Transcoding PAL v/s NTSC?

[wulf109]

Does PAL's 720x576 frame size vs NTSC's 720x480 lead to slightly poorer transcodes to 4.37GB DVDr?

[guns1inger]

The resizing of the frames isn't great, especially if you have interlaced source. Resizing interlaced footage badly will give you all sorts of artifacts.

But you also have to be careful with the method you use to change your frame rate from PAL (25 fps) to NTSC (23.976 or 29.970 fps).

If this is a one-off exercise then it may be worth doing. If you have a collection of PAL discs you are far better off buying a cheap multi-format player so you don't have to do all the work that format conversion entails.

If you do want to do it correctly in software, this is probably the definitive post : https://forum.videohelp.com/topic300144.html - read through all of it first because it does get refined as the thread goes on, and it starts to cover better tools such as HCEnc.