4 Replies Latest reply: Mar 2, 2011 2:57 AM by Neil Wilkes RSS

    PAL versus NTSC will both play in a US blu-ray player/HDTV?

    zorrocbr Community Member

      I'm sure I could test this and find out, but I'm sure someone has a quick answer.  If my assets are 720 X 576 I have heard that Encore re-sizing will create some quality issues.  Would I be better off just editing this in Premiere Pro and Saving in the same 720 X 576 format, burning it to a 25 gb Blu-Ray disk in Encore and then playing it in my Blu-Ray player as is, or would this not work and the asset would have to be re-sized to 720 X 480?

        • 1. Re: PAL versus NTSC will both play in a US blu-ray player/HDTV?
          John T Smith CommunityMVP

          From what I have read here, MOST (but maybe not all) European PAL players will also play NTSC, but almost NO players in the US will play PAL

          • 2. Re: PAL versus NTSC will both play in a US blu-ray player/HDTV?
            Bill Hunt CommunityMVP

            John T.,

             

            That has been my experience too.

             

            Hunt

            • 3. Re: PAL versus NTSC will both play in a US blu-ray player/HDTV?
              Ann Bens CommunityMVP

              Its better to burn 720x576 to a dvd and play it in a dvd that upscales than burning

              it to a Bluray disk that will not be upscaled, the 720x576 footage will look not good.

              If you have 720x576 footage and you live in a ntsc land you need to convert. Wont be for the best, footage will suffer.

              Buy a couple of RW and just try it and see for yourself.

              • 4. Re: PAL versus NTSC will both play in a US blu-ray player/HDTV?
                Neil Wilkes CommunityMVP

                zorrocbr wrote:

                 

                I'm sure I could test this and find out, but I'm sure someone has a quick answer.  If my assets are 720 X 576 I have heard that Encore re-sizing will create some quality issues.  Would I be better off just editing this in Premiere Pro and Saving in the same 720 X 576 format, burning it to a 25 gb Blu-Ray disk in Encore and then playing it in my Blu-Ray player as is, or would this not work and the asset would have to be re-sized to 720 X 480?

                Hi.

                 

                A few things.

                1 - PAL BluRay is frankly a mess. you cannot use 25p, only 50i and support is sporadic as it just is not in the BluRay specs.

                2 - For universal BluRay, you must use either 60i, 30p or 24p for it to work on US/Japanese players.

                3 - 720x576 is not BluRay spec - it is SD. Whilst you can use 720x576, it is not recommended as few players will cope with this.

                You definitely do not want to scale this (upres) in Encore. Or PPro. It will look like a dogs dinner.

                4 - Converting from PAL to NTSC involves more than scaling - the frame rate has to be altered from 25 to 29.97 (30 actually, but we're not talking about timecodes & drop/non drop frame counts now )

                It needs to be done properly - Jeff Bellune has a superb tutorial on acheiving this with open source software at http://bellunevideo.com/tutlist.php

                 

                Hope this helps