Changing NTSC to PAL for SVCD

[JakoUK]

I have read to convert this way is not viable but to go PAL to NTSC is.

Can anyone point me to a tutorial (if it exists) to convert PAL to NTSC.

I have tried River Past Video Cleaner but even in WMP the pixelation, even on non moving objects, is just so bad that it isn't worth authoring to DVD.

The process is AVI Audio extracted using ffmpegGUI to AC3 then AVI Video (NTSC) convert to SVCD using TMPGenc and then to DVD-r using DVD-Lab.

However i really want to have all as PAL. If the AVI is PAL everything (obviously) is fine and the rexulting DVD-Lab generated movie is excellent
but NTSC to PAL framerate conversion is giving me a major headache.

Is there any software (Freeware or Commercial) that could convert NTSC to PAL with acceptable quality?

I have also tried Honestech MPEG Encoder 5 but that too is unacceptable quality.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

[cooljoe666]

By posting in this forum I assume that you want SVCD in Pal format. I haven't had any problems converting to Pal using TmpGenc. Just make sure you do it video output only to create an m2v file. Then take the source file (avi?) and load it into Virtualdub (choose no if vbr popsup) and save the WAV file(direct stream). The load that file into BeSweet GUI. Choose framerate 23.976>25.00fps or 29.97>25.00fps whichever is appropriate. DO NOT downsample the audio to 44,000hz. Save TO WAV. Then click the WAV2WAV(or go). If your source wav was 48000hz then after BeSweet is finished you will need to then reload the new wav into TmpGenc and re-encode with 44000hz into an Mp2 file. The mux the audio with the video.

Hope this helps.

[cooljoe666]

It quickly converted a small ntsc avi movie file to an SVCD PAL using TmpGEnc. Perfect and passes all compliance checks.