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Making a PAL DVD
I want t make a couple copies of a wedding video for my buddy’s mom in England.
SD DV NTSC project:
Got a general error when trying to export a QT with PAL settings, so I guess that was wrong.
If a change sequence settings(to PAL-DV 48) I, of course, have all kinds of cropping issues.
So what’s a mother to do. It’s simple, right? Well I don’t get it. When someone gets a minute…thanks:-) -
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Pretty much all PAL tv’s and DVD players play NTSC. If she has a problem , you can use the Nattress Standards Converter plugin ($99) or Compressor (extremely slow, but free and good quality) to convert to PAL and make a PAL DVD.
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Yeah, that’s what I thought. But alas, no. Will try with Compressor. Thanks
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You’re pretty much wasting your time and quality. Give them an NTSC disc and you will be fine. Virtually all PAL player play NTSC discs.
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But the folks across the pond are complaining of “big, green blocks” on their screen
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But the folks across the pond are complaining of “big, green blocks” on their screen
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What bit rate did you encode at? Did you encode your audio to AC3
That could be an entirely different problem
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When exporting a QT from the NTSC timeline/sequence?
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[Mark Richford] “When exporting a QT from the NTSC timeline/sequence?”
No. When encoding your Quicktime in Compressor to MPEG-2 and AC3 to make your DVD.
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It’s just so not true that all DVD player/screen combinations in PAL land will play NTSC discs. Some will, many will play a hybrid near-decent version (NTSC 4.43) which some screens show OK and some not, a few older players and many older screens (there are lots of them) won’t show anything at all.
From a PAL land resident!
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Mark,
I have done some conversion from NTSC to PAL of my kids’ dance recitals. I live in Belgium, shot multicamera and had some good footage and cut a simple video for the moms and dads.
I was able to use Compressor to convert an FCP sequence to MPEG-2 PAL imported to DVDSP to complete the project. When you get the NTSC sequence opened in Compressor, you can change the format in the Inspector window, 2nd tab, if I remember correctly.
Have you tried Compressor yet? Any luck?
Art
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