• DVD Authoring

  pal/ntsc

  Posted by John Culleton on August 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm

  am i right in thinkng that if a DVD has to be both pal/ntsc compatible that i need to encode to both standards and it’s double the authoring?

  so a DVD5 will probabaly need to be DVD9?

  Michael Sacci replied 14 years, 9 months ago 4 Members · 19 Replies
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  Eric Pautsch

  August 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm

  Double the authoring but they will be separate project on separate discs. Good news though…. ALL PAL players will play NTSC discs.
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  John Culleton

  August 11, 2011 at 12:53 pm

  how about if i just do an NTSC project, will that play worldwide?
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  Eric Pautsch

  August 11, 2011 at 4:35 pm

  Yeah…..I just said that 🙂
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  John Culleton

  August 11, 2011 at 4:38 pm

  🙂 thx
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  Michael Slowe

  August 12, 2011 at 8:50 pm

  Eric, but not the other way around I’m being told from America. I’ve had a film accepted by a festival in America and they insist on demanding an NTSC disc, either DVD or BD. They accepted a PAL DVD for initial submission which they obviously played. For the public exhibition they want all NTSC.

  Is there an easy conversion, otherwise I’ll not bother? I’ve got Toast 11 Pro, will that convert PAL to NTSC. I’m prepared to re import my HD file (ProRes 422 HQ) provided I can then do an easy conversion.

  By the way, I thought that Blu-Ray did not differentiate between PAL and NTSC, obviously I’m wrong.

  Thanks for any help or advice that you can supply.

  Michael Slowe
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  Michael Sacci

  August 12, 2011 at 10:28 pm

  Yes, US is for the most part PAL-less. Expect most people not to be able to play it.

  IMO the best Pal to NTSC conversion is to convert your footage to 24p, just by retiming it. This change will not be noticable and you get a frame for frame conversion. This conversion should not be done in toast or any other authoring system. Use Compressor or similar to do this the image is also changed but the frame rate is what cause the most trouble.
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  Eric Pautsch

  August 13, 2011 at 4:00 am

  Compressor does an OK job of converting. I hear good thing s about Natress as well.

  There is no PAL and NTSC in BD, only frame rates. Some tools and many people still use both terms but technically its 24/23.98, 30/60 or 25/50.

  NTSC will play everywhere, PAL only on PAL set ups
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  John Culleton

  August 13, 2011 at 8:15 am

  so, NTSC is the world standard for DVD, because the US cant play PAL, how did that happen 🙂
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  Eric Pautsch

  August 13, 2011 at 5:19 pm

  Oh C’mon….dont you know America is the center of the Universe? 😉
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  John Culleton

  August 13, 2011 at 5:23 pm

  hmmmnnn… since when?

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