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**ChickenMan** · 12-06-2004

PAL to NTSC
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1. A few extra step need to be done in addition to the above if you wish to convert your PAL movies to NTSC, these are:

2. In the Frameserver Tab, tick the "Edit as part of video encoding" option when setting DVD2SVCD up.

3. Once DVD2SVCD is set up, run it. Just before the Editing step begins, an Edit Avisynth Script box will pop-up.

4. Edit the script to include

.
lanczosresize(720,480) <-- change the 576 to 480
assumefps(23.976) <-- Include this line here
.

5. Click Save, then Okay and encoding will continue as usual.

6. You can let it complete its job or when encoding is finished, shut down DVDAuthor and then DVD2SVCD if you happen to be around at the time.

7. Copy Pulldown.exe found in your ../DVD2SVCD/Pulldown/ folder to your Default Output folder that contains all your encoded files.

8. Run a DOS box and move to your Output folder, then run pulldown using the following:

pulldown Encoded_video_CCE_PAL.mpv Encoded_video_CCE_NTSC.mpv

9. Rename (or delete) the original Encoded_video_CCE_PAL.mpv file to anything and rename the new Encoded_video_CCE_NTSC.mpv file to Encoded_video_CCE_PAL.mpv, exactly as per the original file name.

10. Run BeSweetGUI to time-stretch the audio file Encoded_audio_1.ac3 or Extracted_audio_1.ac3 to an AC3 of the same bitrate you selected in DVD2SVCD. In the main BeSweetGUI page tick the Preset box and select PAL --> NTSC (25.000 to 23.976), load in the audio file, set output to AC3 and then click the AC3 to AC3 button.

11. Rename (or delete) the original audio AC3 file to anything. Then rename our new time-stretched AC3 file to Encoded_audio_1.ac3 (only if it originally existed) or Extracted_audio_1.ac3.

12. Run DVD2SVCD, in the Misc Tab select Recover. Browse to the Default Output folder and load in the "dvd2svcd project file.d2s" file, select Authoring stage and click Continue. Your new NTSC files will begin to be authored.

13. You can of course just manually Author the new *.mpv and *.ac3 files in TMPGEnc DVD Author, DVDLab, Maestro, etc. as per usual.

14. Naturally test the final VOB files by playing them on the PC. If all is okay and audio/video sync is correct, then burn them as per above.

15. Also remember, the next time you run DVD2SVCD, the "Edit as part of video encoding" option will still be ticked so unless your doing more PAL to NTSC conversions, you will normally need to un-tick it. I have been caught with this many times

12-06-2004	#2 (permalink)
ChickenMan Senior Moderator Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Oz Posts: 2,632	Re: How to backup your DVD to DVD±R PAL to NTSC ~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. A few extra step need to be done in addition to the above if you wish to convert your PAL movies to NTSC, these are: 2. In the Frameserver Tab, tick the "Edit as part of video encoding" option when setting DVD2SVCD up. 3. Once DVD2SVCD is set up, run it. Just before the Editing step begins, an Edit Avisynth Script box will pop-up. 4. Edit the script to include . lanczosresize(720,480) <-- change the 576 to 480 assumefps(23.976) <-- Include this line here . 5. Click Save, then Okay and encoding will continue as usual. 6. You can let it complete its job or when encoding is finished, shut down DVDAuthor and then DVD2SVCD if you happen to be around at the time. 7. Copy Pulldown.exe found in your ../DVD2SVCD/Pulldown/ folder to your Default Output folder that contains all your encoded files. 8. Run a DOS box and move to your Output folder, then run pulldown using the following: pulldown Encoded_video_CCE_PAL.mpv Encoded_video_CCE_NTSC.mpv 9. Rename (or delete) the original Encoded_video_CCE_PAL.mpv file to anything and rename the new Encoded_video_CCE_NTSC.mpv file to Encoded_video_CCE_PAL.mpv, exactly as per the original file name. 10. Run BeSweetGUI to time-stretch the audio file Encoded_audio_1.ac3 or Extracted_audio_1.ac3 to an AC3 of the same bitrate you selected in DVD2SVCD. In the main BeSweetGUI page tick the Preset box and select PAL --> NTSC (25.000 to 23.976), load in the audio file, set output to AC3 and then click the AC3 to AC3 button. 11. Rename (or delete) the original audio AC3 file to anything. Then rename our new time-stretched AC3 file to Encoded_audio_1.ac3 (only if it originally existed) or Extracted_audio_1.ac3. 12. Run DVD2SVCD, in the Misc Tab select Recover. Browse to the Default Output folder and load in the "dvd2svcd project file.d2s" file, select Authoring stage and click Continue. Your new NTSC files will begin to be authored. 13. You can of course just manually Author the new .mpv and .ac3 files in TMPGEnc DVD Author, DVDLab, Maestro, etc. as per usual. 14. Naturally test the final VOB files by playing them on the PC. If all is okay and audio/video sync is correct, then burn them as per above. 15. Also remember, the next time you run DVD2SVCD, the "Edit as part of video encoding" option will still be ticked so unless your doing more PAL to NTSC conversions, you will normally need to un-tick it. I have been caught with this many times ChickenMan (c)2004