DV->DVD PAL/NTSC with CCE

[vanderbog]

Hi guys,
Please give me a hand with this:
-I have a miniDV camcorder; I capture the .avi on my hard-drive;
-Now, I want to make a DVD compliant mpeg2 from the same .avi, once in NTSC format for me and second in PAL format to send it overseas.
-I have CCE and I find that is the best encoder from all.
How do I do this in CCE ? Apparently, there is no NTSC/PAL selector for the output mpeg2.
If any of you guys have a few moments to help a "sad newbie" in need, it would be greatelly appreciated.
Thanks guys !

[guns1inger]

You don't say what the original format is, but I am assuming NTSC. Unless you know for sure that your friend cannot play NTSC, I wouldn't bother. Most European and Australian DVD players and TVs will quite happily play NTSC material.

Otherwise, I would use virtualdub to change the size and framerate to match PAL (ie, increase resolution to 576 and framerate to 25 fps). It will make the film run slightly faster, but will be a lot cleaner than trying to add on frame per second.

[BJ_M]

procoder does a MUCH better job of this than CCE

[vanderbog]

Thanks a lot guys,
So you're saying that a PAL tv would be happy to play NTSC ? I thought it plays b/w an NTSC input.
It would be much easyer for me to just leave it in NTSC.
Anyway, thanks again.
I'll try Procoder too.

[guns1inger]

Pretty much any PAL TV built in the last 5 years is capable of displaying multi-format source. Failing that, most (if not all) PAL DVD players will convert NTSC source to PAL, or pseudo-PAL, which most PAL TV's can cope with.

[FulciLives]

Xesdeeni's method works well for this.

There is guide here by Xesdeeni and many posts on it (most by me).

Just do a forum search.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[FulciLives]

Here is a sample AviSynth 2.5x script for use with CCE. This will convert your NTSC DV AVI to PAL format.

LoadPlugin("Convolution3d.dll")
LoadPlugin("SmoothDeinterlacer.dll")
avisource("D:\CAPTURE\ntscdvfile.avi")
Trim(40068,59476)
crop(8,-8,8,-8)
SeparateFields()
odd=SelectOdd.Convolution3D (0, 6, 10, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
evn=SelectEven.Convolution3D (0, 6, 10, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
Interleave(evn,odd)
Weave()
DoubleWeave.SelectEven()
AddBorders(8,8,8,8)
SmoothDeinterlace(tff=false, doublerate=true)
LanczosResize(720,576)
ChangeFPS(50)
SeparateFields()
SelectEvery(4,1,2)
Weave()
ConvertToYUY2(interlaced=true)

You will need AviSynth 2.5x along with the AviSynth 2.5x versions of Smoothdeinterlacer and Convolution3D (the YUY2 version not the YV12 version).

You can get your trim values using the script editing function found in VirtualDubMod ... my GUIDE HERE explains how to do that part.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
When you input your AviSynth script into CCE treat it as if it is a Full D1 resolution (720x576) 25fps PAL source.