PAL to NTSC, Menu, Chapters

[heretic754]

I'm really wracking my brain with this. I've got several problems trying to do one project (PAL DVD to NTSC). This is not a DVD I can just go and buy in NTSC (trust me, I would if I could).

I've got the main movie in NTSC now, but all the chapters are gone. I tried making chapters with DVDRemake Pro and came out with VOB files that wouldn't play. I cannot make chapters with TMPGEnc DVD Author like I usually do because that only allows one audio steam, whereas I have two. Do you have any suggestions about making chapter breaks?

Can you convert a menu to NTSC? The menu's attributes are PAL, and even when I change its attributes to NTSC with the IfoEdit "patch method" my DVD recorder still says the disc is incompatable.

So that's my problem. I need an NTSC menu, NTSC movie, with chapters, and two audio streams. Possible or impossible?

[manono]

I need an NTSC menu, NTSC movie, with chapters, and two audio streams. Possible or impossible?

Quite possible. Whether or not you can do it, given your level of expertise, is another thing entirely. It becomes much easier if you don't need the original menus converted to NTSC, but can use some created for you by an authoring program, perhaps using video or BMPs you've encoded or grabbed from the source PAL DVD.

Here's the way to do it that costs a lot of money because it requires Scenarist (plus some knowledge):

http://www.ntsc2pal.hostrocket.com/FramesetPOS2.htm

Other than that, I'd suggest reencoding the menus (if motion menus) for NTSC the way you did the movie, or saving out BMPs if they're static menus, or if static menus are OK for you, and using one of the free authoring programs, such as GUI4DVDAuthor, or DVDAuthorGUI. And it might be better if you feed them elementary streams (M2V and AC3) rather than muxed VOBs or MPGs, especially if you now want to add in chapters (something you should have done during your first attempt at authoring).

[TBoneit]

What version of TDA. I seem to remember in TDA 3 support for two audio streams.

[victoriabears]

why anyone would go to all this bother always fails me, get a dvd player that plays pal on a ntsc TV,

[Pinstripes23]

why anyone would go to all this bother always fails me, get a dvd player that plays pal on a ntsc TV,

Well for me, I loan out dvd's to friends and family, so having an ntsc copy of a dvd is more practical. Plus I've done it enough times now to know how to do it, so it's not like it's a "bother" for me.

[heretic754]

why anyone would go to all this bother always fails me, get a dvd player that plays pal on a ntsc TV,

That's the lazy way, and it wouldn't work for me since this is not a simple DVD player, but a DVD recorder with all the necessary sound system hookups.

I'm doing it the second laziest way. Not caring about original menus. I'm going to make them with TDA 3 (thanks TBoneit).

Numenu4u and Scenarist are hitting errors. It wouldn't load the scrips automatically, then I would have had to remove ASPI files, etc. I can follow instructions but I lack will power.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

[tinker]

I have done a few PAL to NTSC conversions, because like you said, they are not available in NTSC.
You can do all the menus and feature in TMPGEnc Xpress to convert, than import to DVD Lab Pro to reauthor DVD with menus, chapter menus and all. Looks like original.