24frames DVD for USA and Europe.

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Voytek_Stitko

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Guys,

I know that if you want to watch the movie in Europe you must have a PAL (25 frames) version, and in USA NTSC (30 frames) but what if the movie was shot in 24 frames per second....

Let's say I shoot 24p (pan dvx100a) and burn a dvd.
Can people in Europe and USA watch this dvd (24frames?)

Thanks for clearing this issue,
Voytek
 
Re: 24frames DVD for USA and Europe.

Take solace in the fact that theatrical films are shot at 24fps. All of these films can be made into a PAL or NTSC dvd without issue. These days, any individual can do this with about any NLE and DVD authoring progam.

Also, depending on what mode you shoot in, the DVX would playback on a regular television without issue (on an NTSC monitor if you have the NTSC version, and on a PAL monitor if you have the PAL version). This is due to the DVX's in-camera pulldown.
 
Re: 24frames DVD for USA and Europe.

But wait, are you talking about using the same DVD in both regions, as in burning a single 24P dvd and having it work in both formats?

If so, I don't think that would work...as far as I know, this works great for an NTSC player, but the PAL version would need to have the speed changed to match 25fps and the audio pitch properly modified. So you'd need two different DVD's, you couldn't use the exact same one...unless PAL dvd players can take 24P signals and convert them to 25P internally...
 
Re: 24frames DVD for USA and Europe.

Right, like I said, you must make a PAL or NTSC DVD for it to be playable in each players for each standard (unless you have a multi-standard DVD player and television).
 
Re: 24frames DVD for USA and Europe.

My bad, I thought you meant that you could do a 24fps DVD, and that same dvd could be played in both standards...from native 24P
 
Re: 24frames DVD for USA and Europe.

With multiple titlesets, you should be able to put a NTSC and a PAL version of your project on the same DVD. And there's no 24 frames DVD-standard for PAL DVD video (MPEG2), 24 frames in MPEG2 is NTSC only, as far as I know.
 
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