NTSC 8mm Home Video to PAL DVD

[abeesmathi]

I am going to send some of my NTSC home videos to my PAL relatives. So, it needs NTSC 8mm tape converted to PAL system. Since I cannot check my final product here, I need your advice on the conversion process that might actually work. Here is the process I was thinking to try:

1. Using Canon 8mm camcorder, capture AVI source at 688x480 with iuvcr (Thanks to John “FulciLives” Coleman advice since my capture card is AverTV stereo card with official driver and iuvcr is the only program that let me capture more than 352 x 240 with interlaced field);

2. Convert AVI source in NTSC to PAL system with TMPGEnc plus. For this I am going to use the guide from here: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=222898.

2a) The problem is how to “padd” the capture with 16 pixels of black on the left and 16 pixels of black on the right to make the width 720 (need some real help on this one). Here is my setting:

VIDEO Tab:
Stream Type: MPEG-2 Video;
Size: 720 x 576 (for PAL)
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 (I have already tried 16:9, in which picture looks fat and short)
Frame Rate: 25
Video Format: PAL

Advanced Tab:
Video Source Type: Interlaced
Field Order: (As determined by TMPGEnc during “Wizard” run)
Source Aspect Ratio: 4:3 525 line (NTSC)
Video Arrange Method: Center (keep aspect ratio)

Is my setting correct? If yes, how and where the “padding” is enabled?

Appreciate any help guys.

EEBA

[abeesmathi]

OK. I was doing little search and found something that might help my case.

From here: http://www.geocities.com/xesdeeni2001/StandardsConversion/ got the AVI script to convert NTSC 29.97i DVD to PAL 25i DVD.

LoadPlugin("MPEG2DEC.dll")
LoadPlugin("SmoothDeinterlacer.dll")
MPEG2Source("DRIVE:\PATH\VTS_xx_x.d2v")
SeparateFields()
Weave()
SmoothDeinterlace(doublerate=true)
ConvertFPS(50) # or ChangeFPS(50)
LanczosResize(720,576)
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4,1,2)
ConvertToRGB()

However, mine is NTSC 29.97i AVI source at 688x480. So to me, “MPEG2Source” is not applicable. I will replace it with “AVISource” command. What else needs to be changed here?

Thanks

EEBA

[abeesmathi]

Could some post AVI Script to convert NTSC interlaced source captured at 688x480 to 720x576 PAL DVD?

Thanks

EEBA

[abeesmathi]

After little research, I find a way to convert my 688x480 to 720x480, by adding 16 pixels to right and 16 to left. Here is the AVI Script

LoadPlugin("MPEG2DEC.dll")
LoadPlugin("SmoothDeinterlacer.dll")
Avisource("MyCapture.avi")
AddBorder(16,0,16,0) # converts 688x480 to 720x480
SeparateFields()
Weave()
SmoothDeinterlace(doublerate=true)
ConvertFPS(50) # or ChangeFPS(50)
LanczosResize(720,576) # resize to PAL resolution
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4,1,2)
ConvertToRGB() (TMPGEnc) or ConvertToYUY2() (CCE)

Can some one check my script? Is there anything need to be changed?

Thanks

EEBA