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Chienworks wrote on 4/16/2006, 5:26 PM
Pretty much, yes. Vegas does a very good job converting. Make sure you set DVDA to PAL too.
rs170a wrote on 4/16/2006, 5:30 PM
You certainly can.
I've done this a few times now and not received any complaints.
Be prepared for a MUCH longer render (approx 10X as I recall).

Before you do that though, ask them if they have a multi-format TV & DVD player. If so, just send them an NTSC disc.
Apparently the equipment in most PAL countries is now dual standard capable.
Sure wish we could convince manufacturers to start selling this gear in Canada and the USA. After all, NTSC isn't the only video standard in the world :-)

Mike
douglas_clark wrote on 4/16/2006, 9:46 PM
Yes, just send your NTSC DVD to Europe. Most DVD players here will read it fine. Apparently the reverse is not true (USA DVD players cannot play PAL DVDs?)

Douglas
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Laurence wrote on 4/17/2006, 7:42 AM
PAL conversion is another arguement for shooting HDV as 1080 60i footage converts to SD PAL extremely well: no colorspace difference or lost resolution. Still a little stutter on quick pans and zooms, but way better overall. If you render SD PAL from a 1080 60i project rather than converting a rendered piece, you'll get smoother text and photo animations.
corug7 wrote on 4/17/2006, 11:00 AM
"USA DVD players cannot play PAL DVDs?"

Not the name brands, but most of the cheap chinese players (cyberhome, lite-on, etc) playback about everything. Pretty sad when my $30 player plays back about 5 times more media than my brand new $400 Panasonic HDD/DVD recorder.
Laurence wrote on 4/17/2006, 12:10 PM
It's got way better error correction too I'll bet. I recently took a Ty Yuden burned DVD to a friend's house to view at a party in his wonderul projection "movie theater". It wouldn't play there. Not only that it wouldn't play in the living room setup either. Both these setups had high end name brand DVD players. We ended up bringing a crowd of people into the kids play room where a much less expensive DVD player played it back perfectly. In the world of DVD players, you get the inverse of what you pay for it seems!