25fps PAL video to NTSC DVD - does 24fps serve any purpose?

[Tiernan]

I have a PAL VHS tape which contains a movie that was originally 100% 23.976fps film (no VT sections, etc) I'm ok with it being in PAL (even with the 4% speedup), but for the convenience of others who will want to watch the resulting DVD on non-multistandard DVD players, I thought I'd convert it to back to NTSC. I captured in 25fps PAL (720 X 576), and used TMPEGEnc to create the m2v/wav files with no attempt to account for the 4% difference. I found myself wondering - would it serve any purpose to attempt to fix that difference, and/or restore the original 24fps filmic nature of the movie, or, would it be a waste of effort, since the DVD standard assumes/forces the movie to be played back at 29.97fps anyway.

Your opinions are much appreciated.

[Meteor]

It you didn't fix it, the movie might be a bit choppy due to the loss of frames or duplication of frames depending on how you converted it back to NTSC. Try slowing it down 4% and change it back to 23.976 fps. You'll have less frames to encode and your dvd player will telecine it to 29.97 fps for proper playback.

[flaninacupboard]

plus anyone viewing on a progressive TV system (which you all will be soon if you're not already) will benefit from 24fps, the 29.97 wouldn't look very nice in comparison!