I'm new to burning my own home movies , I live in America and I have family in the UK - what dvds should I use for them?

I'm new to burning my own home movies , I live in America and I have family in the UK - what dvds should I use for them Asked by moviemaker 17 months ago Similar questions: burning home movies live America family UK dvds Entertainment > Movies.

Similar questions: burning home movies live America family UK dvds.

1 The DVDs themselves are irrelevent, they are region free. But if you burn them to play on a Region 1 machines (US players) they will not play on Region 2 machines (UK players). hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/..., region free DVD players are now available and are not any more expensive than the standard models.

The DVDs themselves are irrelevent, they are region free. But if you burn them to play on a Region 1 machines (US players) they will not play on Region 2 machines (UK players). hometheater.about.com/cs/dvdlaserdisc/a/..., region free DVD players are now available and are not any more expensive than the standard models.

2 You aren't likely to put any copy protection on a dvd you burn yourself, but you probably want to encode it in PAL, rather than NTSC.

You aren't likely to put any copy protection on a dvd you burn yourself, but you probably want to encode it in PAL, rather than NTSC.

Pnek replied to post #2: 3 Actually, I suppose region coding isn't really copy protection, but a means of controlling the dvd market. I really don't know what the justification for region coding is, but any dvd you make at home would not normally include it.

Actually, I suppose region coding isn't really copy protection, but a means of controlling the dvd market. I really don't know what the justification for region coding is, but any dvd you make at home would not normally include it.

4 I've never done this; I hope someone answers who actually has experience. Until then ...First, don't worry too much about DVD regions; if you're burning your own DVDs it's almost certain the software will burn a regional DVD -- if you see an option in the software about regions, just make sure the regional option is chosen, but it should be by default. Pnek already mentioned PAL versus NTSC.

A bit more about that. The world uses three incompatible broadcast TV standards; they differ in things like frame rate, color encoding, and vertical resolution. The US uses "NTSC", and the UK uses "PAL".

You can Google the details for those formats, but the bottom line is that you have to make sure your burning software can burn to the PAL standard. Expect some loss of quality and greater processing time because of this necessary conversion between the standards. Your UK friends may have player that can play an NTSC DVD onto a PAL TV, but this is unusual so you shouldn't count on it.

Assuming you bought your camcorder and software in the US, they will be NTSC. Very few consumers will ever be interested in burning a DVD for a different broadcast standard, so IF your burning software supports PAL, it may be buried in options that you'll have to hunt down. If you're using software that was supplied with the camcorder, it's pretty likely that an option like PAL is not even offered, so you'll have to buy a more fully-featured software product.

Google "consumer video software" for instance to learn about the options. I personally use Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platium HD for editing movies and creating DVDs and Blurays, but this is probably overkill for you. Lastly, a bit about terminology.

You wrote about burning a DVD so I've been using the term "burning", but I've really been describing the software process of taking camcorder footage (possibly edited) and processing it into PC files that can then be physically burned onto a physical DVD. That process is called "authoring" a DVD. Ideally, the NTSC to PAL conversion can happen at the "authoring" stage so you can keep your edited movies in the original NTSC standard and only convert to PAL when you're making a DVD for the UK.

I've never done this; I hope someone answers who actually has experience. Until then ...First, don't worry too much about DVD regions; if you're burning your own DVDs it's almost certain the software will burn a regional DVD -- if you see an option in the software about regions, just make sure the regional option is chosen, but it should be by default. Pnek already mentioned PAL versus NTSC.

A bit more about that. The world uses three incompatible broadcast TV standards; they differ in things like frame rate, color encoding, and vertical resolution. The US uses "NTSC", and the UK uses "PAL".

You can Google the details for those formats, but the bottom line is that you have to make sure your burning software can burn to the PAL standard. Expect some loss of quality and greater processing time because of this necessary conversion between the standards. Your UK friends may have player that can play an NTSC DVD onto a PAL TV, but this is unusual so you shouldn't count on it.

Assuming you bought your camcorder and software in the US, they will be NTSC. Very few consumers will ever be interested in burning a DVD for a different broadcast standard, so IF your burning software supports PAL, it may be buried in options that you'll have to hunt down. If you're using software that was supplied with the camcorder, it's pretty likely that an option like PAL is not even offered, so you'll have to buy a more fully-featured software product.

Google "consumer video software" for instance to learn about the options. I personally use Sony Vegas Movie Studio Platium HD for editing movies and creating DVDs and Blurays, but this is probably overkill for you. Lastly, a bit about terminology.

You wrote about burning a DVD so I've been using the term "burning", but I've really been describing the software process of taking camcorder footage (possibly edited) and processing it into PC files that can then be physically burned onto a physical DVD. That process is called "authoring" a DVD. Ideally, the NTSC to PAL conversion can happen at the "authoring" stage so you can keep your edited movies in the original NTSC standard and only convert to PAL when you're making a DVD for the UK.

Vectorizer replied to post #4: 5 In second paragraph, "just make sure the regional option is chosen" should have been "just make sure the region-free option is chosen" .

In second paragraph, "just make sure the regional option is chosen" should have been "just make sure the region-free option is chosen.

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