I have a great NTSC digital camera but need to convert the footage to PAL before burning to DVD. Nero's convertion comes out like crap! I know PAL is a more superior format so it's hard to make a good conversion but there must be some software with good results. Please help.
The Best Program for doing NTSC/Pal conversions is "Canopus Procoder" and it can encode your NTSC DV Footage to a DVD Compliant Pal Mpeg-2 File that you Simply need to author to DVD with your DVD authoring program... It can also convert your NTSC DV File into a Pal Video_TS Folder which you simply have to Burn to DVD-R in "DVD Video" Mode useing Nero.... Nero uses a Just awefull Quality Encoder and it Does Crappy assed Frame rate Conversions so I would avoid useing it for Converting any Video Files if Possible.... You will get Much better results and with More Options if you used a Good Standalone Mpeg encoder Like "Tmpgenc" or "Canopus Procoder" or The "MainConcept Encoder" to encode your DV AVI files to DVD Compliant Mpeg-2 format and then use a Good DVD Authoring program Like "MediaChance DVDLab Pro" to add your menu"s and Chapters and any Special Features to your Movie and to Finally Burn it to DVD.... Programs Like Nero(Vision Express)are for those who don"t really Care about quality and who don"t want to learn how to Do it properly or just who don"t know any better..... Cheers
Thanks for your help, Canopus Procoder is a pricey $500, however there is an express version for $60. Do you know if the cheaper would have the same quality conversion i would require as the more expensive version? I dare say i would not use much of the other tools in the pricier package. Also are you aware of any demo versions of these types of software? Would i be wrong in saying all the freeware products do not convert to mpeg2?
Supposedly "Canopus Procoder Express" works Just as well as the Regular version it just has fewer options.... I don"t know of any Working Demo versions of these programs.....
If you wanted freeware you could use AVISynth for the framerate conversion and resizing, then HCEnc, QuEnc or similar for the MPEG2 encoding.
