool, or so i believe.

[Baldrick]

read our sticky topics, https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=267229

[djelimon]

I tried the dgpulldown technique, and I came up with mixed success:

I demuxed with rejig

used dgpulldown to convert to NTSC

used BeSweet to convert from wav to mp2 for one of the 2 audio tracks.

fed the elementaries to DVDAuthorGUI

used screen capture from the originals for the chapter menu. (the software said it didn;t seem compliant, but took it anyway. Could this be it?)

Authored - plays fine on the PC

Burn with Nero.

Plays on standalone, but the picture is messed up - yellow shadow up top, blue at bottom.

What is this?

[Baldrick]

did you resize the video? you can't just use dgpulldown.

[djelimon]

did you resize the video?

Thank you sir, I will check out the guides for how to do that.

[gorevision]

I have a problem.......Im trying to convert PAL to NTSC DVD (i have done taht before with TMPGENC with good results).....yhe problem is tat TMPGENC doesnt open my *.m2v file.....dont know why because the file works when i burn a PAL DVD.......any recomendation? any program to transform the pal m2v to ntsc¿

[MistaED]

I was fooling around one day with DVDSanta since I usually use that for xvid/divx to dvd conversions. I dragged the VIDEO_TS.IFO file from a PAL telecine dvdr rip over to DVDSanta, selected the proper aspect ratio, and checked the NTSC box and hit convert. Surprisingly, it worked pretty good and didn't take very long to complete either, finishing in approximately real time. Be warned though, this will only give you a movie only conversion, leaving out extras and menu.

[GreyDeath]

Doesn't Nero 6 have some sort of PAL to NTSC conversion tool? I'm still using Nero 5.5, but a friend of mine said he had some PAL DVD's and used Nero 6 to reencode them to NTSC. Might want to look into that for an easy solution. I'm not sure on the quality though.

[gorevision]

does DVDSanta open m2v archives?

[MistaED]

I'm not sure if DVDSanta will work with m2v. I do know that you can drag avi, mpeg, and video_ts.ifo to it though.

[gorevision]

thanks for the help...i will try to multiplex de m2v and the sound with some software(not tmpgenc that doesnt work with that file...dont know why) and then I will use DVDsanta

[diddyk]

TMPGEnc should mux those files if you use simple multiplex. That is the only encoder I use because it seems to be one of the best that I have tried and I have tried many.

[gorevision]

yes...but for some reason TMPGENC refuse to open that file....I always use it to multiplex...but dont open that particulary m2v