352X288 PAL to NTSC

[3_2_DVD]

I have a 352X288 PAL wedding video to convert to NTSC. The video is about one and a quarter hour long but I have all of the 4.7GB DVD space to make the most out of it. The video is non-interlaced at a frame rate of 25FPS and of RGB colour format. To convert this to NTSC the following questions came to mind.

What resolution (h x v) must the final product be bearing in mind that resolution cannot be created but neither would I like to loose viewable resolution due to the line resolution conversion process.

How do I convert the frame rate without making the pastor sound like Donald Duck.

Do I create an interlaced or a non interlaced DVD?

This is what I have done and it does not look too bad:

Created an AVI from the DVD’s VOB file using VirtualDub
Converted the frame resolution to 704X480 using Avisynth’s Lanczos4Resize
Converted the frame rate to 59.94FPS using ConvertFPS (first had to ConvertToYUY2)
Created an interlaced video using SelectEvery
Encode using TMPGenc (6000 kbps CBR to save time for the first round )

The result does not look too bad although slight combing is visible in the moving parts. Can any of the members recommend a different approach?

[guns1inger]

For framerate conversions, look here

https://www.videohelp.com/convert#4;41

[bugster]

resize to 352 * 240.

Slow down video to 23.976fps.

Slow down audio to match speed and duration.

Encode as mpeg-2 and apply 3:2 pulldown.