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[AWingfield]

I'm making a PAL DVD from source material in NTSC that I have either captured off TV or from my digital video camera. When I use the project wizard in TMPGenc to create a PAL DVD, the files I have captured with my Linx USB video capture device are recognized as non-interlaced whereas those from my DV camera are recognized as interlaced, bottom field first. Is the reason those videos captured by the Linx are recognized as non-interlaced because they were captured by the computer? I want to output this to a PAL DVD which will be displayed on TV, so how I make sure it encodes the MPG as interlaced? On the video stream settings, the Encode Mode: Non-interlaced is selected and greyed out. I can override that, but it says it will no longer be compatible as the PAL DVD template I was using. How do I make sure the output on the DVD will look right? I can't test it because I don't have a PAL DVD player and I'm sending this off to a friend in Europe.

Thanks,
Andrew

[flaninacupboard]

the quickest easiest and best method os to simply not convert it to PAL. all PAL players support NTSC as well, and the majority of our TV's support NTSC. so if your friends' TV supports NTSC they will watch in NTSC, if not their DVD player will transcode to PAL on the fly, with a hardware convertor.
i just wish more TV studios would use this approach, i get pis*ed off watching badly converted video on DVD, when there's just no need for it. it's what usually inspires me to buy region 1 discs, although then i can't get what i want anyway, in the UK i can go and buy friends series 8 from any shop and preorder series 9 on dvd, last time i looked on amazon america was only up to series three. oh well.....

[AWingfield]

Well, I did send him one in NTSC format but it was in black-and-white. He's using the Sony Playstation 2 to play back the DVD, plus I don't think his TV supports NTSC, because I checked when I was over there.

-Andrew

[flaninacupboard]

in that case he should be able to tell his PS2 that his TV is PAL only, and it will do the transcoding. having black and white means it's outputting NTSC and the TV doesn't support it. i don't have a PS2, so if anyone knows how to set it PAL only, please jump in.