Pal file sizes are smaller than NTSC?
 

:? Has anyone noticed that Pal encodes always turn out lower than Ntscfilm? I have encoded an NtscFilm The 51st State and a Pal one. The Pal encode is 612mb with the cq at 80, Audio at 190kbps and dual channel selected. With the same settings on NtscFilm the movie is 779mb. I tried it out on Oceans 11 and the same thing, Pal much lower than NtscFilm by 140mb.There isnt that much of a difference between the two frame rates, so how could this be?

Could you give more details about what settings you used? The only thing I can think of is that this relates to the FPS of the movie. NTSCfilm is 23.957fps, and PAL is usually 25 I believe. However, if you encoded the NTSC version at 29fps rather than 23.957 fps, and still did the PAL version at 25fps, this could explain your difference.

If this is not the case, this would be an amazing find. An extra 140mb just by going to pal format? Woo! I somehow doubt this is the case though :)

:oops: Your right Daagar, I had encoded the movies with an older template i had saved (thinking it was an NTSCFILM 23 fps) when it was an NTSC template i used. Think I've had to many late nights at this. Thanx for the reply though. :D