NTSC (23.976 fps) to PAL (25 fps) conversion - possible?

[tivi]

Hi togehther!

I did some search. But I did not find a workaround....
Seems that opinions are a little bit contradictory.

Could someone help me?

I want to do an AVI2SVCD conversion of an AVI file with the
following properties:

Framesize: 640 x 272
Frames p. sec.: 23,976


cu

tivi

[markrb]

Hmm I wonder if that NTSC to PAL button means anything? Actually I don't know if it works for avi's. Also your video size is non standard and may cause DVD2SVCD problems.

Mark

[tivi]

Hi mark!

I edit the resize-option in avisynth manually - that works.....

But will the converted movie be "shorter" than the original one?


cu

tivi

[markrb]

There was some talk of this awhile back in the SVCD forum and the general thinking was that it would be shorter. I base this on the idea that PAL movies are shorter then their NTSC original by a few percentage points even with studio movies. They don't bother changing anything, but the framerate since the difference is so slight.

Mark

[Juhan]

PAL movies are 4% (25/24=1,04) shorter (faster) than NTSC. Some people have noticed that audio sounds better with NTSC movies since PAL audio is faster and is resampled to sound like normal again.

[tivi]

INCREDIBLE!

I didn't knew that!

Thanks guys. I took for example " THE MATRIX ":

runtime NTSC 136 min
runtime PAL 131 min
Ratio ~ 1,04

OK! Now conversion can begin.....

cu

tivi

[josiba]

So did you use that NTSC to PAL option in D2S?
What does it do anyway?