• Apple Final Cut Pro

  PAL footage recognised as NTSC? What is going on?!

  Posted by Chris Southern on March 23, 2012 at 9:18 am

  

  Hi everyone, I’m very new here and new to final cut as a whole. In the past, I have used premiere pro 4 and Avid Xpress DV. So please excuse me if anything I say leaps out as entirely moronic!

  I have been shooting footage on my Canon 600d (Rebel t3i). It is set for PAL broadcast settings at 1080p 25fps. When I ingest this footage to FCPX it recognises all of this, yet as you can see from the picture above, it constantly marks the footage as NTSC. I am trying to figure out what potential problems this causes, and more importantly, how to rectify it. As far as I can find, there is no option to change this at all.
  It is probably useful to mention that I live and work in the UK, and all software/hardware is purchased, registered, and set up for European/UK use.

  Can anyone please help me?

  Thank you in advance.

  Chris

  Jeff Kirkland replied 14 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jeff Kirkland

  March 28, 2012 at 8:52 am

  It does the same for me but I don’t really see that it matters. It may say NTSC but if the frame size, rate and colour space are right then it’s still effectively PAL. The difference between PAL/NTSC is a little fuzzier in HD.

  Alternatively, you can always manually set the project to PAL when you create it.

  Cheers,
  Jeff K

  Jeff Kirkland | Southern Creative Media
  video * audio * post * production
  Melbourne, Australia

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