Best way to convert PAL dvd to NTSC dvd

essami wrote on 4/28/2006, 4:53 AM

Hi,

Im making a region free DVD with the other side as PAL and the flipside as NTSC. My original files are PAL.

Can anyone recommend should I render the videos one by one in Vegas or should I insert the PAL video files into DVD Architect NTSC project and let it do the job?

Letting DVD architect would be easier but are there any drawbacks on that?

Thank you!

Sami

Comments

ScottW wrote on 4/28/2006, 5:24 AM

You are going to lose some quality if you let DVDA do the work - presumably you'd be feeding DVDA the MPG files you created for PAL; if so, DVDA must decompress these and then recompress them into the proper format - this is where you lose quality. By going back to Vegas and doing the render to MPEG you're going back to the original source and so there should be no loss in quality (at least nothing beyond what you would normally lose when going to MPEG).

--Scott

essami wrote on 4/28/2006, 5:46 AM

Ok, thanks for the info! Thats true. Just lazy me trying to take the easy way out :)

Sami

mbryant wrote on 4/28/2006, 12:14 PM

I agree with doing the render in Vegas. There will be a quality hit regardless (NTSC has lower resolution anyway, and rescaling the video is "harder" for Vegas than a normal MPEG render), but it does a good job, and is better than doing it in DVDA.

Mark