Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?

[Khashyar Darvich]

Hi Roman,

Thanks for your feedback.

Our NTSC is 29.97fps, so I think that we’ll have to ask a lab to do a hardware NTSC-PAL conversion of the actual footage.

Khashyar

[Khashyar Darvich]

Thank you both, Roman and Max, for your thoughts and advice about this.

I will ask our DVD Author to rerender the Menus to PAL in After Effects.

He hasn’t worked on a PAL DVD project before (although he’s done several NTSC DVD projects on his Scenarist system).

Thanks again,

Khashyar

[Brian Caswell]

I apologise straightaway for my ignorance on this subject, but I am curious to know why transfer from NTSC DVD to PAL DVD is necessary.

As I understand it PAL DVD’s do not play in America, but NTSC DVD’s play in America and they also play here in Europe.

I would appreciate some information on this.

Brian Caswell.

[Eric Pautsch]

I was going to say that if you already have an NTSC disc, virtually every player in the world with play these. No need to go to PAL. I was in a store in London once and saw close to 50 titles that were NTSC.

[Bouke Vahl]

Another vote for ‘no need at all to go PAL’.
My last international project was done in NTSC only, while i’m in Pal land, just for the better compatibility.
Do not think that using desktop tools for transcoding will make 29.97 video better looking.
If it was 23.976 or 24 you could speed up to 25, and have a better image, but NTSC interlaced to Pal is very difficult.
There are magic recepies how to do it with Compressor, but in practice, this only works for very short pieces. You get crashes, render time will kill you (think 40 times RT at least) and you need a lot of trial and error to get it right.

If it’s not up to you to decide if a pal version is needed or not, and you have a budget, go out to a facility that has a Snell & Wilcox hardware box and let them do the conversion.

Bouke

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[Roman Melekh]

“lot of trial and error” – this is MAC+Compressor ?

I think PC + Procoder = Snell&Wilcox 🙂

[Roman Melekh]

..or you can try “GV Edius” (PC) or Canopus ProCOder (PC) to transcode your video