PAL/NTSC DVD

Larry Dickman. · Post by **Larry Dickman.** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:43 am

I am trying to compile a DVD using material from different sources, ie. some of the clips are NTSC and some are PAL. These various clips are also different Data Rates (between 6500 kpbs and 9450 kpbs)......
When I compile all these clips on the timeline and edit them etc, I the go the the create video step, and this is where I encounter probs....... freezing, sync probs, pic quality etc.

Anyone tried this and had success?

Windows XP Home
SP 1
AMD Athlon XP 2600+
1.92 G
480 MB RAM
189 G HD

Post by **lancecarr** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:03 am

What you are trying to do is a pretty tall order for a $100 consumer editing program! To slap it all in the timeline and see how it flies is absolutely going to give you problems! However all may not be lost.
Is the final out put going to be PAL or NTSC?

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:00 am

For starters, PAL and NTSC have different frame sizes and frame rates, add square/rectangular pixels and differing sound formats into the fray, plus the different color generation of both standards and you will pretty quickly understand why there might be problems.

You may, just may, succeed if you settle for one TV standard and convert the clips of the other standard to that, i.e. PAL to NTSC or vice versa. Once these clips are all of the same standard and comply frame size and rate wise with each other, insert them on the time line and see how you go.

Larry Dickman. · Post by **Larry Dickman.** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 5:52 am

Thanks for the prompt replies.....

I know its a big ask

I realise the frame rate/ audio issues heinz and I tried converting the NTSC files to PAL, but with limited success ie noticable loss in pic quality.

I did have some success creating video_ts files with VS9 then creating a DVD with these files using DVD shrink...... still not happy though

Anyone able to recommend a editing suite that could cope with this task?