How to Change PAL to NTSC
Many countries support different broadcast systems. The 2 major broadcast formats are NTSC and PAL. NTSC is a video broadcast encoding format used chiefly in the United States while PAL is used mainly in Europe, Africa and Asia. NTSC supports resolutions of 720 by 480 while PAL supports resolutions of 720 by 576. For PAL-formatted DVDs to work on an NTSC system, they have to be converted to NTSC format. This process allows the DVDs to work on Region 1 DVD players
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Instructions
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Download VLC Media Player (see link in Resources). Follow the set-up instructions to install it.
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Place your PAL DVD disc into the DVD-ROM drive on your computer. Double-click the "VLC Media Player" icon on your desktop or the location that you saved it. Click "Media" on the top, then scroll down and click "Open Disc"
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Choose the "Disc" tab on the newly opened disc menu, and then check the "DVD" button. Check the "Stream/Save" check box; click 'Settings." Place a check on the "File" check box, then select the location you want to save the output file to.
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Click the "MPEG PS" button, and then place a check on the "Audio Codec" check box. Choose either "MP3" or "MP2a" audio format, and then select "192" bit-rate quality. Change the audio channels to "2" for a balanced left and right playback. Check the "Select all elementary streams" check box.
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Click "OK" to start copying the elements to the output location you had selected. Depending on the length of your video, it may take at least 30 minutes or longer.
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Locate your video files when the copy is complete. They are now in digital NTSC format on your PC. From there, you may upload them to your video-sharing sites or burn them to a DVD disc, using your favorite DVD burner program.
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