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TheSkiller · 17th November 2012, 13:03

Alright, so things aren't as easy as it seemed from your first post.

In that case, like Ghitulescu mentioned, you most likely want to get the original 23.976 fps video file from them.
The only reason I can think of why you'd still want them to give you something more PAL compatible would be if they did a proper conversion to 50i (via Pulldown) or 25p (via Speed-Up) so that you don't have to deal with that and have an easy time making a PAL DVD.

At this point you have to decide between these two:

1) Simply make a NTSC DVD from the 23.976 video. Easy. But slightly inferior to a proper PAL DVD. Also it won't play properly on all TVs in Europe, but almost all.

2) Make a PAL DVD either from 23.976 by doing it yourself or by requesting 25p or 50i.

I personally wouldn't blindly rely on someone doing a proper frame rate conversion for you. My experience is, most people don't know what they are doing (sometimes even the professionals) and think their NLE does it magically right.

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TheSkiller Registered User Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Germany Posts: 632	Alright, so things aren't as easy as it seemed from your first post. In that case, like Ghitulescu mentioned, you most likely want to get the original 23.976 fps video file from them. The only reason I can think of why you'd still want them to give you something more PAL compatible would be if they did a proper conversion to 50i (via Pulldown) or 25p (via Speed-Up) so that you don't have to deal with that and have an easy time making a PAL DVD. At this point you have to decide between these two: 1) Simply make a NTSC DVD from the 23.976 video. Easy. But slightly inferior to a proper PAL DVD. Also it won't play properly on all TVs in Europe, but almost all. 2) Make a PAL DVD either from 23.976 by doing it yourself or by requesting 25p or 50i. I personally wouldn't blindly rely on someone doing a proper frame rate conversion for you. My experience is, most people don't know what they are doing (sometimes even the professionals) and think their NLE does it magically right. Last edited by TheSkiller; 17th November 2012 at 13:06.