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I'm sorry but that last comment by the previous poster is absolute bollocks. Always converting NTSC to PAL is definitely the way to go if you want decent quality. PAL is superior to NTSC in every way imaginable and converting to PAL is always preferable. Sometimes it can be difficult to do depending on the source type, but if you are able to do it properly via frameserving or whatever then do so. TMPGEnc's own tools are not usually powerful enough to do a very good job on their own, so don't bother with that route, use AviSynth or VirtualDubMod to do the NTSC -> PAL conversion and then frameserve the result into TMPGEnc to do the actual encoding. You will not be disappointed.
Apart from anything else, the vertical resolution of NTSC being 480/240 is not large enough to get an unnoticeable difference in the correct aspect ratio when you need to round the vertical resolution of the output MPEG to 16. PAL's 576/288 allows you to get much closer to the ideal number when rounding to 16 such that the aspect ratio distortion is unnoticeable. Just one reason why PAL is superior. |
