just a quick question i was hoping you might be able to help me with.

thanks to chickenman, i can burn vcd's and dvd's with my eyes closed now, which believe me is a huge step forward for me! i was just wondering... when you are encoding via TMPGEnc, and you look at the bar at the bottom of the screen to see the fbs, then load in the appropriate template for either pal,ntsc or film.. does it make any difference on the outcome... or to make more sense... if the fbs on a film is 25 (PAL) would it still play on a dvd machine which plays NTSC DVD's and vice versa. if so, when i am encoding a PAL movie, can i just switch the template to get an NTSC VCD?

secondly, if i wanted to put say, 10 smallish video clips on a vcd, some of which are NTSC and some of which are PAL, would that work, or again, should i encode them all to the same fbs?

hope that makes sense, and thanks, as always for your responses.

eli

i always use NTSC only not film.


you can't put video clips with different standards in the same VCD.

Encoding a PAL source as NTSC is not as simple as just loading the NTSC template.

are there any tutorials that explain how to do this? i would like to learn these things so i won't be forever classed as a 'noob' and so the next time i post it might actually sound like i know what i'm talking about. i have looked on the tutorial thread and i can't see any there.... any suggestions?

thanks again

eli

Link!!

I hope that could be of some help.
As you can see, only the templates wont take care of everything. but that guide should help you out some.


as for your second request, I guess that would depend on the dvd player. Mine can output either NTSC and PAL in multi mode. You would need to check that for yours.

thanks o770 that link was really useful. as for my dvd player, i can convert it to region free so hopefully that should be ok then. i suppose i'd just have a problem when my friends wanted to borrow my vcd's if they only have region 2 players. i'll have a think and decide if they're good enough friends for me to go through all the trouble of converting my files!!

thanks again

eli

Just selecting the TMPGenc NTSC template while encoding a PAL movie will result in an unpleasant jerky movie.

If a DVD Player says it can play VCD's then it can play the 3 VCD standards, thats PAL, NTSC and FILM. VCD's do NOT have any Region coding in them, thats for DVD's only. All DVDR's are region free also.

thanks chickenman, that's saved me a lot of trouble

eli