dvx owner with no clue

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willdvx

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i am a very proud but risky owner of a dvx100, the reason i say risky is that my dvx is NTSC and live in the UK PAL land. i love to make short films with my premiere pro 7.0 and after efx 6.0, i have now learnt that in order to get the full benefit's from my dvx i will have to get pro 1.5 with 25p project mode, is this true and what will be happening to my footage if i carry on using 7.0?

the reason i took the risk with the dvx ntsc is that once i have burnt my footage to dvd it seems to work ok in a multi-region dvd player. what problems will i encounter having a NTSC dvx in PAL land?

i would be so greatful 4 any help
many thanks
 
As I am not in PAL, take this with a grain of salt. But from what I've read on various forums, and hardware reviews, you should be fine. The DVD players will read and play the NTSC DVD's. The problem comes the other way, when people try and play PAL in NTSC DVD players. But I have not had to try this as all my work is NTSC.

Anyway, you should not have to change editing programs to work with you footage. They should be able to take just about any format you throw at it. (Unless you are using a free, or inexpensive editing program). So if you wanted to change to 25p you could either: 1. Get a 25p DVX, or 2. There are various programs that will do format conversions for you, which you can use to change 24p to 25p. (I believe they are MB & Natress).

Hope this helps. As I said before I do not work in PAL, so I have not tested this, but this is what I gather from those who do.
 
Actually waltind the problem is a little bigger than you explained. First we will go with the camera. An NTSC camera in a PAL local is not a good idea. FIrst, it samples at a lower resolution, and second after a conversion to PAL your resolution and overall product is going to suffer another loss.
Second, premiere pro 7 or 1 has limited ability with 24p material as does premiere pro 1.5, but they both have different problems. HOwever, with 25p there is no problem at all. So here is my advice, get rid of your NTSC camera, trade it for a PAL. YOu are just looking at lots of headaches and problems, not only with distrobution (not all PAL DVD players will play NTSC DVD's) but with editing and resotluion loss. It's just not worth it.
 
Sharky,

Well there you have it. Thanks for the added info. As I had mentioned, I do not, nor have I worked in PAL. I was only stating what I have gathered from reading from other forums and hardware reviews.

It does make a lot more sense to be using the same capture format as the delivery format. (NTSC & NTSC / PAL & PAL)
 
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