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Posted by Teeafit on 11/11/06 17:51
This is an old chestnut, I know, but I'm pretty desperate to get a
definitive answer from those of you reading this in N.America or Japan.
I have a PAL DVD project completed, and ready for replication. As
potential sales are worldwide, I thought it best to offer both PAL and
NTSC versions. I've had a standards conversion of the core material
done by a facilities house in London, ready to be re-authored for DVD,
but I'm not very happy with it. Viewing it back on a player/monitor
combination that can display NTSC, not only do any crawling graphics
'judder' something shocking (not totally unexpected, but not as bad as
this) but any horizontal lines in the footage 'shimmer' all the time.
I could (reluctantly) re-make the graphics sequences as part of a new
NTSC project on Avid 7, but don't think that my clients will be able to
stand 2+ hours of 'shimmer'.
I'd complain about the standards conversion, and see if it could be
improved, but it's all taking time, and I've promised distribution
before Christmas. A colleague of mine INSISTS that he's successfully
sold PAL DVDs to America, and no-one's ever complained about them not
being viewable.
Certainly only offering PAL worldwide would make my life a lot easier,
and the project more profitable... but LESS profitable if I keep having
to take back discs and refund money to angry customers in Vermont,
Vancouver and Kyoto (couldn't think of anywhere in Japan beginning with
'V'!)
Comments welcome, please.
GRAEME ALDOUS, Teeafit Sound & Vision, Yorkshire
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