Set it in those places and PD will do the conversion. It will probably produce the video again if it os currently NTSC. __________________________________
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Jaime-esque

Thank you for the response. I will go with it.

Martinray Windows XP Home Edition
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Hi, Martinray. I would've thought that a disc created in the PAL colour system will work in nearly all countries that use this system. There are a few countries that used a hybrid version of PAL, adapted to a USA-type power system(power delivered at 60Hz line frequency as opposed to 50Hz, around which PAL was designed). PAL has been proven to be the superior colour TV system. NTSC a distant second and the French SECAM, not worth bothering about - total crap! Thing to do here might be to look up the CCIR system for each country, which tells you the type of colour system used, number of channels, channel width, and so on. PAL is the preferred system across most of Europe, including the Scandinavian countries, Britain and Australasia(Australia/New Zealand). There should be no compatibility problems in any of these countries. As you are, like me, a hobby videographer, your disc is of home movies(assumedly), thus there will not be any region code embedded in your disc.(commercial DVDs have this and it is the element that restricts where a disc can be used). Hope this info is of use to you. Cheers!

Hi Neil.f.1955,

Thanks for the information - very interesting. I did create a DVD specifying PAL in the two options I mentioned.
It played just fine on my computer.
Then I tried my DVD player. It would play but no color, just black and white. I also noticed a blinking. I think it has to do with frame difference, PAL is 25 frames, NTSC is 30 frames. So I assume it is how the DVD player handles it. A DVD created by our cousins in Sweden will not play on my DVD player but would on my brothers DVD player.

Thanks again for the info. Windows XP Home Edition
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System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel Pentium 4 3 Ghz
Memory 4 GB

Hi again, Martinray! Your domestic DVD player gives only monochrome image and blinking due to frame rate differences between PAL and NTSC? Check the instruction manual(if you still have it) for your player, you'll likely see it has instructions for playing DVDs made in other colour systems(usually PAL, many players do not handle SECAM, it's a waste of time to provide compatibility with that worthless system!). Follow the instructions and your player will then handle your disc without problems. Some players have automatic detection of colour system which picks up the difference as soon as you load the disc. And sometimes, a home-burn disc won't play on a domestic player, not because of colour system differences, sometimes it's due to the disc drive in the computer, and at other times it might be the software(other than Cyberlink, that is). I had NTI video editing software on the computer before the one I have now. Apart from being painfully slow at rendering and burning discs(it had to go through about 6 or 7 long, tedious steps), some of the discs would not play on the machines of people I may have given them to(my own analogue camerawork or that of others who wanted their old VHS stuff converted). When I got hold of my first Cyberlink PD programme, it was a massive step forward. Fast rendering and fast DVD burning!..... WUNDERBAR!!! I copied the NTI resources(sound effects and other stuff) but uninstalled the programme and have never looked back!. So it's likely that another software was used by your cousins, or their disc drive may have burned it and rendered incompatible. or perhaps a third possibility, have you checked if the disc from your Swedish cousin was a DVD-5(single-layer) or a DVD-9(dual-layer). Domestic players won't handle home-burn discs if they're dual-layer, regardless of how they're created. Dual-layer DVD-R or DVD+R discs are fine for archival puposes*, but that's about it for them. Cheers!(*Keyboard gremlins! Should've read "purposes!)

Hi Neil.f.1955,
Thanks again for your response. I checked the DVD player manual and there are no options for other color systems or PAL. It is an older unit and was not very expensive. The DVD from Sweden is a single layer. I am glad you are having good results with PD. I have enjoyed using it, PD allows one to be very creative.
Thanks again for your information.
Martinray Windows XP Home Edition
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
Dell Computer Corporation
System Model Dimension 4600i
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel Pentium 4 3 Ghz
Memory 4 GB

Hi again, Martinray! It seems your DVD player might be a first-generation entry-level model(in other words, a basic no-frills model) which, while being able to play home-burned discs, seems to have issues with any disc burned to other colour systems, like the German-created PAL system. As you noted, the disc is single-layer(designated as "DVD-5") typically 4.7 gigabytes. So that's one bullet dodged, but the vintage of your model, and its apparent lack of compatibility with colour systems used elsewhere would be your drawback. Surprisingly enough, DVD players today are quite cheap, as far as Australia is concerned. You could walk into a Betta Electrical, or a Harvey Norman store, or even a Dick Smith Electronics shop anywhere in Australia and, for an outlay of $55 to $75 or $80, pick up a fairly good player that will handle DVDs made to PAL or NTSC system standards, and, in the case of commercially-made DVD movie discs, are multi-region players. Quite frankly, though, the idea of region-encoding just adds an entirely unnecessary extra level of incompatibility, that we, as consumers could well do without! Lucky for us that our home-burn discs DON'T have that feature, otherwise how would your cousins in Sweden be able to play the discs you send to them? Just as an after-thought, next time you're in contact with them, ask them if their player is NTSC-compatible, might save a lot of headaches!