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  OT: Mastering advice for universal compatibility (NTSC, PAL, SECAM)

  Posted by Emery on May 25, 2005 at 5:10 am

  Im doing a show that will be played all around the world and Im wondering what kind of pitfalls I might run into.

  Ive been doing a little research and there seems to be many flavors of PAL (b, g, h etc).

  Final delivery will be on DVD and I need to make sure each one I make will work everywhere.

  Obviously this means making three versions… or does it mean making 10 versions?

  I need to cover all the major countries, which I feel can be done with just PAL and NTSC. But France and Russia use SECAM?

  So my question is, how many formats (or flavors) are out there?

  Does a PAL dvd work with every flavor of PAL dvd player and television?

  All the post will be done in HD (probably DVCPRO HD 720p @ 23.98 fps).

  Thanks,
  Emery

  Tim Johnson replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Tim Johnson

  May 26, 2005 at 8:46 pm

  I’d just render out one master image sequence in HD square pixels, then down convert the sequence to each different format and their respective aspect ratio. If they are all going to be 4 x 3, then make sure to keep that in mind while within your HD comp.

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