NTSC to PAL...Did I Do This Right?

beatnik wrote on 5/8/2003, 9:23 PM

I rendered a video in Vegas with (DVD PAL), Opened up DVD-A and inserted
the video, when I went into optimize the video, in the "video" column it said the video
was NTSC, well I changed it to PAL and burned the disc.

I played it in the set top DVD player not expecting to see anything on the tv, well not
only did I see the video it actually looked good, not GREAT but good. It DID look like it was 25 fps? I thought that a PAL video cannot play in a NTSC tv? Did I create a PAL
DVD or didn't I? I need to make some DVD's for Greece. Can someone tell me if I am
doing this right!

Thanks in advance,

Alex

Comments

farss wrote on 5/9/2003, 6:50 AM

I can't see why not.
AS far as I know the only difference between a PAL and NTSC DVD would be the frame rate, you can actually fit a bit more on a PAL DVD than a NTSC one.
Where it gets a bit more comlicated is when the DVD player encodes it as a composite signal to go out to the TV, the color burst is different. Probably wats happening is the DVD player is happily playing out the DVD at 25fps but with an NTSC color burts. Your TV is happy with this, most of them today are pretty easy going.

Here in PAL land everything just about will play or show NTSC, The frame rate isn't converted as thats a difficult trick but by changing the burst and relying on the TV to handle the frame rate it works.