• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  PAL DVD

  Posted by Pressplay on April 3, 2007 at 2:37 pm

  just a question to ensure I get this right. I have a client that is going to take a dvd i am producing for them overseas. The dvd will contain one 3 minute video I am editing in final cut pro and burning the dvd in iDVD. I need to ensure that this dvd will work in the PAL system, is exporting the video as a PAL file enough? will the dvd play without glitches? or play at all?
  thanks

  Enzo Tedeschi replied 19 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Gillespie

  April 3, 2007 at 5:57 pm

  I’m not sure that you can export an NTSC movie file out as a PAL one? If so, the results will look pretty bad without running it through a conversion tool like Nattress.
  You may want to stop a check just how the video will be play and using what machine. If you’re client is taking over his/her laptop to give the presentation, then it doesn’t matter since it’s an ‘NTSC’ laptop. A lot of presentations are coming from laptops anyway, so you might want to skip the DVD and give them a QuickTime movie and/or .wmv file-since those are format independant-you don’t need to worry about a format conversion. Plus the quality can be as good or better than a DVD.
  Finally, a lot of modern DVD players -believe it or not- can play a PAL or NTSC DVD with no problem-it’s only will get caught up on the region code.

  So take a look at you options before you get bogged down with format conversion.

  Good Luck,

  Todd at UCSB
  Television Production
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  Enzo Tedeschi

  April 3, 2007 at 9:38 pm

  I’ve been asked for this a few times of late – except the other way…PAL to NTSC.

  Again, to echo Todd, I haven’t come across a DVD player yet that won’t do some sort of crude standards conversion on the fly. The results you get from an in DVD player playback conversion is about the same as doing it as a software conversion unless you have a third-party product like Nattress. You could also take your file to a duccing house and get a hardware conversion done, but I’m guessing that will cost about as much if not more than buying the software to do it.

  I have done it straight out of QT, and also let the DVD pplyer take care of it – the image quality doesn’t take much of a hit, but there’s a slight amount of jerkiness in the frame rate, most noticeable when things are moving.

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