Posted by skibbet on 06/17/07 09:45

The ratio for PAL and NTSC is very different in the number of lines so
I copy PAL DVD into Movie Maker and Export as NTSC it is very time
consuming on slower computers but it works for me. I have yet to find
any convert programs that convert any format to another without some
quality loss or other unwanted results. So when I have formats other
than Avi for editing I use Quicktime Pro then export files or use
Movie Maker and save as to my computer. You can get the new Dazzle for
importing files into your computer and it reads everything for the
most part then you can export back out from your computer it is done
in real time so again time consuming. Hope that helps...

On Jun 14, 11:37 pm, "Den Murray" <n...@nul.nul> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> I'm in the US and I have a Cyberhome DVD player - it's region-free, but that
> is incidental to my question.
>
> 1) When I play a PAL DVD from the UK or Australia my DVD player reads the
> PAL encoded DVD but outputs an NTSC signal - to allow my TV to correctly
> display the picture. All is good except that the picture can be a little
> jerky if there is fast movement - I assume that this is part of the frame
> dropping that occurs during the conversion.
>
> 2) I also have an external video standards converter - a TenLab TR21 - that
> will convert a PAL signal to NTSC. If I play a PAL DVD and output PAL from
> the DVD and run it through the video standards converter and output an NTSC
> signal to the TV the picture is also fine - perhaps of marginally poorer
> quality than in (1) above, but not jerky.
>
> Can someone explain to me what is different between the two ways of getting
> an NTSC signal to the TV from the DVD and why the difference in jerkiness
> and clarity?
>
> Thanks!

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