Ok I know there are tons of discussions about converting pal to ntsc and vice versa, but my situation is slightly different. First of all before I start, I just want to say that I'm not a video nut and by all means don't much at all about video, so if I say something that is totally wrong, or remotely wrong, just politely correct me and I'll learn.
I have successfully converted a pal dvd video to ntsc (following instructions from here), but the problem is that the NTSC output seems stretched, since pal widescreen is 720x576 and ntsc widescreen is 720x480. The original PAL dvd is widescreen, and I noticed that if I set it to 4:3 ratio in CCE, the video is more true to the original PAL size. The problem with that is that it automatically adds black space to the bottom of the video, it does not evenly distribute it between the top AND bottom. So my first question is: Is it possible to even distribute it?
Now, to add to that, I have to add a logo to the bottom-right corner of the video. I figured that out, by using the ImageSequence plugin for AVISynth. Here is my AVISynth script:
The logo seems to work fine, but as it is currently, it adds the logo to the bottom of the original video and not on the letterbox section, which is where I would ideally like it to go. Would I have to add the letterbox using the AVISynth script? If so, how would I do it?Code:LoadPlugin("DGDecode.dll") LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\ImageSequence.dll") video = MPEG2Source("G:\VIDEO\arrex-3d.d2v") logo = ImageSource("G:\VIDEO\logo.bmp") logomask = ImageSource("G:\VIDEO\logomask.bmp") Overlay(video, logo, mask=logomask) ConvertToYUY2() LanczosResize(720,480)
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Widescreen can be 4:3. If it looks more "normal" after being encoded for 4:3, it probably was 4:3 to begin with. To save yourself extra work you might figure out what you have before encoding.
The problem with that is that it automatically adds black space to the bottom of the video, it does not evenly distribute it between the top AND bottom. So my first question is: Is it possible to even distribute it?
Would I have to add the letterbox using the AVISynth script? If so, how would I do it?
http://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Overlay
And it's usually suggested that you do all the filtering in the original YV12 before doing the colorspace conversion. -
I can't help you as I don't do PAL<->NTSC conversion. Not worth it in my opinion as converting DVD players are pretty cheap these days.
However, I do want to commend you for an excellent first post for newbie. Well done! Usually around here a new person with your problem would say "I'm trying to convert a PAL DVD to NTSC and it isn't working. Why?" and that would be all they would say. Unfortunately, this isn't really the right forum location for your post. Newbie Conversion would be better, although Advanced Conversion would be OK too as this is an advanced conversion topic. You may yet get help here, even though it's the wrong forum for what you are doing, but if not, please just post this again in one of the forums I suggested. I'm sure someone here can definitely help you with this as you told us exactly what you are doing and what your goal is and there are people here who do this kind of conversion.
Since you actually posted a well documented question for a newbie, I want to encourage you to consider hanging around and if nothing else just reading the forums after you get helped. You can learn a lot just by reading, even if you never post another question. You seem like a good forum member potentially and it would be a shame to see you do what so many do which is post one question, get an answer, leave and then return 5 years later with an incredibly elementary question that you would have already known the answer to if you had only kept up with the forums since you first joined. -
Originally Posted by atomicrabbit
In more detail. You are encoding to 25fps with NTSC picture size. 'For DVD' means that for PAL framerate PAL frame size will be forced by CCE for making a PAL DVD compliant file. With internal resizing disabled this means that your 720x480 will be encoded within 720x576 with corresponding horizontal black borders and the original image will be horizontally stretched. If you see borders of different height after encoding, search for border(s) in original picture (if there were no borders, you'd see them added symmetrically). Possibly the source video is letterboxed (you say it looks more correct at 4:3). In this case you could centre it after resizing by cropping and adding fresh borders (totally as much as cropped in pixels) using AddBorders() command. -
Originally Posted by manono
Originally Posted by manono
Originally Posted by jman98
Now to answer your first comment. I don't think it's worth it either, although two things come to mind:
1) I have to add a logo watermark to the video anyways, so I figured I might as well convert it to NTSC at the same time.
2) The answer(s) to this question will also help me with another "project" I need to work on. my grandmother go a region-free PAL DVD from Italy about the Pope, and it does not play in her DVD player. Not sure if it's because it's an old dvd player, but it just doesn't play it. Regardless, I will probably have to convert it to NTSC so she can watch it on her DVD player. -
Well I opened the dvd in DGIndex as explained in the tutorial I linked to in my first post. It said that it was a 16:9 Progressive PAL dvd
And No there is not already letterboxing in the original source DVD. Should there be?
...but is NTSC widescreen not thinner than PAL widescreen?
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