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HDV to PAL to NTSC
Hi,
This is all a bit of a mouthful but please bear with me:I’ve got a 1080 50i project and need PAL and NTSC versions of it.
They will all end up on DVD. I’ve had a go
BUT
They all look dreadful. My workflow is this:
EXPORT HDV movie. (it is a complex project so I don’t want to nest it – too slow)
RE-Import HDV Movies.
Paste HDV movie into PAL 8 (and/or 10) bit uncompressed timeline.
Render timeline and EXPORT PAL 8 (and/or 10) bit uncompressed MOVIE.
My reasoning for this is that if it is going to get heavily re-compressed for the DVD,
I should start with the best quality possible.
The trouble is that my PAL movie look kind of “fingery” sort of horizontal artifacts – obvious/ pixels.That’s just the PAL side of thing. NTSC gets worse. It just kills Compressors dead, but I’ll cross that bridge later.(trash preferences)
Jings, sorry people, I’m even boring myself here.
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2 Replies
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[Joe Murray] “That’s just the PAL side of thing. NTSC gets worse. It just kills Compressors dead, but I’ll cross that bridge later.(trash preferences)”
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Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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[Joe Murray] “EXPORT HDV movie. (it is a complex project so I don’t want to nest it – too slow)
RE-Import HDV Movies.
Paste HDV movie into PAL 8 (and/or 10) bit uncompressed timeline.
Render timeline and EXPORT PAL 8 (and/or 10) bit uncompressed MOVIE.
My reasoning for this is that if it is going to get heavily re-compressed for the DVD,
I should start with the best quality possible.”Joe, any workflow that involves exporting, reimporting, dropping into different timeline and re-exporting gains you nothing. You can’t improve the quality of the original, and every step you mention re-compresses and re-encodes the footage. I understand where you’re coming from – but it just won’t help. In fact, it’ll probably make it worse as the formats are so different.
Try encoding for DVD right off your HDV timeline – use the compressor pre-sets to do it.
Finally: Next to your HDV original, DVD Mpeg 2 BITE$. Don’t over-estimate how good you can ever make it look – it’s just rubbish ol’ Mpeg 😉
Ben
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