Help! - ntsc and secam versions of chapter authored pal dvds

[devdev]

hi

i have a little problem that im hoping some of you more experienced might be able to assist me with!:

i have created a two pal dvds most of which my client wants in pal format.

the first was a movie cut into chapters using tmpg enc and the dvd authoring programme.

the second was a slideshow - also with chapters created with some slideshow software called arcsoft.

the customer has asked me for an additional 1 x ntsc copy (for someone in canada) and 1 x secam (for someone in france) copy of each.

is there a way of acheiving this using say tmpgenc without losing all of my hours of chapter work??

desperately hoping so!

cheers

[jman98]

Good news for the copy for France - there is no such thing as SECAM in DVD, so your PAL copy will work perfectly!

Bad news for the copy for Canada - you will have to re-do everything to get it into NTSC. There are tricks you can do with pulldown that might or not keep you from having to re-do it all, but if someone is paying, you shouldn't do that. The odds of it not working are quite high and you'll like a chump if you try this and it fails. The only sure way for it to work is to re-do it in NTSC.

[devdev]

brilliant news re france - thank you! i feel so happy!

actually, i feel bad and 'chumpy' since client has already paid.

when you say re do everything in ntsc, does that mean re-encoding original files and then re-creating chapters again then?

also - when you say that the odds of it not working are quite high in canada do you mean a pal copy not playing in canada? would the same apply in reverse ie an ntsc version would be unlikely to play in the the uk?

[guns1inger]

The odds of an NTSC disc playing in the UK are probably better than 85%. The odds of a PAL disc playing in Canada or the US are probably closer to 35%, but slowly rising.

Which ever way you convert you are in for a re-author. If you you convert to 29.970 fps then you will have to change the chapter points because the framerate is differnt