PAL and NTSC video formats on single Worldwide playable DVD

Daniel Ludwig
July 27, 2011 at 6:45 pm

John,
if your DVD should play worldwide, you need to go NTSC, because PAL-video will not be played on NTSC-player, but NTSC will be played on PAL-player and HD wont be played on SD-players.

so your way is NTSC.

cheers

danny
John Jarvis
July 27, 2011 at 8:04 pm

Thanks Danny that’s great, NTSC it is.

Does that mean I need to concert all non NTSC videos to 29.97fps before beginning to author the DVD through encore?

If so, exactly what format do all videos need to converted to .eg frame rate, dimensions, progressive/interlaced, quicktimes format?

Which software is this best done in, or can encore simply import and convert on the fly if I use a NTSC setup?

Thanks for your help.
Daniel Ludwig
July 28, 2011 at 7:13 pm

john,
all assets must be NTSC, that means 720×480 in NSTC-aspec-ratio. if you have some PAL-stuff the best way to go is:

1. deinterlace to PAL 25p
2. conform to 24p
3. encode to NTSC 24p – in fact it will be encoded to 29.98NDF, that means you´ll have 24p with 3:2-pulldown for 29.98.

please keep in mind, that if you have HD interlaced source your NTSC-MPEG2 needs to have the same field-order.

mostly NTSC is lower field first, if you have straight NTSC-material, but if you have interlaced HD-material you need to encode it upper first.

cheers

danny
Geoff Vane
March 27, 2012 at 9:11 am

Danny I’d like to ask some questions about Pal & Ntsc.
PLease mail to geoffathomedotnl

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