ripping a PAL to a NTSC DVD-R

[rsoby]

Can anyone please help me rip a PAL DVD so that it is playable on a NTSC region 1 DVD player. I have no problem with the region coding but its the PAL to NTSC conversion that I'm confused about. Thanks in advance.

[Xesdeeni]

How you convert depends on the type of source.

If the source was shot on film (i.e. the source is progressive), the way they got the 24fps into video was by speeding up the video and audio to 25fps. You want to reverse this process, and even slow it down a bit more to 23.976fps. Then you can scale it and encode it for NTSC.

If the source was shot on video (i.e. it is truly interlaced), then you want to use something like my conversion script (http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90816).

Xesdeeni

[Spanishfly]

So, if I live in Canada with NTSC Region 1 DVD's and I buy a Region 0 PAL DVD from Europe and I want to burn the PAL DVD to a NTSC DVD-R, so I can watch it with my standalone DVD player on my TV.

How do I do it?

Do I have to re-ecode? Convert?

Do I use Smartripper/DVD2AVI/TmpgEnc?

Will I lose quality?

Thanks,
SpanishFly