Help needed on sound ntsc -> Pal

[mikt]

Hi,

i try to convert a ntsc avi to pal dvd.
What I do is:

change video framerate to 25fps (avifrate)
convert mp3 audio to 48khz mp2 audio (besweet)
convert mp2 48khz audi to mp2 25fps 48khz Audio (besweet)
tmpeg video
ifoedit author my dvd

It works fine except for a lousy sound after converting audio to 25fps.
It sounds like they sit in metall box in some passages.

What can I do to get a high quality sound (or a higher quality than now)

I read through some guides and now my head hurts, there are so many ways but most of them tell me to use besweet.

Maybee there is some wrong thing in what i do, so please help me out!

Thanks a lot!

[CaptainC]

Try extracting the audio to a 48khz stereo wav file correcting only the Frame rate with besweet and converting to a stereo wave, Load audio into Tmpeg with AVI change in the Environmental options to use too lame as the audio encoder dont use Tmpegs own its not great quality. Let Too Lame encode the audio in TMPEG there is a plugin version for Tmpeg in the tools section

[antoniosgubba]

I too convert NTSCfilm to PAL before encoding...I find the resulatant SVCDs I make play much smoother on my DVD player this way.
First I stick the AVI through virtualdub and extract the audio to a separate WAV, then, still using virtualdub, I convert the video only to 25fps (audio...no audio, video...direct stream copy/framerate).
Then I stick the WAV through Goldwave and use the timewarp function to convert it to the exact same time as the newly produced 25fps video....just make sure you find out the EXACT length of the 25fps video, to within an accuracy of one second is not enough...take total frames (find out in virtualdub)...divide by 25, then divide by 60 to get running time in minutes...(remember that 0.25 minutes is NOT 25 seconds though...but 15 seconds!),,this will give you the exact running time of the video to within 1000th second.

Then you will have a 25fps video and a separate WAV file of exactly the same length...use these as the sources in TMPGenc, using a PAL template for whatever you want to produce.

Using this method produces beautifully smooth SVCDs for me with NO sync problems.

Gubba.

[mikt]

Thanks!

Goldwave was a 100% tip!