Okay... we've been having these threads about "how to convert" NTSC to PAL and viceversa, but my question goes in a different direction... I can watch either NTSC and PAL movies on my TV so it's the same for me, but if I had to make a conversion, which would be the system to go? I mean, if I wanted to standardize all of my movies on either PAL or NTSC, which would be "the system" to pick? Should I convert my PALs to NTSC or the other way round? Which system is "the best" (if any)? Or in which way I will lose less quality?? Curious
What part of the world do you live in? That should be the determining factor of what system you use, when in Rome do as the Romans do. IMHO
If you EVER want to lend out one of your videos, you'd better make sure it's standard for your location. There's nothing worse than having (insert some relative/friend here) phoning you up, complaining that YOUR disk doesn't work in HIS machine, and calling you all sorts of unflattering names.
I live in the southern cone, where our TV standard is PAL-N. But, during the 90's with the boom of imported VCRs (in NTSC) it became necessary to adapt TVs. Thus nowadays practically every TV set sold here in BA is NTSC / PAL-N / PAL-M as well as VCRs and DVDs. That's why it's the same which system I work with. If I had to pick up one system (PAL or NTSC) which would be the chosen one, based on technical stuff? Just for curiousity.
PAL is generally regarded as higher quality, although because of the framesize, it theoretically is lower, because it requires more bitrate, but is higher because it requires more bitrate. ~ PAL also has a GOP of 15, which means more I frames than NTSC's 18 (although NTSC can also be 15). 16:9 video looks better on an NTSC TV (less letterboxing effect).
Okay... thnx It always seemed to me that NTSC had more disadvantages than PAL, so I'd rather stick to PAL if possible...
it seems I'm gonna stick to NTSC because it's giving me less trouble with DVD Lab Pro than PAL. It's strange because I've encoded the very same video in PAL & NTSC. In NTSC I compile it and the menu shows perfectly well, but in PAL the screen turns out black after compilation!?!?! Weird, huh?
Well, I chose under the project properties tab "PAL" and I think that's all. Although I confess I opened the very same NTSC project and saved it as PAL, with the very same menues and such (although I did change what mentioned and encoded every movie on PAL, of course)
