Hi, Have home DVD (which was coverted from older VHS video) which I wish to copy to the American standard NTSC but there does not appear to be an option in Nero to do this - or am I missing the obvious? Any easy way of copying from one format to the other would be appreciated and do we now really need to have NTSC as most DVD players look capable of playing both formats. Thanks for your time and assistance - it is appreciated. George
My stand-alone DVD player will show PAL on an NTSC TV but I don't know how unusual that is now. You can look on www.videohelp.com left menu for DVD Players and there's a search engine for particular features, such as PAL and NTSC conversion. That may give you an ideo how common the feature is. If you want to convert search on PAL TO NTSC on this board and you should find some very very long threads.
Use vso DIvx to DVD converter http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_encoders/vso_divxtodvd_free.cfm When you open it input your PAL avi file and then change the standards to force 16:9 and force 29.97
NERO would do it for you. You have to specify the format you want (PAL or NTSC); In nero vision express, go into "make DVD", select the files you want and the rest is history. You may also try the NERO support tutorials for more details. Hope this will help you...
I agree, when I used nero vision express to re encode a pal movie and change to ntsc format, it just freezes up on the menus and I have to reboot my computer. I'm searching for other good software that can do the job.
Hi, ArcSoft Showbiz 2 works Ok if you have the raw files to start with. My knowledge is not great in these matters having just started converting videos that were home made. I used Nero to recode then imported into Arcsoft and that worked Ok. That is from PAL to NTSC. Cheers.
Update, I got my movie to burn with nero, had to change to widescreen 16:9. Turned out good but the picture instead of going out horizontally was a small box in the center.
DVDBack23, I like DivxToDVD too, but if the input and output aren't at the same framerate you can get audio out of sync. Plus the free version doesn't do subtitles. Plus if the input file has a custom aspect ratio you can end up with squashed or stretched people. I think the Software Discussion forum has a thread PAL TO NTSC that's about 12 pages long. There's a lot of info there and at least 3 or 4 methods of doing it(there may be more but I ignore the ones with $500 price tags since I'm not doing commercial video stuff.. just watchin' my vids on a stand-alone player) This guide helps avoid audio out of sync http://www.johnisme.com/avi1.shtml but there are other methods
Hi Milesahead, NEVER had a problem with sync or any other problem using VSO, and dont really need subtitles, so that is why i give advice on using VSO, thanks for your advice though.
