Fastest way to get a PAL DVD to NTSC?

[Todd33]

My relatives in AU sent us a PAL DVD for my kid. Using DVDShrink, Nero or something else, can I make a NTSC DVD from it? Thanks.

 

[Slick5150]

Much easier to just get a DVD player that can do PAL->NTSC conversion.

 

[CrowDog]

Id like to know this too...

 

[Wheezer]

it can be a time consuming process. I wrote this guide up last year when I was converting some PAL dvd's from France to NTSC..

I am sure that there may be may an easier way to do this but after doing a lot of searching and testing various ways for myself I have found the combination of steps that works best for me to convert PAL DVD to NTSC keeping great quality. It seemed very complicated at first but after doing it a few times it really is fairly easy.
You will need the following tools:
1-DVDDecrypter
2-DVDShrink
3-DVD2AVI
4-VOBEdit
5-BeSweet
6-Goldwave
7-TMPGEnc

I did this with a TV series DVD so doing a movie may be a ?little? different. I will describe the steps I used for this particular DVD which had 4 episodes on each disk. This was a French DVD which had the original English sound and was simply dubbed in French. Feel free to add anything you wish or if you know a shortcut feel free to post.





Ripping:
1- Rip DVD with DVDDecrypter.

2- Use DVDShrink to open the files on your HD.

3- Click the re-author button and select a title (In my case there were 4 titles)

4- In my case there was both English and French ac3 audio and I only wanted English so I unchecked the French ac3.

5-Click the Backup button and back up the files to another folder.

6- In my case I ended up with 2 VOBs for each episode.

Audio
1- Using VOBEdit open the VOB files you selected with DVDShrink and select ?Demux?

2- Select ?Demux all audio?

3- You should now have your VOB?s and an .ac3 file.

4- Use Besweet to open the ac3 and convert it to a .wav ? {I had to do this step because for some reason I would get an error with Goldwave when trying to open the ac3 file.}

5- Open Goldwave and select the file you converted to a .wav file then select Effects>Time Warp in the window that opens change the 100.00 to 95.904 because we are going from 25 fps to 23.97.

Now I realize that you can do this w/BeSweet but i had some problems with audio video sync when I just used BeSweet. That is why I used this method...I found that it worked so I stuck with it.

5- Select >file> Save As and give it a name that separates it from the first .wav file
**Your second .wav file should now be larger than the first**


Video

1 - Open DVD2AVI and select the first VOB file you re-authored with DVDShrink

2 - Under video select field > none

3 - Go to file>save project.

4 - Save the project and close DVD2AVI

Putting it all together
1 - Open TMPGEnc and close the wizard if it pops up

2 - In the Video Source window browse to the .d2v file you created.

3 - In the Audio Source select the .wav file you created with Goldwave

4 - Select an output folder and name the file with an .mpg extension

5 - Go to ?load? and open the ?extra? folder in the templates folder.

6 - Select unlock.mcf

7 - Click settings

8 - In the settings:

Video Tab
a - Video Stream Setting - MPEG-2
b - Size - 720x480
c - Aspect Ratio - 4:3
d - Frame Rate - 23.976
e - Rate Control CBR
f - Bit Rate ? I left this alone
g - Video Format ? NTSC
h - Encode Mode ? Left it alone
i - YUV Format ? Left it alone
j - DV Component Precision ? Left it alone
k - Motion Search Precision I chose High

Advanced tab:
a - Double click De-interlace and in the window that opens
select ?Even field (adaptation)? in the drop box.

b ? Check the box next to ?Do Not Frame Rate Conversion?

Select OK and go back to the main window and click start. Let it run for about 10 minutes and then stop the conversion to check the mpeg file to make sure everything is ok then restart it.

It took about 2 hours to do a 45 minute show.

You may then do what you want with the mpg.

**Optional**

I chose to run the files back through TMPEnc using the wizard to that I could fit 4 episodes on each DVD-R.

You may then load them into your choice of authoring programs to make your disk.

As i said there Might be an easier way to do this, but this is what I found to work, and once I got the hang of it is was really pretty easy...just ties up the comp for a while.

 

[fwtong]

The easiest thing to do is buy one of these dvd players. They will automatically handle the PAL to NTSC conversion and vice versa.

List of Multisystem PAL > NTSC and NTSC > PAL DVD Players

 

[Todd33]

I'm neither doing 20 steps or buying a new DVD player for one Wiggles DVD, LOL. Thanks for the replies, I will just send the DVD back

 

[yukichigai]

Akkkkk, nononono. CHances are your player does multisystem conversion, just it's hung up on the region code.

Go to videohelp.com's DVD player list and look up your player. If it has "Multisystem/PAL->NTSC conversion" listed then all you have to do is decrypt it and remove the region coding with DVD Decrypter, then re-author/-burn with DVD Shrink.

Additionally....

Wheezer: I suggest in your TMPGEnc step you encode using 2-pass VBR. There's no reason to use CBR encoding with DVDs.

 

[gtd2000]

Why bother?

I've used NTSC DVDs in the UK and PAL DVDs in the USA and the only change that was made was unlocking the region code....

Never had any trouble using either format (or noticed any problem)

Perhaps I'm missing something here though?

Unless it is because all of the DVD players I have ever bought all handle NTSC & PAL as default?

I tend to buy the cheapest varieties these days that are hackable though.