Still confused: Pal to NTSC

alfredsvideo wrote on 2/18/2004, 1:20 PM
Still confused over the PAL v NTSC lark. I have recorded footage on a PAL camera and have used all PAL settings when editing in Vegas. If I then render, using a DVD Architect NTSC video stream template and also use the NTSC settings when I take it into Archtect, will it play on a North American DVD player? If the answer is "Yes", then what about the DVD Architect 24p NTSC video stream template? Which template would be better to use?

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farss wrote on 2/18/2004, 1:48 PM
YES!
Vegas will serve it up as NTSC to the mpeg encoder and all will be well.

Going down the 24p path could be much trickier unless you've shot 24p in the first place. First you have to convert from 50i to 25p and then slow down to 24p. The Vegas white paper on 24p tells how to do that on about the last page.

In your case though I'd just resnder to NTSC mpeg-2 using the DVDA NTSC template, reder audio as either PCM or AC3, there will not be a speed difference to deal with.

Hmm, amazing how well it work really!

But actually it makes perfect sense, the audio is still the same length, it's not the same as running a projector faster because in the conversion Vegas will add extra fields so the video runs at the same speed and has the same run time.
PeterWright wrote on 2/18/2004, 4:37 PM
- and make sure your DVDA project properties are set to NTSC, or it will render it back to PAL!