Toast Titanium Divx Codec Update
When I was playing around with it I got a message saying I was about to use mixed PAL and NTSC content. I assumed it meant the files had to be converted first before burning You can't mix PAL and NTSC on a DVD, it's not allowed by the standard. So yo have either a PAL or a NTSC DVD. That means, if want to mix those files you have to convert some of them. I don't think you can do that with QT, but I'm not entirely sure. I just did the very same thing with FCP last week, time consuming and you lose quality, but it works.
Originally posted by simifilm: You can't mix PAL and NTSC on a DVD, it's not allowed by the standard. So yo have either a PAL or a NTSC DVD. That means, if want to mix those files you have to convert some of them. I don't think you can do that with QT, but I'm not entirely sure.
I just did the very same thing with FCP last week, time consuming and you lose quality, but it works. Quicktime will do the framerate conversion for you, but not at very high quality. There is an excellent piece of firmware called JES deinterlacer ( ) that will do the conversion for you at very high quality and for free. Be aware though that what you might have is not PAL content (25 fps), but actually film content (24 fps) that needs to be telecined before going on a NTSC DVD. Don't know if toast does that automatically for you. Originally posted by simifilm: You can't mix PAL and NTSC on a DVD, it's not allowed by the standard.
So yo have either a PAL or a NTSC DVD. That means, if want to mix those files you have to convert some of them. I don't think you can do that with QT, but I'm not entirely sure. Well that points to the problem, how do i know which files are PAL content and needs to be converted?
Toast Titanium Divx Codec Update Download
And again converted into what? The most detailed info VLC and QT give you is the FPS and codec used. I do not have quicktime pro or FCP so I was hoping to stick with toast 7. Originally posted by Langdon: Well that points to the problem, how do i know which files are PAL content and needs to be converted? And again converted into what? The most detailed info VLC and QT give you is the FPS and codec used. I do not have quicktime pro or FCP so I was hoping to stick with toast 7.
It is done automatically by Toast, so don't worry! The main thing distinguishing PAL from NTSC is frame rate so the info vlc and quicktime player give you is enough. PAL is 25 fps and NTSC is 29.97 fps. Film source is 24 fps. There is also differences in resolution and interlacing, but you should not have to worry about that. Originally posted by simifilm: You can't mix PAL and NTSC on a DVD, it's not allowed by the standard.
So yo have either a PAL or a NTSC DVD. That means, if want to mix those files you have to convert some of them. I don't think you can do that with QT, but I'm not entirely sure. I just did the very same thing with FCP last week, time consuming and you lose quality, but it works. Quicktime will do the framerate conversion for you, but not at very high quality. There is an excellent piece of firmware called JES deinterlacer ( ) that will do the conversion for you at very high quality and for free. Be aware though that what you might have is not PAL content (25 fps), but actually film content (24 fps) that needs to be telecined before going on a NTSC DVD.
Don't know if toast does that automatically for you. Are you sure 24fps content needs telecine to put it on DVD? I thought there was a special 24fps DVD mode (or does this only exist for PAL DVDs?). Originally posted by simifilm: Are you sure 24fps content needs telecine to put it on DVD? Gmod addon store.
I thought there was a special 24fps DVD mode (or does this only exist for PAL DVDs?). No, not really, there are other tricks, but telecining is almost the norm. Only 25 fps and 29.97 are in the DVD standard, so some encoding-fu has to be done. It is all explained here: and here: Note that PAL DVDs from film source are slightly sped up (25 fps instead of 24 fps) with respect to the actual movie, but you get better resolution with PAL.
Originally posted by Steve Yun: Toast 7 will handle it automatically for you. Don't worry about it. Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I just want to be clear on this. So just select 'DVD-Video' drop in the mixed batch of files and click burn and it will convert the files for me to make it into a DVD playable disc? Because when I do that i get this: So I click cancel.
I thought I may have missed a step and had to use the 'export video' function in Toast to convert it into something else first. The PDF manual that came with Toast is pretty vauge on the whole process so thanks for the help. Originally posted by Steve Yun: edit: another option is. Well, just leave it as PAL, since most DVD players will convert PAL footage to NTSC anyways. If you define most to be about 5% of them. Unfortunately this feature is very uncommon in the US.
In Europe, most TVs will play the pseudo PAL (60 fps instead of the standard 50 fps and with PAL color coding) output that DVD players there will output when confronted with NTSC material. In the US, hardly any DVD-TV combo will display PAL DVDs. You need DVD players that have chip built in that does the conversion. There are a few from Philips, Cyberhome, and such that do. Langdon has Tribus Flat lands, which might mean The Netherlands. If so, it shouldn't matter indeed. Next to Toast, you could also use iDVD.
It should work with the divx stuff if you have the 3ivx codec installed. It doesn't get much flatter than Illinois Anyway, here's what happened. The.mov files are from Apple before they started charging for music video downloads. SVQ3 codec which I can only assume is Sorenson.
When i tried to include those in Toast and pushed through the PAL/NTSC warning I get another warning 'Could not record disc because of MacOS error, Result Code = -2126' I assume this is part of the limitations Apple forced onto Roxio back in Toast 6? Clearly those won't just convert for some reason. So another solution needs to be found for them. So I removed them and converted only some Mpegs. A DVD was made.
It all appeared to turn out OK but 2 of the files crash the set-top DVD player when I select them. I can't figure out why since seemingly similar files do play. Though the DVD player app in OSX plays them fine. No.avi files have yet to be thrown into the mix.
Click 'Create New Project' 3. Drag the video clip into iDVD. If you don't want a menu, click View - Show Map. Then, arrange the video clip before the menu, click it, click Advanced - Loop. If you want to turn to the third party software, there is an easy way, you can try DVD Creator for Mac, it can create standard video DVD, it can directly convert and burn any videos to DVD(DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-DL, DVD+DL, etc), such as AVI to DVD, etc. Work well on my computer, i like it, and i believe that once you try it, you will like it too. Following is a step by step guide: Hope it can help you.