should i switch to ntsc if i want to burn to blu-ray even if i live in pal land

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sadude

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I had major issues with burning a blu-ray disc with a project recently. The project was shot with my trusty ex1 at 1080p 25 frames per second. When it comes to DVDs i have no problem burning. But when it is time to make a Blu-ray i find out that blu-ray does not support 1080p at 25 frames. it only supports 24p. I am assuming that by 24p they actually mean(23.967) which is one of the two options available when burning a blu-ray disc. (the other option is 29.97).

I could select pal 25i or 50i option as well but then i would be interlacing the video, which is not what i am wanting.

So it seems that pal on blu ray is only interlaced. Which brings me to my question:

Should i be filming and editing in NTSC with my ex1 and if so which frame rate should i be using? 23.967 or 29.97?

If i shoot in 23.97 then i am assuming that i can still export my dvd's as 25p with only a minor timing issue?
 
1080/24p is what I like to call the hybrid format. It converts well to 1080/60i and 1080/50i. Plus it looks good on the interwebs. 1080/30p, while it's nice as a concept is not so cross-compatible.

So yeah, shoot 24p and be happy :-)
 
decided to shoot 25p

decided to shoot 25p

I decided to stick to 25p on my camera. the reason I chose this setting is because I am still burning alot of dvds for clients and sometimes their are a few different versions of dvds that I will have to burn for the client. I can't burn my dvd to 24p because most dvd players will not be able to support that format here in south africa. if I were to shoot in 24p then every time I wanted to show a client a version of the program on dvd I would have to export the program from my 24p timeline as an uncompressed avi and then reimport it onto a pal 25p timeline and interpret the clip as a 25p clip and then render the whole thing as 25p just to get it onto a pal dvd for viewing.it seems just easier to film and edit in 25p for meonce the program is done I will then export it as uncompressed avi and then import it onto a 23.98 timeline and do the interpret as 23.98 clip trick. this is then a great format for burning to blu-ray. after I have exported as 23.98 p blu-ray I can then delete the huge uncompressed avi
 
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