Converting to PAL

mrbean wrote on 6/11/2004, 3:48 PM

How do you render a DVD for PAL formatting? I redid all of my files in PAL format, but I can only render the Video part of the DVD, no Audio.....how do I render the audio portion?...I did this same DVD in NTSC with no problem....and without render each seperately

bean

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Mahesh wrote on 6/12/2004, 1:45 AM

I do not know about DVDA because I have not got to grips with it yet. You can use Vefgas to render the file as PAL stream before bringing it in to DVDA. Again, I have not tried tried the Main Concept encoder to do this but I know that Vegas will render NTSC to PAL.
So if I was doing it, I would Render AS PAL DV first, then Save As MPEG2 PAL and then bring the file in to DVDA.
Hope that helps.

Regards

Mahesh wrote on 6/12/2004, 9:13 AM

p.s. Most of recent PAL DVD players will handle NTSC.

kameronj wrote on 6/13/2004, 9:39 PM

First...I always try to start with a Sport. Then....move on to Chum. After that.....then I usually can move on up to Buddy. After being at Buddy for a spell, then we can move on to Homie. After that it gets converted to Pal...then, after successful lending of (and paying back) of money, it's Friend.

If it's a member of the opposite sex....we can move on to other titles...but this is not the forum for describing those.

mbryant wrote on 6/14/2004, 1:56 AM

In DVD-A, you can simply change the project properies to PAL and have DVD-A recompress the video.

For the audio: Technically, in PAL land .ac3 isn't required to be supported, but in general it is. If you really want to be safe you would have to convert the audio to uncompressed PCM. But I'd just stick with the ac3 (same audio as for your NTSC version). PAL supports mpeg layer 2 audio as standard, but DVD-A doesn't support this.

Alternatively, you can do the endocding in Vegas. I haven't done a comparison yet of the quality of two methods.

Mark

mrbean wrote on 6/14/2004, 8:16 AM

The problem is, this is a corporate video with 4 different movies/clips on it so I guess the problem is to figure out how to encode the audio for each part separately and then when buring the DVD knowing which audio goes with which video.......