Output to PAL?

[Aloke Prasad]

I have all my DV tapes recorded in US. The edited outputs from MM2 are in
DV-AVI(NTSC) format. The DVD's created using Roxio DVD-Maker play fine on
my set-top player here.

I would like to send some of these to my parents in India, which uses the
PAL system. What are my options?

There is no DV-AVI(PAL) option in MM2.

Will I have to depend on the capabilities of the DVD authoring program to
create PAL DVD's?

Will VCD be easier (they don't care about NTSC/PAL, right?)

I looked all over PapaJohn's site bit could not find any info on NTSC->PAL
issues. Is there a way to search that site?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Aloke,

The Setup > Options in MM2 include your choice of PAL versus NTSC. If you
choose PAL, then the saving choices will include DV-AVI (PAL)

PapaJohn

 

[Aloke Prasad]

Thanks.

So, I can keep MM2 in NTSC most of the time, including capture and editing,
and switch to PAL just before outputting the final DV-AVI file?

Will the file created this way be distorted (because of the different aspect
ratio) or speeded-up (because of the different frame rate)?

PS: Please add a way to search your site..

 

[Rye]

-----Original Message-----

Will VCD be easier (they don't care about NTSC/PAL, right?)

Do you have information that VCD doesn't care? I am under
the impression that PAL does care so I have been
neglecting to send a VCD because I don't know if it can
play on PAL equipment. Nor do I know if I can
successfully create a PAL VCD since I can't test it. Have
you sent VCD's to your parents before that were created
from NTSC? If so, did they play ok?

Thanks,
Rye

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Yes, switch just before saving and you'll get the PAL option. The file won't
be distorted; it'll just have the properties of a PAL movie. But it's easy
enough to test it... I don't usually work or save in PAL so maybe there's
something I don't know about it.

On the searching, I've thought about it a bit but I'm not ready to implement
something like that. The site isn't meant to cover the basics of setting up
and using Movie Maker, so a good search feature won't find it. Online
tutorials and books are the best resources for such info.

PapaJohn

 

[Aloke Prasad]

I'm just getting started with all this DVD/VCD stuff.. I have sent actual
VHS tapes to India before, after converting my movies to PAL on a
multi-system VCR.

I'm not sure that VCD is indifferent to NTSC/PAL settings.

Roxio DVD-Builder has settings for PAL vs NTSC and it also lets me choose
whether I am burning DVD or VCD. So, I'm assuming that if I pick PAL and
VCD, the program will work correctly and produce a good PAL DVD or VCD. I
have no way of verifying this either..

 

[Guest]

Ok, thanks, I guess I'll just have to go for broke and see
what happens.

Thanks,
Rye

 

[Janos]

Select the TOOLS\OPTION\ADVANCED menu. Here set the
video format to PAL. Now save your project and among the
OTHER SETTINGS you will find DV-AVI(PAL) option.
Janos

 

[Bryn Ford]

test

Do you have information that VCD doesn't care? I am under
the impression that PAL does care so I have been
neglecting to send a VCD because I don't know if it can
play on PAL equipment. Nor do I know if I can
successfully create a PAL VCD since I can't test it. Have
you sent VCD's to your parents before that were created
from NTSC? If so, did they play ok?

Thanks,
Rye