PAL to NTSC . .

Grazie wrote on 1/17/2004, 4:44 AM
Okay Chums . . I need to get a PAL format Stateside... to play. Option one would be to do a WMV . . easy. The next thing is VHS. Well I can do the NTSC but how do I then "record" a VHS NTSC tape? Hmmm....

Grazie

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farss wrote on 1/17/2004, 5:25 AM
Get a dual standard VHS recorder!
Be very careful though just about every PAL machine says it's NTSC compatible. Just what they really feed out can be a variety of mashed up video standards. Mostly they just shift the color burst so the PAL TVs can lock onto it. And they usually will not record NTSC. My SVHS seems to do it right, on playback you can get genuine NTSC out of it or the "PAL->NTSC" trick.

Also PAL cameras will not pass through NTSC, you'll need something like an ADVC-100.

Your other option is DVD, done heaps of NTSC DVDs and all played just fine, well no ones come back to complain.
Grazie wrote on 1/17/2004, 6:43 AM
farss, thank you. I like the idea of the DVD. Now, as a supplementary question, will I encounter any problems in creating a DVD here in the UK - Regions and all that - and having this played in the States?

I don't have access to the type of equip for NTSC. I do have an Canopus ACEDVio card setup within my pc. - I use this all the time with DV for PAL and the like . . .

Grazie

Chienworks wrote on 1/17/2004, 7:11 AM
I might be mistaken, but i believe the region codes on DVDs are a commercial thingie that is used to discourage distributing DVDs in other parts of the world. Your home grown DVD will be region free.
Grazie wrote on 1/17/2004, 7:14 AM
Thanks Kelly . . sorry to ask what now appears as a bit of "obvious" common sense . . just wanted to be sure. I've also thought about doing a WMV cd for them to play on their pc - yeah? . . .

Cheers . .

Grazie
PAW wrote on 1/17/2004, 7:15 AM

The DVD's you burn with DVDA on say DVD+RW will be region free and "should" play anywhere.

Have not sent one stateside myself but that is supposed to be the case.

Regards, Paul
filmy wrote on 1/17/2004, 1:32 PM
Another option that I have mentioned before - Just do a PAL project and burn a PAL DVD *if* whoever you are sending it to here in the states has a DVD player such as the Apex AD1500. The region encoding is not something most people add onto self burned DVD's. I watch PAL DVD's from Sweden all the time with no issues. The only thing thay may be an issue is the format of the DVD as in DVD+ or DVD- some players play all, some play one but not the other.

Another option is to just burn the material onto CD or DVD as a 'raw' MPEG2 file for import onto the PC, which I am guesisng is the final resting place because you mentioned WMV format. PC's don't care about NTSC or PAL.