NTSC/PAL and DVD regions at DVinfo.net

Tyler Graas · April 20th, 2009, 12:31 PM

I want to confirm my thoughts.

I'm to provide a DVD for a client to send to Europe and he wanted ntsc/pal formats of the video...as far as i can remember, as long as i have the DVD set to "all regions" the shooting format does not matter and there will be no problems...is this correct?

Stelios Christofides · April 25th, 2009, 10:21 PM

Tyler
You can either record in PAL or NTSC. Now the DVD you make will also be either PAL or NTSC, it can not be both. Your friend in Europe must have a DVD player that can play both systems. Most DVD players sold here have this facility. Mine does.

Stelios

Steve House · April 26th, 2009, 07:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tyler Graas

I want to confirm my thoughts.

I'm to provide a DVD for a client to send to Europe and he wanted ntsc/pal formats of the video...as far as i can remember, as long as i have the DVD set to "all regions" the shooting format does not matter and there will be no problems...is this correct?

The region settings aren't related to the video format except by coincidence.

Stelios Christofides · April 26th, 2009, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve House

The region settings aren't related to the video format except by coincidence.

Steve, I have never seen a region 1 in PAL format. Is it possible then to have a PAL format in region 1? and do you have a setting in your NLE program to burn a DVD in different regions?

Stelios

Andrew Smith · April 26th, 2009, 05:00 PM

Steve,

The region setting isn't related to the format of the video. It's purely an artificial thing to restrict sales of DVDs to various regions for release timing and pricing reasons.

Recommend that you author your DVDs with no region code setting, producing an unrestricted disc. Also, produce both PAL and NTSC versions of these DVDs.

Andrew

Steve House · April 27th, 2009, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stelios Christofides

Steve, I have never seen a region 1 in PAL format. Is it possible then to have a PAL format in region 1? and do you have a setting in your NLE program to burn a DVD in different regions?

Stelios

AFAIK, there's no reason you couldn't burn a Region 1 DVD in a PAL format or a Region 2 in NTSC. It might not make any sense to do it but that's another story. What I understood the initial question to be was does burning it for a specific region also automatically set the video format and AFAIK it does not. For that matter, Region 2 includes countries using all three formats. PAL, SECAM, and NTSC while Region 4, Mexico and South America, includes contries using both PAL and NTSC.

Bill Engeler · April 29th, 2009, 12:17 PM

As Stelios said, the DVD will either be PAL or NTSC; you can't mix them on the same disk (at least for normal DVD format, data DVDs are another story). You will notice in your authoring program that you have to make this choice, one or the other, before you build the DVD.

Regional codes are nothing to worry about, they have no connection to the content, just something added to commercial DVDs for commercial reasons. Your authoring program may or may not allow you to add this to your DVD, but there is no reason you would want to do this.

The bottom line is to send your client one NTSC DVD, and one PAL DVD.

April 20th, 2009, 12:31 PM	#1
Tyler Graas New Boot Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 12	NTSC/PAL and DVD regions I want to confirm my thoughts. I'm to provide a DVD for a client to send to Europe and he wanted ntsc/pal formats of the video...as far as i can remember, as long as i have the DVD set to "all regions" the shooting format does not matter and there will be no problems...is this correct?

April 25th, 2009, 10:21 PM	#2
Stelios Christofides Trustee Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Nicosia, CYPRUS Posts: 1,080	Tyler You can either record in PAL or NTSC. Now the DVD you make will also be either PAL or NTSC, it can not be both. Your friend in Europe must have a DVD player that can play both systems. Most DVD players sold here have this facility. Mine does. Stelios __________________ My Blog: http://steliosc.blogspot.com "I hope for nothing, I fear nothing, I am free" Nikos Kazantzakis

April 26th, 2009, 05:00 PM	#5
Andrew Smith Equal Opportunity Offender Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 3,065	Steve, The region setting isn't related to the format of the video. It's purely an artificial thing to restrict sales of DVDs to various regions for release timing and pricing reasons. Recommend that you author your DVDs with no region code setting, producing an unrestricted disc. Also, produce both PAL and NTSC versions of these DVDs. Andrew

April 29th, 2009, 12:17 PM	#7
Bill Engeler Regular Crew Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Brussels, Belgium Posts: 162	As Stelios said, the DVD will either be PAL or NTSC; you can't mix them on the same disk (at least for normal DVD format, data DVDs are another story). You will notice in your authoring program that you have to make this choice, one or the other, before you build the DVD. Regional codes are nothing to worry about, they have no connection to the content, just something added to commercial DVDs for commercial reasons. Your authoring program may or may not allow you to add this to your DVD, but there is no reason you would want to do this. The bottom line is to send your client one NTSC DVD, and one PAL DVD.