PAL system?

I’m looking at a dvd recorder and want to make sure it will work with my FIOS. It says: “TV Tuner Receiving System: PAL. This unit Records TV/cable programs where broadcasting is in PAL system. (No NTSC Tuner. Will not record NTSC TV/cable programs in USA)”

Where did you get the dvd recorder at? PAL is a video standard used only in Europe and will not work in the US. NTSC devices will only work in the north America. Think of it like DVDs and Video Games, that are region locked. I never understand why there are different video standards, but there is nothing anyone can do about it. You will just need to get a NTSC dvd recorder

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Thank you for your help.
I have looked at making a custom version. But under the options of AVCHD 1080p anamorphic or square pixel there are only 23.976 or 25.00 or 29.97 frames per second.
But under AVCHD 720p there is the option of 50.00 frames per second but only square pixels. If I use the 720p setting I am going to lose quality (I do not know if the Panasonic HC-X920 (PAL system) is anamorphic or square pixel). What do you think?
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I bought my iPod Touch in the US, and some friends of mine offered me to lend me some European DVDs with musical concerts performed in Europe (PAL system).
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By the way, I use a PC with Windows XP Professional.
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Hi idunn:
Did this discussion help you or are you still having problems?
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Dear Mylenium,
You did put it a little blund, but your rigth.
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Hi! I'd like know how i can convert my ntsc project into PAL.
I need finish a DVD for my client take to ANGOLA and there is PAL system.It is possible? My Encore is 2.0.
Or It is possible put my NTSC movie into PAL project and let encore transcode the movie? Thank you very much and sorry my english.

You have several options.
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2 - Create an NTSC project in Premiere Pro, capture to NTSC DV footage, and export it out again.
Close project.
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Capturing NTSC into FCE with a PAL-Camcorder?

Hi. I have mini-dv cassettes with videos in ntsc format.
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Thanks Al for giving your thought on this.
As you suggested, I need a video standard converstion system? The video standard will stay as NTSC in the meantime. I only see the use of this standard conversion system when I need to edit both PAL and NTSC videos at thesame time, where I need to convert either one of the video standards into the other one so that as you said fce knows what type of footage it will deal with.
This leads me to think that the only way I can capture my NTSC videos into fce hd3.5 is to use an NTSC camcorder as well. That's exactly my problem bec in Germany they only sell PAL minidv cams unless you want to get Sony HVR-Z1U which is able to handle both NTSC and PAL system. That's expensive for me.
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Flash - SD Widescreen PAL DVD

Hey everyone, I did post this one level back as another topic, but then started reading around and figured this may be a better place to post. I apologize for the double post, won't happen again - I'm new to the user forums here and I admit that this is a bit of a desperate plea for help. I apologize in advance.
So, I've been working on a project recently that's been kind of difficult for me to test since I don't have access to the platform I'm trying to develop for. I was hoping somebody might be able to help guide me to the information I need, or let me know outright if I'm on the right track or completely out to lunch with my thinking here.
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Any guidance or help on this would be greatly appreciated. If there is any other information I can provide you with to help with understanding my plight, please let me know.
I'm a web designer backed into a corner here and really don't have a whole lot of video experience. I'm also living in Canada and don't have access to a PAL system to watch the final product on ... so I'm just trying to get my settings as accurate as I can on my end.
Thanks in advance.

>The screen capture resolution is 720 x 404 ... which is kind of odd to me.
On playback the movie is displayed with square pixels. If the DVD plays 720 pixels wide then the corresponding height will be 405 for a 16:9 movie.

Apple TV NTSC vs PAL

If i buy Apple TV in the usa, is it compatible with the PAL system in Europe or does it work only with NTSC

As Chenks says it will work anywhere - remember the TV must have HDMI or component inputs,it has no S-video/SCART/composite out.
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My original FCP Project was an PAL HDV Project. Once I finished editing, I put the sequence in a DV PAL sequence, rendered it and outputted as a FCP file. I put that file in compressor to make a m2v PAL file. I took the file into DVD SP as a PAL project and burned it as a SD DVD on the G5.
The DVD tested fine on a several DVD players.
My problem is that I sent the DVD to Europe and they are experiencing major 'strobing' issues. I know there is some jitterness with HDV on motion scenes, but they are seeing constant strobing on their PAL DVD players. Am I doing something wrong. I took the DVD to a post house in Los Angeles, and it plays fine in their PAL systems. It actually play fine in my NTSC DVD player as well.
There isn't much motion in the film, mostly interviews.
Any clues of why this would happen?

It was originally shot in PAL 1080i50 on a Sony Zu1. I am assuming that is true PAL.
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How to make a new project in PAL?

I would like to make a new iMOVIE project in PAL instead of NTSC but can't change the settings. I put the new project frame rate in preferences on 25 fps, but new projects are still in NTSC.
Does anyone have an idea?
I made a whole project in iMOVIE and inserted in iDVD and was disappointed about the quality of the movies, especially the blurred titles. Is this due to the conversion from NTSC to PAL? Or I'm a missing something?
Thanks in advance

Welcome to iMovie Discussions.
Projects really depend on the kind of camcorder (..if that's how your material originated..) which you used for shooting the video ..though you can create photo-only projects in either system (NTSC or PAL).
As far as I remember, Australia uses the PAL system, so if you've an Australian camcorder it should inform iMovie that it's to be a PAL project when you connect the cam.
In iMovie's Preferences, under 'General', you can select the "frame rate" of a new project, and for PAL you'd select "25 fps". That applies to the next project you create.
Then, when you start any new project you get a small window which says:
Click on the little triangle next to "Video format" and choose the shape and format of your project:
If you change your Preference before starting a new project - so that the next one will be at 25 fps - and you start a new project, specify the format, and plug in a PAL camcorder, then your project really ought to be PAL, not NTSC!
(Note that in the pics above, my Mac defaulted to putting a new movie in the 'Pictures' folder ..I would, of course, change that to the 'Movies' folder!)
(..All the above applies, too, to projects consisting of, say, photos imported from iPhoto, created without using any 'movie' footage from a camcorder..)
P.S: A movie originating as NTSC, but burned as a PAL DVD - or vice versa - will look dreadful. Be sure to maintain the same system (PAL or NTSC) through the whole process.

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