Pal DVD

[jimstamos]

can someone tell me what settings to put in to do a pal dvd?
thx

[John Lewis]

If you are refering to project settings its 720×576 50i

[CentralEurope]

> settings its 720×576 50i .....make sure > with Field Order: Upper Field first

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/non_linear_video_equipment.html

http://www.videoproductions.com.au/html/edius-downscale.html

[John Hooper]

If your project is already in NTSC, but you want to send it to a PAL area, I would not worry about changing the project. Most modern PAL DVD players will play NTSC DVDs.

When burning the DVD, just make sure it is not set to a particular Region.

If you want to be 100% sure that it will play in a PAL DVD player, then follow the advice given in the previous posts.

[John Hooper]

Home burned DVDs can't be region protected.
You have to use replication plant to do region protected DVDs.

Andrew,

I assume your post was in reply to mine. Jim doesn't mention how he will make the DVD. If he wants to only make a few DVDs himself then you are correct about not having region protection from Edius etc. If however he was planning to use a replication house then he might have to consider the destination area for the PAL or NTSC DVDs and whether a region setting would give any issues.

[jimstamos]

im shooting hd, editing in ntsc timeline, making 2 regular dvds and they want 2 pal dvds

[jimstamos]

720×576 50i is SD, shouldnt i be doing 1920x1080 50i

[John Hooper]

DVDs are SD. Do you mean you will be making Blu-ray discs?

If you do mean DVD, then you will have to down convert from HD to SD

Anton has the workflow method on his website.

[antonsvideo]

if your current project is NTSC 1920x1080, export timeline to HQ Fine

then start a new 720zx576 50i project with 2 audio channels and upper field first and lanczos3 enabled and add your 1920x1080 file, then create the DVD