Posted by Kate on 04/29/07 17:09

On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:37:42 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

> I don't know about freeware, but I've successfully used Nero to convert
> from PAL to NTSC. But it's very, very slow.

My first two tries failed so I'm reading and re-reading the PAL2NTSC
tutorial. I ask you if I have the steps understood correctly below.

DGIndex already created three files (took 1.5 hours)
1. movie.d2v
2. movie_2_0ch_192Kbps_delay_0ms.ac3 (2 channel dolby audio)
3. movie_3_2ch_448Kbps_delay_0ms.ac3 (5 channel dolby audio)

The PAL to NTSC conversion recipe uses three freeware programs
i. DGIndex
ii. TMPGEnc
iii. DGPulldown

Corresponding, I think, to the three general PAL-to-NTSC conversion steps
a. Separate the PAL movie into d2v video and ac3 audio channels
b. Combine them back into a PAL/NTSC hybrid with NTSC frame size (720x480)
and PAL frames per second (25 fps)
c. Convert the PAL/NTSC hybrid frames per second to NTSC

Do I have the gist of the necessary PAL to NTSC conversion steps correct?

Kate

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