• Adobe Premiere Pro

  final cut to premiere and pal to ntsc problem

  Posted by Marc Griff on January 12, 2011 at 2:26 am

  Hi! Can you help?

  Facts: My original footage was filmed in PAL (in the UK) on a Sony Z5 camera, and edited in Final Cut on a mac.
  The footage was exported into a 1.5GB quicktime movie and put on a Macbook pro Desktop.

  The problem now:
  I need to get footage from the Mac onto an Adobe Windows Adobe system, (in high quality HD format) to edit into a TV program.

  What I have done so far:
  I have put the existing quicktime movie back into Final Cut and exported it using the following settings:
  Quicktime conversion. DVC pro50 – NTSC, ‘best’ quality, size ‘interlaced’, aspect ration 16:9′, dimensions ‘HD1440x1080 16:9
  However when I transfer it, and play it on the Windows, you can hear the sound but not see the picture.

  I tried it again in various settings. Eventually I used the ‘DV/DVC PRO – NTSC’ setting. I could then hear the sound AND see the picture, BUT the quality wasn’t great.

  What settings should I use? What should I do? Thank you.

  Eric Jurgenson replied 15 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Eric Jurgenson

  January 12, 2011 at 3:42 pm

  DVCPRO 50 is a standard definition format – won’t work for HD. Try DVCPRO HD instead. If you are converting frame rates (25 fps PAL to 30 fps NTSC), you may get better results with After Effects, especially if you have an older version of Premiere.
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  Marc Griff

  January 12, 2011 at 11:23 pm

  Eric
  Thanks for the advice.
  I have rendered the file into quicktime using settings:
  DVCPRO HD (1080i50i) and 1440×1080 dimensions.

  Unfortunately it still doesn’t work on either of the Windows computers which use premier and after effects.

  I can hear the sound but not see the video.
  I have tried using quicktime and quicktime conversion, using all the DVCPRO HD settings and 1440×1080 dimensions.

  So in summary I can render, play and see it on mine, but when transferred to the windows I can only hear the audio.

  A box pops up on the windows advising that I need to buy a quicktime 3rd party conversion, but Im not sure I need one and if so which to chose? CC, DIVx, xVID, Zygo, Streamboxautodesk, QSXredcode raw, etc

  any advice? It must be something pretty simple, but its really frustrating!!
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  Eric Jurgenson

  January 13, 2011 at 1:31 pm

  You could export it as ProRes. Just make sure your Quicktime player is up to date on the Windows machine (QT player now includes ProRes playback codecs. Previously they were available as a seperate install, and that may still be available on the web). You could also export a Targa or Tiff sequence if you have enough disk space available (they are uncompressed).

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