7 PAL VCD --> 1 NTSC DVD video quality poor, please help

[jh6393]

Hi everyone, I have 7 VCDs with Pal format. And I’d like to backup to dvd-r. Have read tons of information on this web site and have done many tests on dvd-rw, here is my test result :

1) https://www.videohelp.com/vcddvdr.htm: Video quality is poor on my first try with PAL format. Then I used another set of NTSC vcd with the same procedure. I received worse results. Guessing movie factory 2 did bad encoding.

2) www.doom9.org/mpg/svcd2dvdr.htm : Complicated steps, never got BeSweet Gui worked, give up…

3) TMPGEnc encode pal vcd to ntsc format --> TMPGEnc dvd authoring --> nero burning express : get better result, but video quality still have 10-15% degradation.

I know there is no way to get rid of video degradation after encoding, however ntsc vcd only have 352x240 29.97fps, the 10-15% downgrade will make video quality very poor. pal vcd 352x288 25fps video looks much better then ntsc vcd, but I have to convert to ntsc vcd then to ntsc dvd.

Pal vcd is playing fine on my dvd player but Pal dvd can not (I live in US).

Here is my question,
1) Is it possible that I could use 4.7gb dvd capacity for backing up seven 700mb vcd without converting/authoring? I need to put vcd format into dvd media.
2) How do we keep video quality as original ? or even improve the video quality. Does it help of changing video bitrate or any other better way?
3)Will svcd involve this backup operation help the video quality?

Any info would be very much appreciated...
Thanks....


Jen

[Tommyknocker]

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[jh6393]

Hi Tommyknocker, thanks for the reply. But the link you gave me is the first try I had used. Any other idea? Thank you.

[TBoneit]

I have found that I can just add them as VDC format (or even still as the filename.dat straight from the cd into TMPGenc DVD author (NTSC anyway) and it recodes only the audio into 48Khz and they look the same when I play them. Worth a try as it is a 30 day trial.

I'd try them into a PAL DVD, if it is set to this region it may play... I know that my Apex will play them into my NTSC Tv just fine. Burn onto a DVD RW disk for testing.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck
Roger T