PAL to NTSC conversion

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Lynne,
If you want to make a NTSC DVD from an PAL DVD, you must convert the MPG2 to a PAL .mov (this with MPGStreamclip). Them you must to convert the PAL clip to NTSC (Nattresse Standard Conversion, Shake,..) and them make an MPG2 NTSC.
I’m not sure if will be worth all this process. However, if you go to try, I would suggest you when converting the original PAL MPG2 to QT movie, export in DV50 or 8b Uncompress. At least you will get better picture from the DVD that if you export as DV or so.
rafael

[Uli Plank]

Is it from film or video? If it’s video, do what Rafalaos suggested.

If it’s film, extract it like he said, slow the resulting QuickTime down to 24p with Cinema Tools, scale it down to NTSC in FCP (or Motion or AE) and encode it as 24p and it’ll look gorgeous.

Regards,

Uli

[Ben Scott]

try using the frame controls feature of compressor, it should be the same as shake

it has presets to do standards conversion

problem is can be difficult to get the MPEG2 file from the dvd, any ideas on a mac.

Know there is open source ffmpeg style tools that convert to relevant codec and convert the ac3 dolby to pcm AIFF, but not got them to work really (not sure of legality either)

there is also this which could get well complex but could from the sounds of it convert a lot of files
https://avisynth.org/mediawiki/Main_Page
and good explanations at
https://www.doom9.org/

[Lynne Margulies]

Thanks for the input, I can see this is going to be a bit complicated!

Lynne

[Paul Dickin]

[ben scott] “problem is can be difficult to get the MPEG2 file from the dvd, any ideas on a mac.”
Hi
MPEG Streamclip
https://www.squared5.com

[Rafael Amador]

How to convert a PAL DVD in a NTSC DVD:
In this thread you can find some ideas:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/960919
Fallow the suggestion of Uli Plank. He know a lot.
Rafael