PAL Blu-Ray – Flicker when previewing in NTSC region

[Schroeder Eric]

Yeah,

I think you are right on the money, I mucked up my original encode making a progressive file at 25 FPS. I fired up Adobe Encore and when setting up a new PAL project and playing with the settings, the only option to get a progressive scan for PAL is going to be:

1280×1080 at 50 FPS

Whenever the other (2) options are selected

1440×1080
1920×1080

The only option in regards to field dominance defaults to Upper field first at 50i for these PAL project settings. Looks like I should have made at file that was 50i with upper field dominance if this was the case.

It seems the only way to get a full on Progressive scanned at HD sizes such at 1920×1080 & 1440×1080 in Encore is to make a project at a frame rate of 23.976. For Encore however, the only time this is allowed is if I set the television standard to be NTSC and the drop down menu for frame rate selection than allows me to select 23.976. This leads me to ask:

Do people in PAL formatted areas that have Blu-Ray players have the capability to play back on there Players at 23.976? The fact that Encore doesn’t have a dropdown for 23.976 when the television standard is set to PAL throws red flags up in mind on this capability and I’m wondering if anyone has tested this out before.