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Conversion PAL > NTSC with Compressor
Hello,
I am struggling to convert a PAL-project to NTSC, in order to make NTSC-DVD’s in DVD Studio Pro. The project’s duration is in total 23 minutes. I am using Compressor. I am not sure though about the settings. As I used animation mixed with video, I opted for exportation in animation format (so the animation part gets exported without loss of quality), millions of colors (in order not to lose quality in the images). Onfortunately, this takes an incredible amount of time: for a piece of 30 seconds it can add up to 3 hours, depending on the settings. And the conversion doesn’t seem to get rid totally of the little shocks in the parts of the images with motion.
Is there a better and faster way?Thanks for your help,
Sarah -
4 Replies
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Hi Sarah,
Compressor can make a very good transcoding as long as you set the “Frame control” in Custom mode, but this make the rendering killing slow.
I would recommend you have a look to the Nattress Standard Convertion Plugin. It’s works much faster and the quality is really good.
Cheers,
rafael -
hey rafael,
thanks. we were chacking this plug in and downloaded a trial version. the manual only refers to “pal dv to ntsc dv” conversion. since we’re working with partially animated footage, we want to avoid as much as possible to export in DV-format since it reduces severely the quality of the animation. do you know wether the full version of this nattress plug in provides more settings, including “animation”?
anyway, meanwhile we have been experimenting with after effects wich seems to give good results for all the”real” footage, but here too the animation is pretty poor quality. we are now considering doing the animation again seperately for NTSC, and do a litle reediting in FCP combining the converted stuff with the ‘new’ animation.
so thanx again, and more clues or hints always welcome
ciao
sarah -
Hi Sarah,
You can use the Nattres Plugin to transcode to any codec. Have a look to his website:
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
If you got any question, just send him an e-mail. Hi is very nice guy and will answer you really fast.
I read of few people in this forum that says they got really shocked with the quality and the speed of the process. -
I’ve had good luck converting stuff with Soresson. Doesn’t seem to take nearly as long.
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