XVID 23 fps to DVD compliant NTSC

[Intuit]

Hello all. I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I have several movies on my HD I need to put on DVD's but have had no luck at all. I have one video that is compressed with XVID and is 23 fps. Anyone know how I can convert this to play on my dvd+R dvd player? I would like to split it into chapters as well, but to use TMPGEnc author I have to convert it first. Any ideas? The movies is over 2 hours long but only a 1.17 gigs.

[Forum Troll]

I've always opened them in Virtualdubmod then framerved to TMPGENC, then use the NTSC DVD (352x480) template. I've never had any sync issues with the audio, even with it changing it to 29.97 fps.

[adam]

I assume you mean its 23.976fps. You should never convert this to 29.97fps, that will decrease quality quite a bit. Instead set output framerate to 23.976fps (29.97fps internal) and on the encode mode set it to 3:2 pulldown while playback. This is how most commercial DVDs are encoded.

These settings I mentioned are located on the VIDEO tab. Don't confuse the 3:2 pulldown while playbay option with the 3:2 pulldown filter on the advanced tab. They do very different things.

[Intuit]

It looks as though there are some great tips there, but I'm still a noob so I'm having trouble understanding them. Adam, what program are you referring to for me to use?

[junkmalle]

Just open the AVI file in TMPGEnc (the MPEG conversion program) and use the DVD template.

[adam]

Sorry, yes I was referring to TMPGenc. You can get a fully functional demo version.

Loading the DVD template is a good start to get your general settings but without changing it you will lose a great deal of quality, and may run into problems with field order. I'd load the NTSC DVD template and then load the unlock template. On the video tab change the framerate to 23.976fps (29.97fps interal) and change the encode mode to 3:2 pulldown while playback. Set your bitrate accordingly and then encode. This will give you NTSCfilm output (23.976fps) which will be telecined to 29.97fps at playback by the DVD player. This is by far the preferred method of storing NTSC footage and how most commercial DVDs are encoded.

[junkmalle]

Those are all the default settings when you start with a 23.976 fps AVI file. That's why I didn't bother with all the details...

[adam]

Looking at TMPGEnc's latest version, it only has one NTSC DVD Template and it uses 29.97fps and interlaced for encode mode. I've never seen an NTSCfilm DVD template packaged with TMPGEnc.

If you use the wizard you can get it to change these settings for you, and TMPGenc will always try to adjust the source settings on the advanced tab according to your source, but the output settings are locked for NTSC in the default template, and must be changed manually for NTSCfilm encoding.

[junkmalle]

Looking at TMPGEnc's latest version, it only has one NTSC DVD Template and it uses 29.97fps and interlaced for encode mode. I've never seen an NTSCfilm DVD template packaged with TMPGEnc.

If you use the wizard you can get it to change these settings for you, and TMPGenc will always try to adjust the source settings on the advanced tab according to your source, but the output settings are locked for NTSC in the default template, and must be changed manually for NTSCfilm encoding.

With the version I have, if you select NTSC DVD from the Wizard, and a 23.976 fps AVI file, it will automatically convert to MPEG 2 at the same frame rate, marked for 3:2 pulldown.

[adam]

Yes that's what I just said

But if you load the NTSC DVD template (Load/NTSC DVD.mcf), instead of using the NTSC DVD setting in the wizard, then you will get video hard telecined to 29.97fps, which you definitely don't want.

I guess you were just referring to the wizard. I thought you were talking about the actual templates in the template directory.