PAL to NTSC ( yet again)

[pijetro]

Up until now, tape conversions of PAL to NTSC have gone smoothly.
Now, I've got a PAL DVD, and it's superb. It needs to be backed up.

Tools: I'm familiar with Vdub, CCE, Avisynth, DVDLab, and Nero...

Question: Am I stuck backing up the main movie only, or is it possible to back up all the audio tracks, and subtitles, for NTSC playback??

In the meanwhile, I'm gonna read what subtitles, are all about..

Thanx......

[killingspree]

hi,
sure thing, this is possible, although it involves some pretty dirty messing with the video and audio. there have been numerous discussions on this board, both concerning PAL to NTSC aswell as the other way around!

one thing i'd like to know though, before going into greater detail, is: what format are you actually going for? do you want a NTSC divx of an NTSC DVD, the latter is quite a bit more complicated but still doable!

in either way, you will have to change the framerate of your audio and video 'manually', which basically means, that you'll have to do your own avisynth scripts (or at least edit an existing one) aswell as do the audio (be it ac3 or mp3) seperately in besweet.

hth
steVe

[pijetro]

Thank you. Output is for NTSC television. I have been successful, but still need to push the envelope. :)

Source is interlaced (so DVD2AVI 1.76 says) and 25fps. I simply slowed down the video as such:

mpeg2source("f:\Zona PAL\VIDEO_TS\test.d2v")
LanczosResize(720,480)
crop(0,56,0,-56)
addborders(0,56,0,56)
AssumeFPS(23.976)
addaudio()#Required for CCE 2.5

I successfully ripped the audio with DVD2AVI, and downmixed with AC3 Machine. I simply encode my filmrate as if it were pure interlaced, and am very happy with the quality. Authoured with DVDLab, and voila.

Now that I've learned to use DVD2AVI, I guess I should be able to do the same with menus.

Questions:
1)How do I know my PAL source is progressive or interlaced?. If that's the case, I'll encode it as such, rather than my current interlaced method.

2)Can I use the same linking strategy as the original DVD and keep the subtitles??

3) Can you send me some links for DVD audio please?? I'm so confused as to what stream I've ripped, and if it even requires downsampling and/or transcoding again. I also seem to get a slight popping noise.

It would be great if I could keep all the original menus.
Yes, the original footage is on DVD-9, so I had to reencode the Film..

Thank you very much