Rendering in PAL

Sneddy wrote on 4/10/2005, 11:05 AM

If I want to create a DVD that will play in a PAL desktop DVD player, should I render in PAL in Vegas and then again in DVD Arch? Sony tech support said that if I insert a NTSC .avi into DVD Arch and then have DVD Arch convert to PAL MPEG2 that it should work. I heard from a friend in England that the disk would not play. Any thoughts? Thanks, Bob K.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 4/10/2005, 12:42 PM

Render to PAL MPEG in Vegas, then author the DVD with PAL project settings. The tech support was right, except that you're going through two conversions, and losing quality, plus spending extra time, and you don't know what it will look like post encode due to the way the media displays.
Save time and headaches, just treat it like a PAL project all the way through from edit to final output. Converting an NTSC project to PAL is very easy in Vegas. Just set up a PAL project from your existing NTSC project, and reset the media to fit the aspect by using Pan/Crop. If you have Ultimate S, it does everything for you once you've set up the project parameters.

Sneddy wrote on 4/10/2005, 1:46 PM

Thank you for this response Douglas!! Bob K.