Converting PAL DVD to NTSC DVD

[marcus2704]

Ive a whole bunch of DVDs that I compile which I want to convert to NTSC to simplify things for people who purchase them from me who live in the US.

There are 50+ tracks on each DVD, and I want to be able to preserve these so that people can flick to the ones they want easily.

Can you recommend software/guide on how I can do this?

[Baldrick]

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1503130#1503130

[marcus2704]

Thanks for the links, but, other than reading through 40+ pages of confusing information is there a program which will convert this for me keeping tracks intact?

[hech54]

It is a LOT of work.
Best way is to buy a converting DVD player and re-record the signal to a DVD Recorder.


IMO

[marcus2704]

Agreed, it looks like it - I bet even if I did manage to convert it Id be unable to preserve the track index's.

[Barnabas]

marcus2704,

This question comes up all the time on the forums, but there is no simple way to convert a PAL DVD to an NTSC DVD. It must be reencoded and menus are lost, and the framerate difference makes the time different.

SVCD2DVD does a fairly decent job of converting PAL SVCD's to to NTSC.

[Bjs]

Some of those conversion guide's are simply to much for newbies ... and some are , if not all , inaccurate in one way or another .

Grab a copy of ulead video studio 9 se in ebay cheap .
Dose almost anything you need , including perfect frame rate conversion's with audio in sync .

Another one I was messing with the other day was GUI4FFMPEG conveted 15fps to 25fps , though audio need's minor adjustment ... still testing , but might be the thing if you is looking at doing it for free .

Just encoded a dv2 avi , pal 720x576 to nstc , vcd 352x240 at 29.971fps ... perfect .
Output's dvd , svcd , vcd and mpeg4 (avi , not as in nero's mp4) .

Look's like my previous test was my screwup ... complained about missing oog.dll , something like that .

Guide in current process ...

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Basically for now :

Rip all your clips (50) to hd
Encode to required format using gui4ffmpeg

Extra's :

Batchdemux each clip to seperate video and audio (using batchdemux , an actual tool)
Encode audio to ac3 using besweet

Menu :

Use vobedit to demux menu by cell id
Convert to required format
If audio , repeat as for title's as mentioned above .

Menu button's :

Use subrip to rip these
Follow this guide to reconvert them back - https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=285839

Rebuild :

Use dvdauthorgui , of course set to nstc before you get started .
Author when ready to folder .
Use pgcedit to edit navigational command's to requirement's (check some of my guide's out) .

Final :

Play test for authoring error's first .

Need a player : Koolplaya + freedvdcodec + ac3filter package (work's with dvd's or folder's on hd)

For nt2000/me/win98se/win98gold/win98 user's :

Ifoedit + freedvdcodec + ac3filter package (look's like nt2000 has something worthy)
(it's my dell notebook) .

If not all work's well , recheck navigational command's with pgcedit , then retest .
(ifoedit report's these error's , but it crash's on xp system's) .

Burn with nero or imgburn , by lightning uk ...

Enjoy ... should keep many busy for now .