Do PAL DVD's work in USA or is Pal 2 NTSC needed ?

[beammeup]

Hi.

I live in Australia, so most of my video stuff is PAL

I've been asked to create about 10 copies of a wedding DVD from a PAL video camera. That's easy !

The client wants 5 copies for reletives in Australia ( PAL ) and 5 copies for US relatives ( NTSC )

Not being in the USA to test things out, can somebody please say Does a PAL crerated DVD work fine in a US DVD player.

Is the quality just as good or should I do a few NTSC copies especially for the US people.

NEXT question : If I have to convert to NTSC, at what point should I do it in the process ?

I capture with Vegas from a mini DV cam. -- Render to AVI, then convert to MPG2 with TMPGENC.

Should I convert the capture footgae to a NTSC AVI, before using TMPGENC, or will TMPGENC do a better job ?


Any thoughts would be appreciated

Cheers
Scott

[b_n83]

It really depends on the DVD player if it can play PAL discs in NTSC land, or not. Several new DVD players come with an in-built PAL to NTSC and NTSC to PAL converter. However, if you are unsure about what kind of a DVD player, you client has, it will be safe to send them DVDs that have first been converted to NTSC. I haven't really ever done this, but I found some guides here:
http://www.geocities.com/xesdeeni2001/StandardsConversion/index.html (Look for section 6)

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=221928

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/166237.php

Hope this helps!

[FulciLives]

In the USA are televisions can only do NTSC.

So you need a DVD player that can convert PAL to NTSC and there are models in the USA that do this but most "name brands" do not.

It is NOT the norm.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[hech54]

If you hadn't said the word "client" I would have said just ship them to the U.S. with a note explaining PAL and NTSC......and how PC's can play either one as long as they are region free...

[vitualis]

Yes, the sad state of affairs still continues.

In "PAL-land", the vast majority of DVD players can convert between PAL and NTSC, and even if they can't, the vast majority of TVs can play both anyway.

Regards.

[pete2828]

I will help you out.. I will burn the dvd sampler in PAL to DVDRW, I live in the US and I will post results

[vitualis]

If you have "clients" that are in the US (from that I assume, fee paying people who expect that the disc will work with no tinkering), then you will definitely have to convert to NTSC.

As others have told you, US equipment is NTSC-centric and multisystems equipment is not the norm.

You can search this site for some advanced techniques in converting from PAL to NTSC. The doom9.org forums are also a fantastic place to look for advanced help.

Best regards.

[pete2828]

the result of the PAL DVD sampler were not playable (error "NOT NTSC") on the standalone toshiba SD-3800 which reads any burn DVD media with no problems. It does anything a dvd player should do except read.. Dvixs, mpeg4, WMV. And it doesn't accept mpeg audio. So you have Video to convert to NTSC and audio to AC3 or PCM.

Now can you help me out,,, can download and burn the NTSC sampler on DVDRW and tell if it will play on Pal systems?? Please?