Converting Pal 576 x 336 to NTSC 352 x 480

[aram12]

So I got everything to encode correctly and tried a few encoding tests...the video plays fine and the the audio is synched correctly and sounds great...but I can't figure out how to resize it correctly. Using what I think are the correct settings out of FitCD I end up outputting a ridiculously wrong framesize (the video is compressed into about a third of the screen, centered in the middle, and then stretched to the top of the screen, with about a quarter screen of black below it [!])

I followed the guide on converting pal to NTSC from this site so I assume I'm doing all that correctly, I just can't figure out how to configure FitCD to give me the right dimensions...or maybe its something in TMPGEnc...any help would be appreciated...I've been working on this all day...

[aram12]

Ok explain this...

So I got so frustrated that I just decided to just take the uncompressed audio wav extracted with virtualdub and marry it to the straight up 25 frames video from the original file. I used the same steps I use with encoding SVCD's, corrected for overscan, VCD header trick, burned it and it's fine. How is that possible? I went through all these other steps using BeSweet and everything else in the guide, and I ignore all that and it plays fine? What the heck's going on? I mean it's definitely PAL...25 frames...does TMPGEnc do the conversion itself? What am I missing? What should I be looking for in the final result that might be wrong with it? The audio sounds great, the video is in the correct AR, and it's synched correctly...what could be wrong?