PAL Region-DVD help

[rajking86]

Hello. I just got through editing a video which was captured from my PAL camcorder. I'm in Singapore for the next few weeks and this all is taking place here in Singapore- a PAL country.
I exported the edited video file as a DV file to retain the best quality and it's there on my desktop now as an AVI file. The quality is perfect and all and I burnt it to DVD and it plays perfectly all over singapore on all sorts of DVD players.

I didn't author the DVD to any specific region in my video editor or anything but...will I experience problems if I take the DVD back to America, where I live?

Are there such things as PAL and NTSC AVI files? I burnt the AVI file straight on DVD, which makes it a MPEG, If I'm correct...and the DVD SHOULD be Region free, as it never asked for any regional options etc.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

Yes, the DVD is region free (so it can be played on any DVD player regardless of geographical location), but I'm pretty certain that the video is PAL. To play this DVD, the player must be able to play PAL format video. From what I've read here, most NTSC DVD players does't do that.
Since most (but not all) PAL equipment also handles NTSC material, it could still be an NTSC DVD you have authored. The difference between NTSC and PAL is the frame rate and resolution of the video.

/Mats

[guns1inger]

Both the DV avi and the DVD are PAL format. They will have PAL resolution, PAL framerate, and be tagged as PAL. Unless you explicity output an NTSC format file from your editor. The easiest way to tell would be to look at the properties of the DV avi file. If they have a framerate of 25 fps, you have a PAL file (which you would expect, coming from a PAL camcorder).

What did you burn it with ? Simply burning an avi to a DVD disc does not make it mpeg-2. There needs to be a conversion done somewhere along the line.

[rajking86]

I used Sonic MyDVD to burn the AVI to DVD.

There was a transcoding process during the whole deal, which I believe is taking the AVI and making it into MPEG 2(DVD).

I want NTSC DVD players, well at least most of em, to play my DVD.

[mats.hogberg]

Then you have to encode to NTSC spec mpeg and author it as NTSC DVD. But then, the AVI has to be in NTSC format if you're not hot on format conversions.
As I said, most PAL equipment plays NTSC material, so it should work fine (but not 100%) in PAL country too.

/Mats

[rajking86]

I see.

I'm thinking about doing the trick that makes the dvd player read your dvd as if it were NTSC/PAL, vice-versa.

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


What do you guys think?