I have a two disc movie that I'm trying to convert from PAL to NTSC. I have been following this guide using all the same settings http://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/166237.php and I have just finished encoding the video to NTSC and am ready to insert the re-encoded sound back in with the vidoe file... BUT the new NTSC encoded video file without sound is larger (900mb) than the original PAL file WITH sound (approx 700mb). So I was wondwering if anyone has any other methods of encoding or settings I should change in the guide to keep from turning this 2 disc movie into a three disc nightmare.
How many FPS is the original PAL movie? If the original was in 25 FPS PAL, reencode it into the NTSC Film standard 24 FPS instead of 29. Also, why do you encode the A/V seperately? I'd keep them multiplexed. If I were you, I wouldn't even touch your PAL copy... reencoding video even if you're boosting the framerate creates immense loss. Enevitably, your video will look worse now in NTSC than it did in PAL. You should track down the original source of the video (DVD or whatever) and make a NTSC SVCD directly from that. (Use TMPGEnc if you aren't already Really, when something is encoded in PAL, theres no going back.
Well the original source is not available and I'm going from 25 FPS to 23.976. I have been following the guide exactly as I am fairly new to encoding and it said to encode them seperately. If you know of a better method please let me know. The NTSC video file with out sound I ended up with was of about the same quality as the original PAL file so no troubles there. Should I have used one of the VBR methods in TMPGEnc instead of CBR or would it have not made a real difference?
well... that guide is correct in every way... www.kvcd.net you can easaly put that suckas on 1 cd with no quality lost, but like 10hr encoding period
I would have used VBR. Is your movie an action movie? Or anime? If it has a specific theme, usually there is a specific method that works best. VBR is generally better as long as you allow for a very high maximum bitrate. Does your PAL SVCD have bumpers saying "switch to Disc 2"? or something like that? If its just raw video, I would merge both discs together in PAL, load it into TMPGEnc, select CBR, then let it do its thing. I would think that with 1 less frame a sec and smaller resolution, the file would be smaller
