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Want to create a PAL DVD
Gabriele [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Sep 24, 2008 10:58 Messages: 1 Offline
[Post New] Sep 24, 2008 11:10
Hi all,

I have Power Director Deluxe 7 for Windows Vista, and I installed the latest patch. I want to create a DVD to send to Italy, where they use the PAL system. I finished my project and produced an mpeg-2 file in PAL, but when I go and create the disc, I'm not sure whether PowerDirector creates the DVD in PAL as it does not give me any option of choosing so. If I try and open the create disc settings, there's no option where I can choose the disc format (PAL or NTSC). So I burned the dvd anyway and I tried to play it on an old DVD player which only plays NTSC and surprisingly it plays the disc. I suppose the disc was not burned as PAL...
Please help...
Thanks.

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at Sep 24. 2008 11:12

Dafydd B [Avatar]
Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline
[Post New] Sep 25, 2008 07:59
Most DVD players will accept either. We are NOT concerned here with region setting issues by commercial DVD.

Due to compression methods, frame rate etc is blurred somewhat.

I have a PD6 created NTSC DVD video created by a lady in California and that plays, displays etc without any issues on my TV/DVD PAL set up here in the UK.

You can select to create an Mpeg as a PAL etc and go through that route, there may be frame rate distortion which will effect the length of the video. I suggest you just send a NTSC disc and wait for a reply.

Dafydd

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Colin [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Jun 28, 2008 10:27 Messages: 2 Offline
[Post New] Sep 27, 2008 02:48
From experience, I completely endorse that advice.

I have an NTSC HD camera and live in Australia which has PAL as the local TV standard.

After many attempts to convert NTSC to PAL (and vice versa) I realised the loss in quality and jumpy video due to different frame rates was not worth it. PAL is 25 frames per second, whilst NTSC is 30 fps.

Any conversion between the two generally is a poor compromise with a loss in quality.
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