From advertisments it appears secam DVDs can be made with the above programme. There is no details in the manual as to how this is possible. I have an HD disc made from the project in the above programme.
Any help would be apprececiated.
Hi,
I really doubt that you will be able to create a SECAM DVD nor do I understand why you would want to. As far as I know (and I did research this a bit) This from http://www.videointerchange.com/pal_secam_conversions.htm
"There is no such thing as a SECAM DVD. All DVD's viewed in France and other SECAM countries are in fact PAL. The very limited market resulted in no manufacturer (including even the French) making a SECAM DVD player/recorder. Unlike the US, just about all French TV's are in fact multi-standard and support the PAL standard."
MEP will definitely all you to record in the PAL or NTSC format, but not SECAM.
George
nigelhaverly,
Like George, my searching found much the same -- "There is no such thing as a SECAM DVD...". Further I went through the pdf manual and found only two secam references. The first sensibly explains that if you get only black and white trying to record you probably have a secam source which encodes color in its own peculair way.
The second pdf entry is I'd say an example of Magix's not quite up to date*** documentation. You're told that you should choose a video format "...specific to the country so that the material can be played on the devices most commonly available in these countries. For instance, you should select PAL for Germany, SECAM for France and NTSC for the US.", but the window being described lists only PAL and NTSC.
*** Perhaps the manual reference is from a time when the encoder (which is under licence from it's creator) included SECAM. I dusted of an old machine with MEP 11 and there is no SECAM there either! Likewise there are still mentions of MIDI in the manual though it has not been supported for some time now.
Regards,
Carl
Hi
To be even more specific - it does not matter whether the DVD is encoded PAL or NTSC so long as the DVD player can read the disc format.
The player then takes care of the conversion to the TV standard that it is set for or designed for if it can only output one format ie if it is country specific.
So if the player is capable of outputting SECAM, either by design or is selectable, then there should be no problem with a TV that can only accept SECAM signals - it would have to be an old TV!
As George says most French TV are capable of accepting PAL (Europe) signals and newer TV's are multistandard.
The reason you will only get black and white image recording SECAM is because the TV standard does not transmit the 'composite' black/white image and colour information together but as two seperate sequential blocks of information the TV delays one block while the second is received then combines the two together to giv a colour image.
HTH
John