PAL to NTSC?

[Ray_D_O]

Is it possible to take a PAL movie and convert it to NTSC? Would you do it through TMPGenc? Or is there a different method?

Thanks

[MvB]

Please search the forum before you ask! There are a lot of threads about this topic.

Anyway, what shall anybody do with this question? What format is your movie? Please be more specific (after searching)

[Ray_D_O]

I did search... and couldn't find the answer... what I'm asking is, if I purchase a PAL DVD (because it's not available in NTSC)... can I rip it and convert it to NTSC format to burn to dvd-r?

[MvB]

yes.

If you only want to convert the movie without the menu and the extras, it's relative easy.
Extract the ac3 audio from the main movie.

For the audio part you can use besweet (newest version - Thanks DSPGURU! -) to convert the 25 FPS ac3 into an 23.976 ac3 (should be about 4% longer).

To do the video, you have to make an avisynth script that takes the projectfile of your vobs (like in dvd2svcd)

Add a line with AssumeFPS(23.976,true)
and resize the 720x576 PAL picture to 720x480 and feed the whole thing into CCE or tmpgenc. Recompress.

Use pulldown.exe to create the appropriate flags for telecine.

After that you can author a new dvd with your favourite DVD-Authoring program in NTSC (720x480).

There are a lot more possibilies to convert a PAL DVD to NTSC. You can make it as complicated as you want, maybe with better results.
I only use this way to convert PAL DVDs to NTSC SVCDs, because they are running then nearly at the correct speed. Hope i didn't forget something.