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Convert NTSC to PAL
Hello
Does anyone can explain me the best way to convert NTSC footage into PAL footage.
I heard that is possible to do with after effects or with NLE’s like Final Cut or Pemiere.
Thanks
Paulo Mateus -
3 Replies
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From a previous thread about this …
Bring NTSC footage in and conform the frame rate to 30fps. Put it in a comp and double the rate of the comp to 60fps. Turn frame blending on.
Then drag this comp onto the comp icon and ensure this new comp is set to 30fps. Set the ‘Stretch’ value of the layer to 200%.
Finally drag this into a PAL comp at 25fps and with the same aspect ratio (ie 4:3/16:9) as your NTSC comps. Open the Stretch Panel and set it to 50%. The duration of this comp should be exactly the same as your initial comp. Use Fit-To-Frame (and check that your horizontal and vertical scale values are the same to make sure you haven’t stretched the picture in any one direction). And add a vertical gaussian blur of 1px.
Render out to 25fps at whatever field dominance (usually UFF) your Capture card likes.
Effectively you are deinterlacing your films’s fields to frames and recombining them for PAL UFF (unless working in DV, in which case, LFF). Give it a whirl, sometimes you get the odd piece of footage that doesn’t like this technique, but for other 90% of the time…
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Paulo, I noticed in your profile that you also have a G5.
If you have Compressor 2, then I understand that it can convert between NTSC and PAL (either direction) for you.
Haven’t had the need to try it out yet, but you might want to give it a shot.
Here’s what Apple’s website says about Compressor2:
Pristine scaling and encoding
Optical flow image analysis for advanced conversions
Scale and encode HD to SD MPEG-2 in one step
Convert interlace to progressive
Convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PALGood luck!
Jon
TreeLine Productions
Fort Collins, CO USA -
Ok I will try that.
ThanksPaulo Mateus
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