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Posted by Toby on 11/12/06 12:03
"Teeafit" <teeafit@teeafit.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1163267497.438333.172870@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
> 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'!)
There are no Japanese towns that begin with "V"--it isn't in the Japanese
syllabary.
It's too bad you are going from PAL to NTSC, since the conversion from NTSC
to PAL is much easier. I can tell you that if you expect to sell DVDs in
Japan they had better be NTSC. I work for a European broadcaster so I do get
PAL->NTSC stuff sometimes, and even when it is done with high-quality
equipment the crawling graphics look awful. You shouldn't be seeing shimmer,
though; any decent standards conversion these days looks pretty good on most
stuff--unless it's pans, where high quality motion interpolation at least
makes them acceptable. Sounds to me like you need to reconvert at a
different place.
I just put a PAL DVD in my Sony player and it wouldn't play....you are not
going to want a lot of that.
Toby
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