Selfmade DVD - Pal/NTSC problems ?

[drainer@mpinet.net]

You can burn it set to NTSC, but I don't know if it will play correctly
because the DV is in PAL, correct? You should try it anyway, it could
possibly work. I think that you may also be able to convert it on a PC, at
least it lets you do that with MPEG2 -- you can burn and original file in
PAL or NTSC.

 PAL won't work in Japan (because the player won't be able to read it),
unless, like Miles suggested, one were to use a computer to play it.

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Koerber" <svenkoerber at gmx.de>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 11, 2004 7:06 AM
Subject: Selfmade DVD - Pal/NTSC problems ?


Dear all,

excuse me for yet another technical question ...

I want to burn two films we made by ourselves on DVD and send it to Japan. I
thought there wouldn't be problems with the German TV-standard "Pal" and the
Japanese "NTSC" as You have it with video-cassettes, because DVD is digital.
The film itself is filmed with Digital Video ("DV") and we burn it on a
DVD-R (or maybe DVD+R ?). Now our cameraman and cutter said, there could be
problems with the two standards.

I know that the country code (= the country-specific DVD-code which should
hinder to view a foreign DVD on one's own DVD-player) in Japan and Germany
is the same. But does anybody know if there could be problems with a
self-burned DVD with Pal/NTSC ?
(And does anybody know of other problems which could occur by viewing a
European selfmade DVD in Japan ?)

Thank You in advance :-)

Best wishes,

Sven Koerber