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Posted by DanR on 11/11/06 18:12
Teeafit wrote:
> 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
PAL DVDs will play on a small minority of U.S. DVD players. (Chinese Made)
Even then the PAL to NTSC conversion is not great. Especially noticeable
with supered graphics. Text keys can look pretty bad.
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