God Of War Pal Vs Ntsc

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Francisco Raya

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:49:47 PM8/3/24

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Ok the first part of the conversion is the frame size, PAL typically works at 768X576 but you best convert it to 720X576.The next difference is the frame rate; you need to drop it down from 30/29.97 fps to 25fps.But more important than that is the field dominance, in NTSC the odd fields, that 1,3,5,7,9,11 and so on right down to 525 are activated first. In PAL the even fields are activated first 2,4,6,8,10,12 all the way down to 624 so you need to reverse the field dominance in the field options.That's all there is to know, burn them on to a DVD or export them through fire wire to a PAL VHS deck (with firewire in) and the quality should only be marginally different from your NTSC copy.Hope that helps
- Richard

You probably do not need to go to all this trouble. 95% of European DVD players will play NTSC discs with no problem. I use the NTSC settings in Premier, export with either TMPG or the Mainconcept encoder in 6.5, and burn with DVDit. The discs play fine both on NTSC and PAL systems.I haven't seen the PAL output yet, but my folks in the UK tell me they look good.

I encode at the very highest quality (8000kbps), so maybe that reduces any resolution losses in the player. Whatever, it is still vastly better than any conversion of VHS tape that I used to use, and certainly avoids any issues with frame rates, resolutions and field dominance.

I've tried NTSC discs on a lot of region 2 players and most of them work fine but the underlying thing is the TV its going to be played on. To ensure total compatibility with every single TV made in the UK ever so it'll work properly you need to do a full conversion.I've wrestled with NTSC and PSUEDO PAL and something in-between for years and I still find that just a little more time and effort solves any problem.Converting NTSC to PAL on VHS is crap I agree but if you do it digitally there should be very little problems and marginal quality loss from changing the frame size.

According to your instractions, all i need to do is to import my dv material (ntsc) to Premier 6.5 change frame size to
720x576 and rate to 25fps and export it to mpeg-2 and burn it to DVD? If I misundrestood something, please correct me or list the correct processes. THANK YOU.

You have to do FIELD-blending. Premiere will only do FRAME-blending. And that helps very little. I've found a program that converts from PAL-NTSC or opposite with field blending for $98 and is called aDVanced PAL-NTSC converter: . It will even morph between fields (if you want) to get the extra fields when converting from 25-29,97 fps (but it's not nice done) and it will only understand DV-coded AVIs, and output DV-AVIs, so you can't frameserve directly from Premiere through the converter to TMPEG (for instance).Does anyone know about a plug-in for Premiere, that does the job?

However, a little searching suggests that the solution would be, assuming that your output is indeed named TV-1, is to use xrandr --output TV-1 --set "tv standard" ntsc. xrandr --verbose should give you a list of all the outputs and the different modes and such they support. If that works but fails to produce a reasonable size, you might want to first do xrandr --output TV-1 --set "load detection" 1. If it gives you a BadName error, you might want to use tv_standard instead of "tv standard".