Time Sensitive. Please Help. Region Free burning

verity5000 wrote on 3/7/2004, 12:49 PM

Hey guys,

Any help I could get would be greatly appreciated. I need to burn and mail a dvd to europe tomorrow to get my film in time for a festival deadline but they only accept region-2 (europe) or region free dvds. I have not been able to figure out how to burn region free or region 2 dvds. Please help me as I need to mail it out tomorrow.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

JSWTS wrote on 3/7/2004, 2:45 PM

Any disc created with DVD-A will be region free, so not to worry. You don't have an option with this app to add any region coding.

Jim

travel_addict wrote on 3/8/2004, 7:34 AM

So there is no worrys about it being NTSC over here and PAL over there?

Thanks
Paul

nolonemo wrote on 3/8/2004, 9:28 AM

"Region" is a different issue than NTSC or PAL, and refers only to the type of CSS encryption on the disk, encryption that DVDA can't put on, as the previous poster said. (DVD players sold in Europe will only decode region 2 encryption, while the players sold in the US will only encode region 1 encryption, but as I said, since every DVDA disk is "region-free" that's not an issue.) If the disk is to be played in Europe, you want to encode to PAL, which is one of the options in Vegas and/or DVDA.

RBartlett wrote on 3/8/2004, 9:54 AM

As you need to match your festival entry rules, encode it in PAL 720x576 25/50, optionally with AC3. However for Europe/PAL countries generally you only _might_ want to re-encode in PAL as this will guarantee colour, frame sync and fewer calls regarding alternative methods of hook-up between player and TV set.

However, discs created with "NTSC for worldwide playback" are legally available in PAL countries. Invariably the player supports such discs, and sometimes it converts on-the-fly by field removal (etc) and sometimes it kicks into NTSC mode. The crux being whether the TV and type of hook-up supports NTSC. But I'm making a mountain out of a mole-hill.

NTSC discs would be favoured by the videophile in PAL countries. It is better to get as close to the original as possible. However good the conversion is.

Check any PAL discs you make on your PC. That should give you a fair indication. Otherwise get yourself a cheap deck after you check it can play PAL/NTSC. Some set top DVD players have component and even VGA outputs that make this slightly more compatible with US TVs/monitors.

The reverse is seemingly less true. NTSC decks are somewhat less likely to play PAL, but again the videophile will probably ensure he has this somewhere on his wishlist.