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  • To pal or ntsc that is the question?

    Posted by Roen Davis on September 22, 2006 at 5:17 am

    Hi there !
    we are down under PALies and we are sending a festival entry DVD to the US and not sure whether it should be PAL or NTSC – and since the master is PAL I am guessing that Encore will not “standards convert” – any advice will accepted with open arms!

    Neil Wilkes replied 19 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Neil Wilkes

    September 22, 2006 at 9:59 am

    95% of all PAL machines will play an NTSC disc.
    95% of all NTSC machines will NOT play a PAL disc.
    If you are sending to the USA, it must be NTSC. Simple.

    “Standards Conversion” of an authored disc is next to impossible to do.
    Menus are a different resolution & PAR.
    Video is a different resolution & frame rate.
    You must rebuild as an NTSC project – redesigning all menus, and converting all Video.

    Sorry about this – but that is the way it is.

  • Vince Becquiot

    September 27, 2006 at 3:27 am

    The best way to convert to NTSC using a software based solution is Canopus Procoder IMO.

    Vince

  • Neil Wilkes

    September 27, 2006 at 6:13 pm

    Which will not do the menus.

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