Authoring a DVD for both PAL & NTSC regions - convert pal project to ntsc?

Hello gurus
I have programmed and built a DVD in DVDSP for PAL regions. But my cleint has come back to me and asked for an NTSC version.
I have re-encoded all assets for NTSC but am now struggling to find a simple way to convert the programming. DVDSP is asking me to remove all assets and menus and basically re-programme the whole disk again...
Do any of you peeps have any quick fixes???
Thank you in advance
Jay

There is no reason why you can't save the PAL project as a new project - NTSC version - then take out all the assets that are video (and therefore PAL) then change the project to NTSC settings. This way the basic structure is there - you will need to reconnect stuff etc and you may find that buttons you have created "disappear" from the menu screens (due to the different frame size of NTSC and PAL)
I have done this in the past where projects had scripts and the like and were fairly complex - it's not ideal but might save some time in redoing the project

Similar Messages

Can some explain 1080i and 1080p which is better for a pal project in HD

I am new with these type of codec, plus which one is better for a pal projects not NTSC. Also I want to know if there would be any problems when I take a project that is done in Pal and move it to NTSC would there be some frame problems.
thanks

I like the p footage better because it looks more like film, plays better on the computer, and looks better in web streams... as far as going to NTSC in the end, Compressor's "advanced format conversions" or Graeme Nattress' Standards converter does a fine job of PAL to NTSC... Edit in the native format you've shot though, then in the end do the standards conversion. You needn't worry about anything special here...
Jerry

I need to author DVD for both ntsc, pal,& different regions.Need some help

Hey guys
I have a school project in relation with a company. We have to create many DVDs for there training courses. They train dogs and they need us to edit the video footage and author the dvds READY FOR SALE.
First off. I don't know at this moment but I believe that these dvds might need to be in both pal and ntsc format, maybe also in different regions. Therefore my first question is
1. What format should I convert the video footage to, before I start my video editing, if I want to author my final edit to dvd?
--> Would it be mpeg2 min 6 mbps max 8 mbps because as I know that is the format for dvd. Or do you leave it as the native camera format eg DV.
2. What frame size should I convert that original video footage to aswell?
3. What things do I need to know regarding pal and ntsc formats. How do I prepare a dvd ready for both formats? What format do I edit in
4. What do I need to know regarding doifferent regions, and how do I set up my dvd for different regions?
5. Is there anything else I need to know before I start editing so I do get into any trouble later on?

dang itpowda, you killing me.. haha jk!
anyway, ok i see where you can be confused. hopefully this can answer yoru questions.
ok in the NTSC world, if you are creating a graphic file for exampe for TV, then you would create the file with a square pixel (PAR = 1.0 in this case) and your frame size will be 720x540 only because if you create it using the rectagular NTSC pixel, your image will look sueezed and you would have to resize the graphic anyway for TV because remember, you would be creating it on a computer monitor that has a PAR of 1.0 natively, although your DAR is the same, the PAR is not. now, when you have video in D1 NTSC, you would have a rectangular pixel (PAR = 0.9 in this case) and a frame size of 720x486.
ok, now PAL. once again, if we are creating a CG file for video on a computer, we can creat it using a square pixel and then resize it for PAL TV and the PAR in this case would be 720x768. the reason for this is because in PAL, the PAR is 1.0667, NOT .09 as in NTSC. both standards share the same rectangular pixel.
now for the DAR. lets assume we are talking about a full frame TV set for a minute. we know that both PAL and NTSC standards, although with different PAR (0.9 vs. 1.0667) have the same DAR (in this case 1.33:1 in decimal form which you obtain from dividing the ratio (whole number) first number by the second). you have to remember we get the DAR of 4:3 assuming that it is a FF picture because the image on the screen takes up 4 units wide to 3 units high. in PAL or NTSC this is true, regardless of PAR. the differences in PAL and NTSC come from the refresh rate, PAR, frame rate and color space to name some and keep it simplistic.
i hope that is somewhat clear. now, to answer your questions:
First thing. If PAL and NTSC both had a PAR of 1:1, they would both have a DAR of 720*540, true?
nope, if you have or want a PAR of 1:1 (to create CG files), then NTSC would be 720x540 and PAL would be 720x768.
the rest of your questions are pretty much false :P
now, you might be wondering, HOW N THE HECK DID HE GET THOSE NUMBERS!
ok, lets say you need to create a CG file on a computer, but want to keep the PAR right (remember, if you create said file with a frame size of 720x576 and a DAR of 1:1, your image will be squeezed a bit) you have to take into account a specific formula in video needed to do such and many more conversions!
let me show you how i obtained 720x768 for a PAR of 1:1...
we know we want to keep the width the same, since we are creating a image file for the PAL video.
lets get some numbers straight first:
width = 576
DAR = 4:3 (or 1.333 in decimal form)
so it would be 576 * 1.333 = 767.808 OR as a whole number 768.
how did i get the above formula:
i know the DAR of my input (from 4:3 video), i know the PAR of my ouput (from a 1:1 CG file) and i have my height from video (576). so the unknown variable in this case is the width.
so it would look something like this:
width = 576 * (4/3) / (1/1)
ok, we know that we want to convert the ratio of 4:3 and 1:1 into decimals (makes it easier to work with mathmatically).
when we do this, we get:
w = 576 * 1.333 / 1
we know that when you divide a number by one, you get the same value back, so for simplicity sake, lets take the sole 1 out, since it doesnt matter because 1.333 wont change in value:
w = 576 * 1.333 = 676.808 or when you round up to the nearest whole number, you get w = 678!
as long as you have the 3 of the 4 possible variables for the above formual, you can mathmatically get the variable you need.
i am exhausted, i need a beer!
Mikey M.

Producing NTSC dvd's from PAL projects

Hi
I'm in Australia (PAL) but would like to produce dvd's that can be viewed in the USA.
If I produce a NTSC version of my PAL filmed project in idvd, will it work in NTSC dvd players in the USA?

when you set iDVD to NTSC/29.97 and import a PAL iMovie, iDVD will convert your material and creates a NTSC videoDVD ...
... my experience, going vice versa, NTSC >>PAL, told me, that the underlying QTengine doesn't show a good result.. so, the long way for a probably better result is:
export your iM as 'QT/Full Quality' ..
download and use for free JES Deinterlacer
open your iMexport, choose 'Project, conversion' and let JESDI do the conversion..
drop THAT new file into a NTSC iDVD project..

How do I produce a 16/9 aspect ratio DVD for both computer and standard TV display

Starting with clips recorded on a TM700, record mode HG1920, captured into FCE 4.0.1 and edited using FCE's recommended settings. The sequences were exported to quicktime movie. They were then brought into iDVD 7.0.4, which was set to 16:9 aspect ratio. The results were as expected when shown on the iMac but when the disc was burnt and shown on a standard DVD player through a modern 16:9 TV the image was far wider than the screen although the verticle dimension appears to be correct.
It appears that the DVD player or iDVD has assumed anamorphic recording and has stretched the width and can't find out how to turn this off. The DVD works well when played on the iMac when using DVD Player

Hi many thanks for the thought, I have been through all the options on the TV aspect ratio button.
If 16:9 TVs are anamorphic then that implies that my clips should be recorded anamorphically (if that's a word), if so then can this be done? Also if this is done then what will that do to the replay through the computer, which appears to work?
It's looking more and more that the 2 display mediums are incompatible.
p.s. I should have added that it is in the UK with PAL.
Peter

Authoring multiple DVD for DVD changer

I happen to be authoring 5 separate DVD's for a trade show to be played in a DVD changer on site and was wondering how I should author them so when one DVD in finished the DVD changer will move on to the next disc.
I am currently setting each disc to run the video as its "first play" (therefore no one has to physically press a play button and babysit the player).. but am unsure how to program the disc once the video is finished playing so the changer just moves on to disc 2/3/4/5 etc.
- Should I NOT author an end jump after the track?....Will the DVD changer recognize this as the end of the disc and move to the next disc.
Thanks in advance
-

theres nothing you can author to tell a changer to change a disc. However you can get players which are synced to each other and will behave this way.
How long total is ALL 4 videos - maybe you can get them on 1 disc?

Creating a video DVD for PAL TV using video from an NTSC Camcorder

Hey Guys,
I'll be owning an AVCHD NTSC camcorder (Canon HF S10) and need to know whether Final Cut Express includes the functionality of importing the video from the camcorder and exporting it to a DVD for a PAL TV system.
Will you share your experience?
Many thanks!
-Max

I'd suggest you do a search of the forum. This has been discussed often. Yes, FCE supports AVCHD. Most PAL DVD player will play back NTSC.

NTSC footage for a Pal DVD

Hello everyone
i have to make a DVD for Europe- PAL
but the footage was shot on NTSC-DV
If the settings of my DVD Studio Pro project -video standard is on PAL
but the quicktime i import to my video track is NTSC
will the client be able to play this dvd in europe?
i would appreciate any help
thanks
Danny

Hi::
If the settings of my DVD Studio Pro project -video standard is on PAL
but the quicktime i import to my video track is NTSC
will the client be able to play this dvd in europe?
You cannot import NTSC assets into a PAL DVDSP project. You must first re-encode your movie to the right standard.
You can find some info about how to do so in this thread in Compressor forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1015451&tstart=15
Hope that helps !
Alberto

The optimum DVD authoring/rep/dupe for 100% of consumer playback success

I'm needing to know from the pros in here the best workflow for DVD creation. We're doing a national distribution of a DVD (5000 first press) and want to ensure that this DVD will play in all players as well as auto play in those players.
Or at least have a 95% success rate. I'm not sure what is "acceptable loss" when it comes to mass distribution.
Things like what software is used to author...what format is presented to the replication house...what kind/brand of DVDs are best used to replicate to...and so forth.
Any ideas which will lessen the odds of problems down the line from our customers?
Thanks in advance!

Hey David! Let me address your points here so you can get a better understanding of what we're doing:
+So I take it you have this; written/story boarded, shot, donuts, color corrected, edited, properly formated. blah blah and blah. And you ready to go to dvd.....+
You are correct. Like the thread title basically implicates, need help with playback success. Not creation of a master.
+So this dvd will be in all the; bookstores, Walmarts, Blockbusters, Starbucks so on and so on... Your going to need more than 5000 for a national distrubtion.+
Nope...this is a DVD that is distributed among all the sports centers in the country. We're an athletic/fitness company. I think I have good enough product knowledge of what we sell to know a quantity to forecast for first runs. All coffee houses and blue light specials can get their own DVD to sell. lol
+I would be happy with 25%. I could retired... Wait a sec I am retired.+
Not with us. No time to retire as well.
+Pay someone to author the dvd for you.+
We are paying someone else to do this for us. Money is not an issue and not a cheap hillbilly deal. It also doesn't hurt to be armed with a little knowledge and understanding of the process before embarking on that journey. Enter the discussion groups.
+Why on earth would you burn this to dvd. Have the dvd pressed.+
Didn't I say "pressed" in my posting? I don't know a lot about this, but I know enough to know that much. Success rate is very important.
+It might (and will) cost more for the software, dvds, dvd replicators, cases, printed inserts and headaches will probably cost you more than to hand over the material for the dvd to someone to build the dvd and then sending it to the replicators.+
You are correct. Again...we're not doing the job. A "Pro" lab will. Sounds like you assumed we were tackling the job from start to finish. But there are good and bad houses out there I'm sure (as with anything else you farm out these days) so a little understanding of what to ask these places of their methods/procedures might save ourselves some money and headaches down the road.
*Well, the same question goes folks...any more tips?*
Thanks for playing David! I appreciate your advice and tips..

Is it better to export an iMovie project as QT and use Toast to burn a DVD for general use or to export to iDVD and burn VD from there? Why?

Is it better to export an iMovie project as QT and use Toast to burn a DVD for general use - or to export iMovie project to iDVD and burn DVD from there? Why?

Toast probably maintains better quality if you are just doing simple conversion direct from your camera straight into Toast and then to DVD. There's a lot less transcoding steps and loss of quality in that direct to DVD disk creation in Toast. However, having said that,...There's good arguments probably for both.
What I've seen promoted most often (as most people don't have Toast or aren't motivated to buy it) is to Share to Media Browser (choose the Large size option) and then from inside iDVD click the Media Button and the Movies button to find the project under the iMovie star icon in the Media Browser window. Drag that project into your iDVD project and burn the disk.

False error message of overlapping timecodes in PAL project

I am working on importing a .txt subtitle folder for a PAL project and an NTSC project. I have the same document for flowing the subtitles for PAL and NTSC except that the PAL uses colons in the timecode and NTSC uses semicolons.
The NTSC project flowed the subtitles in perfectly. The PAL says that I have overlapping timecodes. I do not. Any clues to why I have this bug?

Thanks Guys. I forgot about my post because I figured it out right after I left it. Any timecode that was 00:00:03:28 00:00:04:00 or 00:00:03:29 00:00:04:01 gave me the issue. I shifted them so that they wouldn't overlap the second and all was well.

Real World Experience - TIPS - Pal to NTSC and Authoring DVDS on both

I have just completed a DVD project.
It was shot and edited in Pal and then authored to both Pal and NTSC DVDS ( Pal for Europe - NTSC for Japan and USA)
Standards Conversion:
I used both compressor and graham Nattress' excellent G (for Graham?) Standards converter.
Compressor was a fast work around for a quick pal to ntsc conversion at ok quality. Since my footage is very demanding (lots of handheld heli shots, water housing footage)i imagine it was giving the converters a real work out).
The Nattress G converter was much slower but the results were as close to perfection as i would imagine a software solution can get. Obviously the extra render time was working extra hard to get the conversion looking good.
For anyone going down this path - For your master you just have to use the natress converter- thanks Graham - best $100 i have spent this year.
MPG2 encoding
i did this using compressor and it worked well.
Here is the rub - i THOUGHT compressor was not doing my MPG 2 conversion at acceptable quality - it was actually the lack of quality out of compressors fast and easy solution for pal - ntsc that was giving me banding on moving objects and color issues.
I suspect this may be where some people think they are coming unstuck with compressor. (go back and check you ntsc conversion relative to your original pal quality)
I hope this saves anyone else in my situation some time.
In summary - when working in PAL (ie you are shooting and editing in Europe or Australia)Your work flow should be - shoot and edit in Pal ,convert with Natress, encode with compressor (compressor 2.1 - i use 7.7 mbs max, 6.0 mbs av - 2 pass variable - use ac3 for audio) - which has actually been working well for me (despite various threads about issues with compressor)
Hope this come up nicely for anyone doing a search. Thank you to everyone who has helped me on the way and good night!

Rory85 wrote:
Ok cool, thanks Stan.
Re-doing the Encore stuff, as much as that would/will suck, it's not my worst fear.. the thing that scares me the most is the thought of re-doing all of the Premiere work again.. If an NTSC Encore project can convert a PAL Premiere working file to a NTSC DVD, I can live with re-working the Encore stuff.. And yea, Dynamic link takes care of all of the chapter markers, so that wouldn't be a big issue - it'd just be a matter of re-building the menus..
But yea, if anyone has a definite yes or no answer on whether or not Encore can turn a PAL Premiere project into a NTSC DVD, I'd love to know.. The person I'm doing the work for doesn't want to spend thousands of dollars getting PAL dvds printed etc unless we absolutely know it's going to be a complete re-start to get it to NTSC..
Thanks again,
Rory
Hi Rory.
It's not possible in Encore or Premiere.
The conversion process is a complex one & consists of changing the actual resolution from 720x576 to 720x480, which gives a very different shaped pixel as well.
Then it also changes the frame rate of the footage from 25 to 29.97.
The easiest way to do this with Adobe tools is to use Atter Effects, making sure that the AE render is locked to the duration of the composition - this is critical, or you will end up with footage at the wrong speed. All menus will need to be rebuilt.
Sorry I cannot give you better news.
As a general rule of thumb, if in doiubt - create & author in NTSC as there are almost no PAL setups that cannot output either pure NTSC or PAL-60, yet there are very few that can go the other way.....

PAL-authored Final Cut Express project...how to burn to DVD for NTSC audien

Not sure if this is possible...and through searching a few previous posts it sounds like it may require additional software...but what the heck, thought I'd ask anyway ! I operate in UK and have made several FCE movies for friends in the UK which I've burnt onto a DVD and sent to them as gifts. Now I want to do the same for a friend in the States, and I'm wondering how to go about the PAL>>NTSC issue. Would it be easiest to just take the PAL-dvd and pay somebody at Jessops etc to convert it onto a NTSC dvd for me? I don't mind paying a few quid for someone else to do it, especially if it would require me to go out and buy all kinds of software to be able to do it myself... But I'm worried about how the picture files, music, titling, special effects etc would come out. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks.

Not sure if this is possible...and through searching
a few previous posts it sounds like it may require
additional software...but what the heck, thought I'd
ask anyway ! I operate in UK and have made several
FCE movies for friends in the UK which I've burnt
onto a DVD and sent to them as gifts. Now I want to
do the same for a friend in the States, and I'm
wondering how to go about the PAL>>NTSC issue. Would
it be easiest to just take the PAL-dvd and pay
somebody at Jessops etc to convert it onto a NTSC dvd
for me? I don't mind paying a few quid for someone
else to do it, especially if it would require me to
go out and buy all kinds of software to be able to do
it myself... But I'm worried about how the picture
files, music, titling, special effects etc would come
out. Anybody have any experience with this? Thanks.
Toast 7.x is able to burn a PAL-project on a NTSC-dvd. In the preferences of Toast you can decide wether the output will be a PAL- or a NTSC-dvd.
For friends in Brazil I burned a NTSC-dvd, but I still don't know if it works!
Give it a try on a dvd-rw.
iMac G5 2GHz & Powerbook 12 1.25GHz Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Converting h264 720p ntsc footage to pal DVD for a client and get no audio.

Hey,
I tried dropping the rendered video into the encoder first and then tried to render from the h264 timeline to a new PAL DVD file directly and neither one has audio.
Is there something I am missing?
Windows 7 ultimate
8 core AMD R9270x graphics card (Open Cl working great for rendering now)

Most DVD players can handle both PAL (Europe and other countries) and NTSC.
No practical method to change the frames per second rate without introducing other problems.

Convert PAL project to NTSC to burn a region free DVD

I have a two part question that I'm in need of advice on.
PAL/NTSC
I have a short film in a premiere project format PAL 25fps. In order to prepare for DVD burning do I need to just convert the exported PAL file to NTSC or do I need to begin with a premiere project with sequence setting as NTSC 29.9fps?
Then...
Do I just burn to a blank DVD using a standard DVD burner?
Thanks in advance!

Convert on export, but you will take a quality hit, Premiere has to somehow create 4.97 extra frame every second, this will show on any moving material. There are special hardware convertors that do a better job but these tend to be expensive. You will have to author the dvd using a program like Encore that can be downloaded using Adobe CC (you will need to get Premiere CS6 as this includes the last version of Encore).

Authoring a DVD for both PAL & NTSC regions - convert pal project to ntsc?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for