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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@bridgeband.com> |
| Subject | Re: Region 2 encoding |
| Date | Fri, 03 Mar 2006 20:21:43 -0700 |
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This isn't much help, but....
the whole frame rate/format thing is really a mess that even causes problems
for big time films. If you read any or the recording/film trades, someone
always has a horror story about getting elements that aren't proper time code
or frame rate.
I was up at the university film dept the other day for a tour of their new
audio suite. The prof who was showing us around admitted that it's a bigger
issue than they want to deal with at their "film school". He made a point of
saying that they were not a technical school. That if you wanted to know that
stuff you'd better plan of going somewhere else! As is is, there is the whole
drop frame 29.9 thing they do anyway. So in fact your film is transferred to
vid at a slightly different speed.
Digital audio is enough trouble, who needs the vid issues..
Drew MacDonald wrote:
> > Hi y'all - Dave Bash was asking about PAL discs playing faster than NTSC
> > discs: Region 2 (PAL) discs DO play at a different rate from the NTSC
> > equivalent. I can't remember why (it's technical, search on Google if you
> > need the detail) but they play around 4% faster. So if you want to save
> > time when watching your DVDs, move to Europe!
>
> It's not THAT technical. Nearly all motion-picture film is exposed at 24
> frames per second, and the PAL-using countries broadcast (and transfer)
> video at 25 frames per second, hence the little speed-up.
>
> The frame rate of television playback is based on the alternating current
> cycle of the country's electrical system --50 Hz in PAL countries and most
> of the world, 60 Hz here-- and since you need two cycles to "draw" one full
> frame of signal, that's where your..
>
> uh...
>
> ....maybe it IS that technical.
>
> Just remember: If that concert film DVD you're considering is in PAL format,
> better not buy it if you are sensitive to minor pitch variations. (If it was
> shot on film, that is. Shot-on-video is a different story.)
>
> Drew
> np: The Revelers - HARD TIMES, SUNDAY SPIRITS (I do believe that "Silver
> Ship" is one of my all-time favorite songs.)
>
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