one wheel addiction has been released in australia as of this week.
although i have a major problem in regards to USA and canada distribution…
NTSC is the worst format ever… my dvd is in PAL format, mostly universally recognised format apart from the United States and Canada.
i have tried to convert my video to NTSC format. it is much harder than i originally presumed. and not only that but it skips and reshuffles frames here and there and greatly reduces the quality of the picture.
a little about NTSC… the frame rate is 29.97 fps and the video size is 720x480.
normal pal video is 720x576 and runs at the same frame rate as film at 24fps.
without a million dollar converting device… (like the ones they have at DVD authoring companies) and a squillion dollars, i will not be able to convert it properly to its best capacity.
(may have exaggerated a little on pricing here)
the most annoying thing is… in australia (and i assume everywhere else in the world) we own PAL DVD players that are compatible with NTSC DVDs… but not vice versa!!!
im beginning to think that i am not able to sell my dvd in the states. unless you really really want one, and then you are able to play it on your computer, or a PAL dvd player.
wellll… you could have it available for download, and then just charge people less than you do for the hard copy. That would work, it wouldn’t be as good quality and all that.
But it would work.
i could yes… but authors of these kinds of videos see very little money compared to the efforts they put in… hardly worth it from my point of view. and videos that come from the internet are much less apreciated than hard copy videos.
i am considering it as a last option.
i had an offer to show it at toque. then at least whoever is there will be able to see it.
I play a lot of DVDs on my computer. I’ve got a nice computer monitor. It looks sharp.
I’ve never tried a PAL DVD, but I’m pretty sure (almost 100% sure) that a PAL DVD will play just fine on a computer as long as you have a DVD drive and DVD player software.
It’s not ideal for those of us stuck in NTSC land, but it won’t stop me from buying the DVD.
I am sure you could provide it for DL with a fee. It shouldn’t be too hard to setup a Paysite for your video. With 3 differnt qualities: Perfect(for people like me with uber-fast net connection and tons of free space) Medium(for people with either a slower connection or a limeted holding size) small(56kers and people with old craputers). I’d be willing to pay 10 bucks for a perfect version DL. I could burn it into DVD or VCD format on my computer and I’d be set.
We had some success doing standards conversion etc. using tmpgenc, available from the site below. We weren’t mastering to dvd though, so I don’t know about that bit. There’s some stuff about doing it on the sites below.
I know I’ll still buy a copy. I can play it on my computer.
I hate how USA and Canada (thought it doesnt really affect me much wether Canada does or doesnt use it, unless I could buy a dvd player from there then I’d be set so it does affect me) has to have different systems like that.
Silly Yanks
What software was used to author it? It can’t be converted that way?
Worse comes to worse, if you’ve got a computer DVD drive, rip it to uberquality DIVX, and get a friend to burn it to a DVD for ya…
> I’ve never tried a PAL DVD, but I’m pretty sure (almost 100% sure) that
> a PAL DVD will play just fine on a computer as long as you have a DVD
> drive and DVD player software.
Presumably a few (inferior) programs choke on one or the other.
Another tidbit from this DVD FAQ is that DVD players that handle both
formats (i.e. nearly all PAL players; practically no NTSC players)
don’t generally adjust the frame rate. Instead they output pseudo-PAL
at NTSC rates, and the monitor has to adjust accordingly.
