SECAM D/K

Maverick wrote on 9/17/2012, 5:38 AM
The holiday footage has been shot on my Sony PJ260VE at 1920x1080 50p.

For my own use I will render as Sony AVCHD as per my other thread but my wife's family and friends here in Ukraine want copies.

For those with PCs I can give the same as for me or even reduce to Sony XDCAM EX 1280x720 50p for those with lower specs machines.

But there are still some who only have DVDs and I know nothing about SECAM the system they use here. Is it even possible in Vegas/DVDA to author a disc for them?

Cheers.

Edit: A little further digging in this forum I found a thread from 2006 that said SECFAM is a PAL variant and I could just render to a PAL DVD - Source is PAL, too.

Is is really as simple as that?

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rs170a wrote on 9/17/2012, 7:58 AM
Is is really as simple as that?

According to the replies in the NTSC to PAL thread, yes it is.

Mike
Maverick wrote on 9/17/2012, 8:08 AM
Yes, saw that thread, too.

I'll burn a disc or two while I'm still here as we'll be visiting one of the friends with a DVD player on Friday.

Hopefully all will go well.

Cheers.
Maverick wrote on 9/20/2012, 10:16 AM
Currently rendering for DVDA using MainConcept mpeg2 Widescreen video stream at 720x576 Upper field first, 16:9, project settings to best and Smart rendering is off for all events.

Remember the source was 1920x1080 50p.

I noticed that there were small verticalblack bars each side of the preview window during rendering... is this normal?

Also, there were jagged lines which were exrtremly noticable and just as noticable when viewing the final render in VCL player. Should I try rendering to progressive for DVD or have I missed something?

Cheers.

Edit: When I import the rendered mpeg2 file to DVDA I still get the verticsl black bars each side.

I did a test render with progressive set rather than Upper field first and the video did not show on the DVDA timeline.

Edit2: Oops.It was always set to Lower field first except when I did a Progressive render.

Edit3: Black bars solved by setting 'Stretch video to match output frame size'