PAL conversion questions

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Well, this is my first venture into the PAL realm so I hope you PAL smarties can guide me....

I have a FINISHED wedding made into MPEG (and then made into a DVD - NTSC format). Then my computer crashed, burned, badly. The wedding edit in Edius is gone BUT the MPEG I made of the whole wedding is intact and well (saved on another system).

I know I CAN do this - but have no idea HOW:

How do I make this MPEG into a PAL disc? I use ENCORE to make all my finished DVDs. Do I encode in Edius to PAL and bring it into Encore? How?

ANY help appreciated! TYTYTYTYTYTY

[antonsvideo]

why do you want to make it PAL?

all PAL DVD players can play NTSC, the PAL world is advanced compared to NTSC world :)

[swsw1550]

You got it Anton.

Steve

[Shakeel]

In PAL world; NTSC = Never Twice Same Color :) :) :)

[Mr Bill]

I agree with Anton, every PAL player plays NTSC. So why bother?

But if you really want/need to make a PAL DVD,
a very simple way is to capture it with Edius through 'Disc Capture',
place it on the timeline and encode a PAL mpg for Encore.

Another way is to rip the DVD using a program like smart-ripper.
You will end up with a .m2v video file & either a .wav audio file, .mpg audio file, or an .ac3 audio file.
Depends on how you encoded it in the 1st place.

Then you need to mux those files together and let an encoder take over.
Procoder or TMPGEnc will do a great job.

;)


I thought NTSC = Never The Same Colour :o)

[antonsvideo]

at least in Australia, all players for the last 10 years play NTSC, even if the TV is not NTSC compatible (must be very old), the player can play NTSC and output PAL if needed

[SoundFreak]

all players for the last 10 years play NTSC

Even the low end China made players where fast to catch up, maybe Andrew is referring to brands like Philips (I used to work in R&D, hard to think like them !), they always think they have a better solution but are not that smart & compatible :)