[Frameworks] How do people encode DVDs for international distribution? NTSC / PAL?

robert at ontosmedia.com robert at ontosmedia.com
Fri Jan 3 18:42:10 UTC 2020


I have a question that frameworkers might be able to help with.

I and a collaborator recently received a grant in Denmark to put a 
number of experimental films on DVD and/or BluRay.  What we have run 
into is this: the films are at 24fps, both made at that speed visually 
and for the music that was written for them.  In Denmark, the DVD 
company only encodes at 25fps in PAL.  This is the wrong speed for both 
the picture and the music.  BluRay works fine.  One option that has been 
suggested is to just make the BluRay and provide a link to watch the 
original file online.  I don't especially like this option, but I'm not 
sure I see another way.

The problem isn't really that the DVD would be PAL, it's that the speed 
is wrong.

What have others of you done in this sort of situation?

Thanks for any stories or recommendations!

Robert Schaller


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