DVD NTSC conversion to DVD PAL

I had a DVD NTSC converted to a DVD PAL, and when I play it on my Mac DVD Player the image is dropped below center, and looks slightly narrower. I thought any format DVD played on the computer?Was I wrong, or is it a bad conversion?

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    Hello All
    I recently had some work involving standard conversion of DV PAL material and then burning said material onto DVD. Everybody trying it knows that this is time consuming and doesn't always produce the desired results - for obvious reasons (Methods used by me were the two documented on Dan Slagle's Unofficial iMovie FAQ).
    I then had the really "fantastic" idea to tweak the DVD with myDVDedit, by simply setting the IFO parameters to NTSC 720x480. Tested the burned DVD on two different set-top NTSC DVD players - and discarded the whole thing as "silly BS"
    Searching through the Net I just found out, that somebody had the same idea using IFOedit (the PC equivalent to myDVDedit) and that the results were mixed, but there were a lot of users that shouted: "great, this works".
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    that is such a .. <searching correct english word> hillarious (?) idea, I give you a star for that ;-)))
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    the name is irritating, but all mighty JES Deinterlacer is doing a fantastic job in converting video standards (ok, for a free software solution...) give that a try!

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    i opted to choose PAL for my PB's DVD player as i buy
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  • Real World Experience - TIPS - Pal to NTSC and Authoring DVDS on both

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    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..
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    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 DVD - NTSC DV

    I have been trying to convert a PAL DVD to NTSC DV.
    I have tried iMovie, MPEG Stremclip, MPEG2 Works 4 and JES Deinterlacer. The NTSC comes out okay but if there is a slight motion in the video, there are lines/combs ?
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    DVD can be either bottom field first or top field first but DV is always bottom field first. A wrong setting in the conversion can produce very irritating flicker if the field dominance ends wrong. But the procedure above should automagically use the right settings.
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  • NTSC footage for a Pal DVD

    Hello everyone
    i have to make a DVD for Europe- PAL
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  • Is this true?? NTSC dvd projects will play in PAL players

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    http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/tips_tricks/6017.shtml
    States:
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  • Problems with PAL/NTSC Conversion

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    Your camcorder cannot record PAL material if it's a NTSC model. You need a plugin that converts PAL material to NTSC.
    There is a nice plugin pack from Nattress that performs PAL to NTSC conversion with various pulldown options (ie scalling 30 fps to 24 fps by blending frames selectively).
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  • PAL to NTSC conversion

    Hi
    I tried using compressor to do a PAL to NTSC conversion on a completed project, but found it pixelated all still photos and graphics in my project. It was also going to take 18 hrs (macbook pro 2.4ghz)
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    Test2 - reinterlace chroma option, no real difference to default settings, still minimal artifacts every fourth frame in certain shots
    Test3 - reinterlace chroma option, progressive out and telecine instead of blend, this option appear to increase artifact pulsing, in certain shots.
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