NTSC to PAL

Author: daveytod
Date: 15-Jun-2007, 8:13 AM

Author: daveytod
Time: 15-Jun-2007 8:13 AM
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Hi guys,

I'm looking at extra content for the Clones Revealed DVD but a lot of what I have is NTSC. Is there a quick and easy way of converting a short mpeg video from NTSC to PAL?

FINISHED:
The Sith Revealed - A Scrapbook
Episode III The Video Game - The Movie
24: The Missing Day
Star Wars - The Interactive Board Game DVD
Battlefront - Journal of the 501st
The Clones Revealed

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Author: pittrek
Time: 15-Jun-2007 8:26 AM
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If you don't care much about quality and "good" is good enough for you, here's a "quick and dirty" way :

Write an AviSynth script, add to its end the lines

Lanczos4Resize(720, 576)
ConvertFPS(25)

Load the script to an mpeg encoder (CCE, HCEncoder, QuEnc, TMPGEnc), and create an mpeg video stream. Author with your favorite DVD authoring software

Author: daveytod
Time: 17-Jun-2007 5:59 PM
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Thanks for teh reply, but AVIsynth is not my friend...any other suggestions guys?

Author: SweHanzon
Time: 17-Jun-2007 7:51 PM
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Andrew Kramer of videocopilot.net will be a good friend of yours if you like using Adobe After Effects =)

http://forums.creativecow.net/articles/kramer_andrew/fps/index.htm

Author: Moth3r
Time: 18-Jun-2007 5:13 AM
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What's the framerate of the original material - NTSC-film (23.976fps) or NTSC (29.97fps)?

The former is easily converted to PAL - resize to 720x576, encode at 25fps and speed up the audio by 25/23.976 = 1.0427. AviSynth is ideal for this kind of processing, but if you're not inclined to make friends with it at this stage then VirtualDubMod or VirtualDub-MPEG2 should be able to do the same thing.

Converting interlaced 29.97fps NTSC into 25fps PAL is a more complex subject - there are several different approaches, quality varies.

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Author: caligulathegod
Time: 25-Jun-2007 2:38 AM
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If you really want it quick and easy, if you have the full Nero suite you can use Nero Vision to convert it. It will convert mpg directly from PAL to NTSC and you can use it to convert a PAL DIVX/XVID to PAL mpg then convert THAT to NTSC. It's as close to one button solution as it gets. It might not be "preservation-worthy", but it's watchable.