The easiest explanation is that if you make a movie in any of these places, than you use the NTSC format:
Antigua El Salvador Philippians
Bahamas Ecuador Puerto Rico
Barbados Guam Saipan
Barbuda Guatemala Samoa
Belize Haiti South Korea
Bermuda Honduras Saint Kitts
Bolivia Jamaica Saint Lucia
Burma Japan Saint Vincent
Cambodia Mexico Surinam
Canada Midway Islands Taiwan
Cayman Islands Netherland Antilles Tobago
Chile Nicaragua Trinidad
Colombia North Mariana Island United States
Costa Rica Panama Venezuela
Cuba Peru Virgin Islands
However, if you make a video in any of these places, then you use the PAL format.
Afghanistan Holland Portugal
Albania Hong Kong Qutar
Algeria Iceland Romania
Angola India Singapore
Argentina Indonesia Somalia
Australia Ireland South Africa
Austria Israel S.W. Africa
Azores Italy Spain
Baharain Jordan Sri Lanks
Bangladesh Kenya Sudan
Belgium Kuwait Swaziland
Botswana Laos Sweden
Brazil Liberia Switzerland
Brunei Madeire Tanzania
Cameroon Malaysia Thailand
Canary Islands Malta Turkey
Cyprus Mozambique Uganda
Denmark Nepal United Arab
Dubai New Guinea Emirates
England New Zealand United Kingdom
Ethiopia Nigeria Uruguay
Faeroe Islands North Korea West Germany
Finland Norway Yemen
Ghana Oman Yugoslavia
Gibraltar Pakistan Zambia
Guinea Paraguay Zimbabwe
Greenland Poland
Now for a little more technical explanation.
The main difference between the two formats is the lines. Video is made up of little squares or dots. There are millions of these dots that make up your picture. All of these dots are in lines. This is called video resolution.
NTSC has 480 horizontal lines, whereas PAL has 576. This makes PAL the better one for video resolution. But wait ... that may sound great, but keep reading!
Since PAL has a better resolution, that makes the file size bigger then NTSC. We are talking 20% bigger! Most PAL DVDs are duel layer discs for this reason. Generally, you can get away with burning a NTSC DVD on just a single layered disc.
That is the biggest difference between the two formats. Since I live in North America, I have to use NTSC if I want my videos to play correctly on a home DVD player.
The last thing that I would like to say is this...
BURN YOUR DVD IN THE SAME FORMAT YOU FILMED IT IN!!
If you try to convert the footage, you may get some very unwanted problems! When converting, two major things have to be accomplished. The first is the lines. PAL having 576 and NTSC having 480. That is a very big gap! You are going to lose quality or try and put quality in your video that was nonexistent since filming! The second is frame rate. Even though Cinema NTSC is said to be filmed in 24 FPS (Frames Per Second), that is really not true. NTSC FPS is actually 30. PAL FPS is 25. Again, that has to be either given more frames or you are going to lose frames.
If you would like to know more of the technical info, go to this website PAL vs NTSC.
Since PAL has a better resolution, that makes the file size bigger then NTSC. We are talking 20% bigger! Most PAL DVDs are duel layer discs for this reason. Generally, you can get away with burning a NTSC DVD on just a single layered disc.
That is the biggest difference between the two formats. Since I live in North America, I have to use NTSC if I want my videos to play correctly on a home DVD player.
The last thing that I would like to say is this...
BURN YOUR DVD IN THE SAME FORMAT YOU FILMED IT IN!!
If you try to convert the footage, you may get some very unwanted problems! When converting, two major things have to be accomplished. The first is the lines. PAL having 576 and NTSC having 480. That is a very big gap! You are going to lose quality or try and put quality in your video that was nonexistent since filming! The second is frame rate. Even though Cinema NTSC is said to be filmed in 24 FPS (Frames Per Second), that is really not true. NTSC FPS is actually 30. PAL FPS is 25. Again, that has to be either given more frames or you are going to lose frames.
If you would like to know more of the technical info, go to this website PAL vs NTSC.
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