• Adobe Premiere Pro

  PAL to NTSC possible?

  Posted by Carlos Angeli on April 17, 2013 at 4:41 pm

  Hi,

  it is my understanding that it is not advisable to change from to NTSC to PAL or vice versa.

  Also, I´ve been told that this could be achieved by hardware instead of software.

  Could anyone confirm or correct this assumption?

  Thanks

  Carlos Angeli replied 13 years ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Tom Daigon

  April 17, 2013 at 4:49 pm

  Yes, the best conversions I have seen were done with hardware.

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  Carlos Angeli

  April 17, 2013 at 5:35 pm

  Thanks Tom. I assumed this wasn’t advisable by software but wanted to confirm in case the newer versions of Premiere or AE had some interpretation capabilities to handle this.
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  Kevin Monahan

  April 17, 2013 at 7:37 pm

  Adobe After Effects: Converting movies from PAL to NTSC: https://adobe.ly/10hxpK3

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  Walter Biscardi

  April 18, 2013 at 12:39 pm

  In all honesty, we did a project about 6 months ago where we had a 720p / 59.94 timeline and within that was mixed in 1080/29.97, 720/29.97 and 1080/25 (PAL) materials.

  Upon final render, we could not see any issues with the PAL media so we just left it alone. It may be because the material was progressive and not interlace, but there was no juddering, no flickering, nothing. We set Premiere Pro to Maximum Render Quality when we output the ProRes master file and it looked fantastic. We even projected it up onto our 7′ projection screen in our screening room and it looked great there.

  So while I used to say ALWAYS convert in hardware, Premiere Pro’s handling of mixed formats is better than any other application I’ve used to date.

  Of course Kevin’s link to the AE conversion trick is good too.

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  Carlos Angeli

  April 18, 2013 at 9:55 pm

  Kevin and Walter,

  thanks for sharing your experiences. I’ll try to make some tests based on your suggestions.

  Thanks!

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