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hi forgive my noob-ness but I have been pulling my hair out (what little is left) reading guide after outdated guide and I am still more or less in the dark.
what I am trying to do is 2 basic things:
(1) I have a bunch of old corporate promotion DVDs (educational videos, marketing info, etc) that are in PAL format. These need to be converted to NTSC, preferably with the subtitles still intact. There are multiple languages on some of them and these should ideally be preserved as independednt audio tracks as well. What I did was use AviSynth and some assorted tools (eclCCE, FitCD, pulldown.exe etc) to resize and do 3:2 pulldown on the original video after it had been processed with DVD2AVI (now apparently called DGindex??) I then created new menus with DVD-lab and it came out "OK". but not great I am pretty sure I hosed something having to do with field/frame/ZigZag/Alternate/progressive/interlaced etc etc in the CCE settings there are so many places to go wrong its unbelievable!! The resulting video was playable but a bit jerky at times.
Please can someone point the way to a clear guide on doing PAL->NTSC DVD conversions? it would really save the day.
(2) the 2nd part of this is I have to take the videos and compress them for internet download, which will either be in QuickTime or WMV format. Let's just focus on the QuickTime since that is more important. I am again somewhat at a loss as to what needs to be done to get a VOB converted to QuickTime (or any other format for that matter!) Here's what I tried which sort of worked but again I'm sure its not the "right" way and I'm sure theres a better/faster way.
a) open DVD2AVI and demux the audio,
b) run that through BeSweet to convert to .WAV.
c) Then import the VOB into Vegas (?) and the wav, and
d) render using whatever compression (Xvid, Quicktime, etc) you want.
Here's the question......... is opening the VOB directly the best way? it seems like these should be converted first to .m2v (mpeg2) files.. but how do I do this? I tried using DVDdecrypter in IFO mode and clicking DeMux on the stream processing but the resulting file was unplayable and could not be imported into Vegas. Can someone please point me on the right track here?
thanks so much, sincerely!
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 20. July 2004 @ 14:02
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