• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  NTSC to PAL mess (I think)

  Posted by Nicolas 24 on August 3, 2005 at 9:41 am

  Hey guys,

  I’ve tried everything you suggested and it still doesn’t seem to work. I checked and there’s 30 frames per second on my canvas – so I might have been working on NTSC (?) thinking that I was on PAL (?).

  If I try playing out on PAL it freezes the first and last frame when I play and stop the timeline on the canvas. Whereas if I playout on NTSC it plays the images all pixelly and slower audio.

  What have I done?? More importantly, how do I sort this out? I should be playing out on PAL.

  Many thanks

  Nicolas 24 replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rene Hazekamp

  August 3, 2005 at 11:22 am

  ha

  First try to figure out whether your footage is PAL or NTSC, if it is mostly NTSC, throw the PAL stuff away. Bring the NTSC stuff in
  a a ntsc timeline.NEVER MIX PAL and NTSC, it won’t work. edit your thing, if you’re lucky you can complete your project in NTSC.
  Make a self containing file and convert that one to PAL.
  For this you can use compressor 2 (though the default settings work poorly)

  rene hazekamp filmmaker

  https://www.renehazekamp.com
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  Uwe Klimmeck

  August 3, 2005 at 2:07 pm

  Or you purchase Graeme Nattress standard conversion filter.
  https://www.nattress.com/standardsConversion.htm
  Works fine for me from PAL-NTSC.

  Greetings
  Uwe
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  Nicolas 24

  August 4, 2005 at 11:41 am

  I know now what I did.

  Digitized PAL cause cam is PAL. FCP converted it to NTSC cause so was the setting and now cam being PAL and footage NTSC it wouldn’t play out properly.

  Can I convert my NTSC to PAL (so that I can play out to my cam?) or,

  Do I need and NTSC deck to play out to?

  Many thanks!

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