Originally Posted by obsessed

I have been converting DVDs from NTSC to PAL and from PAL to NTSC for well over a year with great success. Here's what I do: I rip it into a long dvd-quality mpg file using Xilisoft DVD Ripper Platinum, and I can set it to whatever frame-rate I want, so the conversion happens at this level. Then I open the new converted mpg file in Pinnacle Studio (I find version 9 works best) and re-author the dvd, I usually make a brand new menu but if you capture the menu image you can add new buttons over the old ones, depending on the style of the old menu. As for the lines on top, Studio can crop that, no problem. As I said, my results have been excellent, I haven't noticed artifacts or any distortions.