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NTSC to PAL transcoding

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Can anyone point me in the right direction.

My sister lives in the USA and she recently got married and they had a DVD made of the wedding which she sent to all of her family who still live in the UK. This DVD is Region 1 NTSC encoded but as I have a multi region DVD player and multi standard TV I can view it no problem. My dad however has a really old TV and really cheap and nasty DVD player and can't view it because it needs to be PAL.

Is there a way I can convert this DVD to Region 2 or Region 0 PAL for him?

I have software that can change the Region code or remove it but I don't know how to go about the NTSC to PAL transcoding. Is there software out there that can do that?

I'm not in front of my Mac at the moment but from memory the software I have that is video related are:

iMovie
Handbrake
MacTheRipper
Toast

Will any of these do it or do I need something else?
 
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I'm doing something similar but from PAL to NTSC.

I haven't worked out all the kinks, but I think you'll need JES Deinterlacer, MPEG Streamclip, and the MPEG2 addition to MPEG Streamclip.


Doesn't this seem like such unnecessary grief???
 

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