PAL to NTSC

[downwardzspiral]

So it's been quite some time since I've been in on these forums, but I just recently purchased a DVD set for my girlfriend of her old favorite childhood tv show. Unfortunately it was only released in the UK and being here in the US, it obviously wont play on standard DVD players and I would prefer to not to have to force her to exclusively watch it on her PC. I have a general idea of what needs to be done (resizing the resolution as well as changing the frame rate) but exactly the method to do so is something I am unfamiliar with as I have never had a need to do such a conversion in the past

[SallyDog]

Buy a cheap player that will play PAL. That's your best bet ;)

[downwardzspiral]

That is exactly what i was trying to avoid having to do. In doing so, that would limit where it was watchable to just a single tv. Plus that would require buying another DVD player despite already owning some. A few years back, when I had much more time on my hands, I use to backup many of my movies using the Big 3 (DoItFast4U, NuMenu4u, Scenaid and BatchCCEWS) method. I still have these programs somewhere on my hdd. Couldn't I just add scripts in somewhere to utilize AviSynth or something to handle the conversion from PAL to NTSC using that same method? Or even just using AviSynth somehow without having to use cce since DVD-9 discs are dirt cheap now.

[manono]

If menus aren't important to you, resize to 720x480 (if interlaced you'll have to do it in an interlace-aware manner), encode for 25fps and then apply DGPulldown for 25->29.97fps. You can't apply pulldown to interlaced videos, though, so, if interlaced you'll have to deinterlace. The advantage of doing it this way is that the length stays the same and you can use the original untouched audio. Author with Muxman when done. If you want chapters, either create new ones or convert the original 25fps ones to 29.97fps frames (for use in Muxman).