PAL or NTSC for Germany and Australia

ErikS wrote on 11/17/2012, 8:56 AM

Hello,
I am making a wedding DVD for a client that will be sending DVD's to family germany and Australia. I live in the US and the wedding was filmed here as well on NTSC equipment. I have NO experiance with PAL or other countries DVD players. The original project was made in NTSC.
Should I change the project format to PAL in DVD architect and burn the discs that way, to be sent to the aforementioned countries, or does PAL vs NTSC a moot point with todays technology?

Thanks for any insight people can provide.
Erik Stanbridge

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Kimberly wrote on 11/17/2012, 10:58 AM

You can let DVD-A do the encoding from NTSC to PAL. The output works okay. It takes a long time to render in DVD-A, and some people say that DVD-A is not the best place to perform rendering of any kind.

I suggest rendering a version in NTSC and PAL from Vegas, then make your DVD accordingly in DVD-A. Your end product quality may be better that way.

Regards,

Kimberly

diverG wrote on 11/17/2012, 3:54 PM

In the UK NTSC DVD's play in normal domestic DVD players attached to a TV.

It is highly likely that this also applies to Germany & Australia. The problem lies in trying to play PAL DVD's in the USA & maybe other NTSC regions.

It is also possible that changing from NTSC to PAL may reduce the final quality.

PeterDuke wrote on 11/17/2012, 4:04 PM

I used to have a TV that would not sync to 30 fps but that was about 10 years ago. I think you would be quite safe distributing NTSC DVDs in Australia now. My guess is that the same would apply in Germany.

I understand that the reverse is not true: most US equipment won't play PAL.

ErikS wrote on 11/17/2012, 7:24 PM

Thanks for all the help. I think I am going to go with the NTSC route and hope that it works, especially considering the loss in video quality.

musicvid10 wrote on 11/17/2012, 8:38 PM

NTSC should play almost anywhere. PAL probably won't play in the US or Japan.