Pal to Ntsc for edit

What do i need to change in-order to place pal footage in a ntsc tl ?

Will the process bother quality?


i did a search 3 pages of pal post but no pal to ntsc. mostly ntsc to pal. Kinda weird that its not there.

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"no pal to ntsc. mostly ntsc to pal"

it's the same.
the biggest thing to get around is the difference in frame rates.

fcp will do a very simplistic version (drop/repeat frames)

compressor or Nattress will do better.

if sync is not an issue, open the files on Cinema Tools, and "Conform" tehm to the new frame rate.
25 to 29.97 would speed up the footage quite a bitt.
25 to 23.98 would not be too noticeable,
then you can convert somehow to 29.97
(dont ask me how, i live in PAL land)


nick

Hi,

This should help:
[www.macworld.com]

Best Wishes,

Mitch

Best Wishes!

Mitch

Nattress is excellent...we used it on a documentary in Africa....worked great both ways ...it resizes...uprezes downrezes...keeps audio sync...outstanding and a bargain to boot -- Andy

3 options.

1. Compressor/cinema tools to convert. Pros- much higher quality yield than rendering in Final Cut. Cons- takes a long time to render.

3. Hardware downconversion. Pros- fast, high quality conversion. Cons- price.

2. Nattress' standard's converter.

the cinema tools "conform" should be instantaneous.
(i cant comment on the pulldown process)

it's my understanding that:
compressor will give the best results when everything is set to "best"
this will be slightly better than Nattress but take a LOT longer.

Nattress is very god quality with respectable render times.

Hardware would probably be the best quality, but yes there is a cost involved.


cheers,
nick

i used nattress conversion standards to convert.

i got stock footage pal in the jpeg codec. now its ntsc.

""" What you do with what you have, is more important than what you could do, with what you don't have."

> > > Knowledge + Action = Wisdom - J. Corbett 1992 """"