DVD PAL to DVD NTSC

[EOrozco]

best (and fastest) way to convert a PAL DVD to NTSC DVD ? (complete with menus).

[DoubleShadowIce]

Don't know about best or fast but here's a thread at Doom9 you could look into.

[FulciLives]

Hello

These two links pretty much give you all the info you need to know:

1.) http://www.geocities.com/xesdeeni2001/StandardsConversion/

2.) https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=160433

Good Luck !!!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[pijetro]

This needs looking into. I haven't seen a fast way yet. Heck, ripping, and AVISynth frameserving to CCE is about the fastest it gets. I would be safe to bet that menu and overlay conversions are probably even more tedious..

Going beyond what poor Fulcilives tries to tell everybody about the guts of PAL to NTSC, and the miracle of AVISynth, I would think that it's time that somebody could give perhaps a detailed guide for Menu, and Overlay conversion..


BTW, great thread, http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50052 . Although, I still personally need a guide that would be dumbed down a notch...

[zeub]

Well I did it this way. I ripped the DVD with DVD decrypter in IFO I mode with stream processing and in raw mode. Just a note no menus or chapters with this method. Once ripped I used Mainconcept MPEG Encoder and set it to Trensport(Video) and in advanced used the Variable bitrate at 6500. For the audio I used BeSweet and AC3 to AC3 with conversion from PAL to NTSC option checked. Once done I put everything into TMPGEnc DVD Author, made my own chapters and menu and made a new DVD. No sync probs or anything. I am going to play around with this and also using Maestro to get everything converted and will make a guide.

[pijetro]

Thanx for your effort, but as the original post asks, ( and my burning question), how can we simple folk get the menus, and overlays resized to NTSC, and have an authouring program put back together all the relevent chapter, subtitle, and PGC's like the original...
It's one thing to encode a group of Vob's to .m2v with AVISynth, and reauthor in DVDLAB, but how can we get the reencoded .m2v streams back together, with the changed chapter, and subtitle points and audio to duplicate the original PAL source??

This one's a definite challenger......I'm guessing the order would be like this:
1) For us dummies, rip movie to H.D. with DVD Shrink.
2) Convert all the .VOB title sets individually for NTSC.(AVISynth and DVD2AVI).
3) Demux the audio streams, and transcode (DVD2AVI and BeSweet)
4) Extract the chapters, and renumber them for the slowed down video. (Chapter Xtractor)
5) Extract the subtitles and correct the points of display (VobSub)
6) Resize the menus and overlays (PhotoShop)
7) Put it back into Maestro for reauthouring.

As for the original question, my ass hurts from lurking on all the sites for this same info., so the quick answer would be NO....

[proxyx99]

Best and fastest? Buy a DVD player with "PAL playback on NTSC TV" like JVC. You are set rightaway, no more Avisynth.

[Deisel Weisel]

Canopus Procoder Express (£39). Not sure if it takes care of the menus though.

[proxyx99]

Looks like Canopus understands the danger coming from file converters popping up almost every week. Too bad that Pinnacle has somehow abandoned TRex, one great app with v.good quality. Nobody needs to learn all the intricacies of MPEG encoding with this tool. Result is what really counts. I like the idea and if the quality is there what more do you need.....