PAL to NTSC - how easy!

PeterWright wrote on 7/4/2005, 9:34 PM

A client wanted a copy of a recently produced DVD to take to Miami. As I'd heard that not all NTSC players will also play PAL I though I'd better give her an NTSC version.

Open the PAL project - Save as XXXNTSC Version - Change Project properties to NTSV video - Prepare and burn - leave DVDA to it and it's done. Brilliant.

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bStro wrote on 7/5/2005, 6:30 AM

Easy, yes, but how did it look? Though I suppose a PAL->NTSC conversion would look a lot better than an NTSC->PAL conversion.

How long did it take? And were the files in the project MPEG2 or AVI?

Rob

PeterWright wrote on 7/5/2005, 10:46 PM

It looked fine Rob - some text titles were a little "fizzy" but the video footage itself converted extremely well.

The original files were already MPEG2. Duration was 17 min and it took about 35 minutes to re-render. (Dual AMD 2000+, 2Gb ram)