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What happens when I burn PAL onto a NTSC dvd?
Hi there,
I’m using iDVD, because unfortunately my compressor isn’t working :/ So my question is, what happens when I burn PAL into a NTSC dvd? Will it work out in Europe?I changed the video mode in iDVD to PAL instead of NTSC, but when I go to burn it I get a message saying “You are burning a PAL movie to an NTSC disc, do you want to continue?”
I’m very tempted to just go for it, just have no clue if it will work out in Europe or not. 🙁
Help Please, and Thank you 🙂
-Stacy
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that is a mess. If you are burning a NTSC DVD just leave your assets NTSC. It sounds like that is what you have, correct?
Most DVD players can play NTSC just fine. Mixing the formats is legal in DVD spec so I don’t even know why iDVD is giving you the option to continue.
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I have never seen that message before but it should not matter. I have burned a PAL disc after running the NTSC footage through Compressor and sent it to Romania and it worked just fine.
Apple Certified Master Pro FCS 2
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Thank you all I very much appreciate it.
I have all of my projects going out to Europe exported in DVCPRO PAL from fcp and then putting them into iDVD…
So I can do one of two things:
1. Leave the PAL exports in iDVD and just leave NTSC checked off and not PAL for the video mode in iDVD
or
2. Throw in the NTSC project (exported from fcp instead of the PAL project) and leave the video mode on iDVD NTSC
I think I just confused myself :/ haha
I just need to finish these up by 12 today so I’m stressing out, but I want them to be correct to play out in Europe.
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Chances are the conversion is not going to be great. Unless you are viewing the PAL videos on a PAL TV you are flying blind. Unless you know these encodes are good you should not be using them. If they are good and you want to use them just author PAL DVDs, you cannot nor should you mix standards.
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[Dave LaRonde] “just about every DVD player ever made has no problems with NTSC DVD’s, even in PAL countries. So if you have an NTSC version of your project, just try burning it as NTSC”
Does it work the other way around? Here in PAL land most if not all DVD players can play NTSC. Is that the same with sending PAL DVD’s to NTSC land? Are NTSC DVD players dual standard? Are US Blu-ray players dual standard?
Sam Cole
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[Sam Cole] “Does it work the other way around? Here in PAL land most if not all DVD players can play NTSC. Is that the same with sending PAL DVD’s to NTSC land?
Are NTSC DVD players dual standard? Are US Blu-ray players dual standard?”Just to clear this up again, computers can display DVDs in either format. DVD players feed media to a TV which is the device that ultimately displays the media.
NTSC TVs will not display a PAL DVD, you will need to convert to NTSC, and author in NTSC before formatting.
NTSC TVs cannot display both formats, modern PAL TVs can.Cheers
Alexander
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