How to squeez PAL to NTSC in one DVD-R?

[young707]

How to reduce m2v file size to fit one DVD-R?

I am trying to encode a DVD PAL to DVD NTSC.
The length of the PAL movie is 2 hours 14 minutes.

The original PAL DVD is in one DVD-5 single layer disc ripped to 4.83GB. The video is PAL interlace, 4:3, 625 line (704x576)

I use TMPGenc to encode output movie.m2v size is 5.998 GB.
That is too big for one single DVD-R disc.

The TMPGenc setting is:
704x480 NTSC
Frame rate = 23.976
Automatic VBR
DC component precision: 8 bits
Motion search precision: Motion Estimate Search (fast)

What can I do to reduce file size and maintain reasonable good quality picture?
Is there anyway I can make this NTSC DVD similar to the original PAL DVD source?
Thank you for your advise. Jerry

[r6d2]

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Thanks in advance.

[Andykard]

I'm not sure if what you are trying to do can be done the way you are doing it. For starters your parameters are all wrong. If you have a PAL interlaced movie then the frame rate is 25fps (23.97 is film frame rate which does not apply to real interlaced video). NTSC video is 29.97fps. Also NTSC video size is 720 x 480. I'm sure you can adjust TMPGenc for file size, but I think doing it the way you are trying may make the audio sound strange. Maybe someone else can comment on this.