Help: VCD resolution to DVD...

[keesio]

Hi,
I have a bunch of mpegs at 352x288 (PAL) MPEG1 resolution with a bitrate of ~1800. I want to stuff the all on to a DVD (NTSC). Should I convert them to 352x240 MPEG2 or 720x480 MPEG2? What is recommended? Does it really matter? I use ULEAD MF3 for DVD authoring.

Thanks!

[ZippyP.]

They are dvd compliant as-is, author away.

[gadgetguy]

Not that simple, they need to be converted from PAL to NTSC 352x240, audio may need to be converted as well.

[ZippyP.]

My DVD player (Pioneer) plays back pal. You might want to try and find a player that will play pal as well b/c converting pal to ntsc is a PIA.

Guides here: https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?howtoselect=4;41#4;41

[keesio]

Thanks for all the feedback guys. So it sounds like as long as have my audio DVD compliant, 352x240 MPEG2 is a good choice? I have SW that will do MEPG conversion and can handle 352x288 MPEG1 to 352x240 MPEG2 (and make the audio compliant)

[redwudz]

If you wanted to leave them PAL, then it's an easy conversion. If you put them into TMPGEnc DVD Author, I believe it will convert the sound to 48K and author the files to PAL DVD spec. If you want to convert them to NTSC, that is a fair bit more complicated, as stated.

Never used it specifically for that, but VSO DivxToDVD might work for the conversion from PAL to DVD NTSC. It would certainly be easier.

[gadgetguy]

Sorry, didn't mean to imply that all you have to do is change the framesize to convert from PAL to NTSC as it requires a framerate conversion as well, so you'd have to make adjustments to the audio whether it was already at 48K or not.