Question on Different TV system

[Souwalker]

I live in Sydney (PAL) and I have family in the US (NTSC). I visited them a month ago and am in the process of making a slideshow of digital pictures taken over there and adding short video clips taken from the digital camera on DVD using Ulead's DVD PictureShow v2.

Do I have to worry about what tv system I do it on?

Thanks

[Craig Tucker]

unfortunately yes, a lot of north american hardware cannot display a pal signal correctly

[Souwalker]

Thanks Craig
So my option is to do the one project but outputing one on PAL (for myself) and another NTSC via the preference option?

Rgds
Patrick

[Craig Tucker]

That would be advisable, yes.

[Souwalker]

Many Thanks Craig,

Oh, while I still have you...

Not sure if you're familiar with Ulead's dvd pictureshow, but the short videos taken by my digital camera are in avi format. Using Pictureshow, will the program auto convert the avi to mpg2 if burn to dvd?

Thanks Again.

Rgds
Patrick

[Craig Tucker]

Many Thanks Craig,

Oh, while I still have you...

Not sure if you're familiar with Ulead's dvd pictureshow, but the short videos taken by my digital camera are in avi format. Using Pictureshow, will the program auto convert the avi to mpg2 if burn to dvd?

Thanks Again.

Rgds
Patrick

I believe that software does have an mpeg2 encoder so yes that shouldl work. Cant comment of the quality of the encoder as I have never used this software. I generally use TMPGEnc for my mpeg encoding

[Souwalker]

Many Thanks

Will try and see how quality is.

Thanks Again Craig

Rgds
pat

[sacajaweeda]

Doesn't most PAL hardware play NTSC also? If yours does, you may be able to get away doing just the one in NTSC.

[Souwalker]

Doesn't most PAL hardware play NTSC also? If yours does, you may be able to get away doing just the one in NTSC.

Thanks for reminding me. All my home dvd player and TV plays ntsc dvds too. My players are modified and my TV's are all multi system!! So..yes, I will do in NTSC.

Thanks Again.

Pat

[energy80s]

The only problem is that the NTSC disc will be poorer quality than the PAL one due to lower resolution (you will loose 1/5 of your picture), so making two seperate discs might be a better bet.

[Souwalker]

The only problem is that the NTSC disc will be poorer quality than the PAL one due to lower resolution (you will loose 1/5 of your picture), so making two seperate discs might be a better bet.

Would the digital pictures loose resolution as well? I thought it would just be the video.

Rgds
Pat

[energy80s]

Well, you would be encoding your stills as video anyway, so yes, there will be a deteriation in picture quality between PAL and NTSC.