Pal SVCD to NTSC DVD quickly.

[claymca]

Ok. I have followed a few of the guides to put SVCD on DVD-or+R.
Those have worked. I have also converted to DVD mpeg2. However I am looking for a way to a quick and easy way to put PAL SVCD to NTSC DVD-R. I need them in NTSC to be able to play on my playstation 2. I say quickly because when i followed the guide that calls for you to use the AVS script and started TMPGENC it said it woul take over 90 hrs to complete. And I am running AMD athlon at 1.0gHz. Is there a quicker and easier way out there?

[DJRumpy]

Not with TMPGenc. 90 hours is a bit extreme, even for TMPgenc. You should look at some of the faster encoders, like CCE Basic, or Main Concept. They will give you much faster encodes.

If you want faster still, I'd suggest an upgrade was definately in order for your PC. The newer processors can encode at faster than realtime. An SVCD takes about 20 minutes to encode on my pc (PIV 2.4Ghz), using CCE.

[Bodyslide]

I use Tmpeg to do Pal(SVCD) to NTSC(DVD-R), and it took for a 100 minute movie it took 3 hours to convert. This is what I have always used.

[DJRumpy]

Possibly with a 2.4 Ghz or faster, and no filtering enabled and a 'fast' or better motion search. I haven't used TMPGenc to encode in over a year. I'd be curious to see how it performs on a PIV. Surely someone here can give an estimate for the length of time it takes to encode a 60 minute clip, what motion search setting their using, and what processor speed/type. This, of course, assumes that all filtering is off.

TMPGenc is one of the slowest encoders out there. MC, and CCE will run circles around it. CCE could do the same 100 minute clip in 30 minutes, rather than 3 hours on my PC.

[claymca]

I have CCE. How do you use it to go from PAL SVCD to NTSC DVD?

[DJRumpy]

CCE is an encoder only. It does very limited editing (of which PAL to NTSC is not one). You must edit your input before encoding in CCE. The tool of choice is AVIsynth, but you can also use VirtualDub to change the framerate of your input. You can use BeSweet to change the framerate of your audio.

[muse]

Canopus Procoder is worth looking at. Conversion quality is excellent. Provides all the NTSC/PAL options you require.