I am currently making a dvd of the band I sound engineer for but I am stumped when it comes to what film standards to use. I understand what sample rate and what standard I have to export the sound as and I understand that I have to use the PAL standard for Britain and the NTSC standard for America but I need to know what file formats to export the footage too, in order for it to play on most domestic machines in Britain to begin with but there is a market for the band world wide, I've used MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 but for some reason the demo footage so far doesn't play on all DVD players, I am wondering if it is the discs I'm using, the format I've exported it as or even inferior dvd players.
I am running final cut studio pro on a G5 and there are so many export options it is a bit of a mine field. Please can someone help.
Hi there,
MPEG-2 should be fine. Check out the H.264 compression. I've been trying that out lately.
Maybe your problem lies more in what's going on at the authoring stage...
Assuming you shot the footage as PAL then when you start a new project in your DVD authoring software you should set your preferences accordingly.
As far as Region Codes go you should set this to whatever applies. Region 0 will play everywhere, Region 2 is Europe, SA & Japan, Region 1 is USA etc...
Should you wish an American version, however, as you originally shot in PAL then it's not just a simple case of setting up an NTSC Region 1 project in your authoring software and going for it! You need to get your master edit converted to NTSC first.
Hope that makes sense - I just woke up ?;)?
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Thank you for the information rbXp, that has helped a great deal, cheers!
