
Originally Posted by
david walsh
What you've heard is pretty much right enough, although I'm not sure how it will play in SECAM regions. Years back I checked a VHS tape on a SECAM player. It played back in black and white but it was on a PAL TV.
Frame sizes and PAR are different for NTSC and PAL, thats the main issue, PAL will play back the NTSC frame size no problem.
For future reference if you shoot on 5D MkII at 24p, which will go straight onto NTSC or PAL DVD, at HD resolution and put this straight on to NTSC discs you should be fine. I used to do this with Adobe Encore to make PAL and NTSC versions from the same source and Encore taken care of the HD - SD conversion very well.
David.
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