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Conversion from 25fps to 29,97fps question
Greetings once again,
Here’s my problem. I shot and edited my feature in PAL format. And now I need to export it for DVD in NTSC.
I have been told that the best and possibly only wan to do this is to convert it to 29.97 fps going from the original dimensions to 720×480 (letter boxed).
My question is what is the best way to go about doing this? I’m currently exporting it at 25fps from Final Cut as a .mov, then importing again and re-exporting as 29.97 with my dimension changes as well. Then converting for DVD.
Is there a better way to do this?
Thank you.
Mike
“Rage against the Dying of the Light”
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6 Replies
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Hi Mike,
Just drop your PAL clip in a NTSC sequence (keeping the same aspect ratio) and apply the Nattress “Standard Conversion”.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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ok, so I’m trying to do what you told me to do. but I’m unsure of what option to use in standards conversion. I have a list of options.
Any more help would be amazing.
Thank you
“Rage against the Dying of the Light”
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Hi Mike,
If your PAL movie is 16×9, you can export a 16×9 NTSC. You don’t need to export letter-boxed. PAL and NTSC have different number of lines, but the pixels shape is also different, so in the end they are 4×3 or 16×9. You catch me?In the page 5 of the Nattress Standard Conversion Instructions you have everything step by step:
Set your “Easy Set-up” to DV NTSC Anamorphic.
Open a new sequence. Will be DV NTSC.
Drop your PAL Anamorphic clip in the NTSC sequence.
Drop the “Standard Converter” and set the parameters.
Drop again the PAL clip in the filter well.
I would recommend you, even if your PAL clip is DV, to render in 8b Uncompress or so.
Just be careful of the field order. You can export a 8b Unc NTSC movie “Lower-first” to bring to Compressor.
This is not a problem as long as Compressor knows the proper field-order of the clip you are importing.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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Sorry to get in on this thread but unless I am missing something very simple all I see is a black screen when I try and play back the converted clip? I just got this program so I can convert 32 PAL commercials to NTSC and it just aint working…?? help.. please… ?
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Sorry to get in on this thread but unless I am missing something very simple all I see is a black screen when I try and play back the converted clip? I just got this program so I can convert 32 PAL commercials to NTSC and it just aint working…?? help.. please… ?
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Natasha, did you solve this issue? And if so, what was your end work flow?
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