• Adobe Encore DVD

  To pal or ntsc that is the question?

  Posted by Roen Davis on September 22, 2006 at 5:17 am

  Hi there !
  we are down under PALies and we are sending a festival entry DVD to the US and not sure whether it should be PAL or NTSC – and since the master is PAL I am guessing that Encore will not “standards convert” – any advice will accepted with open arms!

  Neil Wilkes replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Neil Wilkes

  September 22, 2006 at 9:59 am

  95% of all PAL machines will play an NTSC disc.
  95% of all NTSC machines will NOT play a PAL disc.
  If you are sending to the USA, it must be NTSC. Simple.

  “Standards Conversion” of an authored disc is next to impossible to do.
  Menus are a different resolution & PAR.
  Video is a different resolution & frame rate.
  You must rebuild as an NTSC project – redesigning all menus, and converting all Video.

  Sorry about this – but that is the way it is.
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  Vince Becquiot

  September 27, 2006 at 3:27 am

  The best way to convert to NTSC using a software based solution is Canopus Procoder IMO.

  Vince
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  Neil Wilkes

  September 27, 2006 at 6:13 pm

  Which will not do the menus.

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