NTSC to PAL Conversion

Rogueone wrote on 10/20/2005, 7:19 AM
I recently filmed and edited a play. The play was done in Central Ohio. One of the families recently contacted me, saying they'd like to send a copy to their parents. . . who live in England.

I've never done a PAL conversion before. Do I just render out my project into PAL DVD Architect video stream? Or do I have to change my project properties to PAL, and then render into PAL?

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Chienworks wrote on 10/20/2005, 7:24 AM
Whenever you render the project properties are effectively temporarily changed to that render format. There's no need to do it manually. You can see this for yourself by watching the frame size/frame rate listed under the preview window. As soon as you start rendering these values change to match the selected render template.
Rogueone wrote on 10/20/2005, 7:26 AM
So I can just render out into PAL, and it all should be fine, then? I just wanted to make sure I got it right, since I my DVD player won't be able to read the final disc!!

Thanks,

Ben
Laurence wrote on 10/20/2005, 1:01 PM
Be aware that most of the little portable LCD screen portable DVD players can play back both NTSC and PAL. If you have one of these, they can be useful for checking PAL DVDs in NTSC-land Some of the cheap Chinese DVD players will play back PAL DVDs on an NTSC TV as well. Cyberhome DVD players for instance will usually play back both formats regardless of TV type. I have a Magnavox 17" widescreen LCD TV / DVD player combo. That will play back both formats as well.
farss wrote on 10/20/2005, 2:34 PM
It's very likely that the folks in the UK will be able to play your NTSC DVD just fine, certainly almost every TV / DVD player down here can cope with NTSC but I guess we need some input from the likes of Grazie to know for certain about the UK.
If you do want to convert to PAL then yes, just render to PAL using one of the PAL DVD templates. Ideally set for Best as the pixels are being remapped. In versions prior to 6.0 I've got significantly better results by turning on Reduce Interlace Flicker in the events properties. Whatever glitch caused this to be required seems to be fixed in V6.0.
You can view the resulting DVD on your PC, not a 100% full test but it'll let you see most of what you need to.
Bob.
Mahesh wrote on 10/21/2005, 12:54 AM
Almost, all DVD players in UK will play back NTSC DVD in PAL-60 format.
I have done many conversions fro PAL to NTSC. I normally let Vegas to do the conversion. Just render as.... and Vegas does a good job.

I reently made an NTSC DVD where first play, our logo, was brought in as PAL AVI. DVDA did a pretty good job of converting this to NTSC.
Ptero wrote on 10/21/2005, 6:57 AM
I recently sent an NTSC DVD to my parents in the UK, together with a .AVI format file on CD in case they couldn't play the DVD. Dad tells me the DVD played just fine, though.
Rogueone wrote on 10/21/2005, 7:03 AM
I didn't think the process would take so long, though! I've got 2 discs, the first one being 58 minutes long. It took roughly an hour and 50 minutes to render into NTSC. I tried PAL, and it stopped the process, because the counter was estimating 15 1/2 hrs at least. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is just NTSC to PAL conversions a lot more intensive than I thought.

Ben
Chienworks wrote on 10/21/2005, 7:22 AM
It's definately intensive. There are both frame size and frame rate conversions going on. Let it run overnight.