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Video Standards of the World
Because you may find yourself needing to know the video standard of a particular country,
following is a list of the different continents and regions of the world and the video
standards they use.
Note: This list is subject to change and should be used as a guideline only.
Video standardContinents and regions
All countries in the African continent use either the PAL or SECAM
video standard.
Africa
All countries in the Asian continent use either the PAL or SECAM
video standard, with the exception of Burma, Japan, the Philippines,
South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam, which use the NTSC video
standard.
Asia
All islands in the Caribbean region use the NTSC video standard,
with the exception of Guadeloupe and Martinique, which use the
SECAM video standard.
Caribbean
All countries in Central America use the NTSC video standard.Central America
All countries in the European continent use either the PAL or SECAM
video standard.
Europe
All countries in the Middle East use either the PAL or SECAM video
standard.
Middle East
All countries in North America use the NTSC video standard, with
the exception of Greenland, which uses the PAL video standard.
North America
All countries in the Oceania region, including Australia and New
Zealand, use either the PAL or SECAM video standard, with the
exception of American Samoa, Guam, the Marshall Islands,
Micronesia, the Midway Islands, Palau, and Samoa, which use the
NTSC video standard.
Oceania
All countries in South America use the NTSC video standard, with
the exception of Brazil, which uses the PAL-M video standard, and
Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and French Guyana, which use either
the PAL or SECAM video standard.
South America
Changing a Project’s Video Standard
When you create a project, all assets used in it must be the same video standard (NTSC
or PAL). If you want the project to be available in both video standards, you need to create
two projects—one for each standard. You can minimize the amount of work involved in
re-creating the project in the other video standard by keeping the following rules in mind:
• You cannot have any video assets assigned to the project when you try to change the
project’s video standard. Before you can remove the assets from the project, they must
not be in use by any of the project’s elements.
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