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DV PAL into NTSC playable DVD? PLEASE HELP!!
I have a client who needs an NTSC Playable DVD made by Monday for a film market event and the 2 trailers that need to go on this DVD are from FCP6 time lines that are DV PAL – another editor apparently gave it a go and the resulting DVD has “jagged edges” and looks awful according to the producer. When i gave it a try a while back there was stuttering playback but i started with less-than high res qt’s.
Sequence ONE is DV PAL 25fps
lower fields
AnamorphicSequence TWO is the same thing except NOT anamorphic checked
I want to know the best work flow from FCP / Compressor into DVDSP going from from PAL DV into an NTSC for DVD – i have tried using compressor but there was a weird jittery / stuttery playback issue when i encoded the resulting NTSC movie file in compressor and authored it in DVDSP; a while back – ultimately because we were under a time constraint i just made PAL DVD’s for them. Now i want to get at the heart of the problem and figure out why the playback is messed up.
Am i transcoding from PAL DV to NTSC incorrectly in compressor? My settings seemed correct on that first attempt but maybe someone can tell me there recommended compressor setup for doing this. Is it happening when I make the DVD files out of the transcoded movies? I need help fast gentlemen so any help you can provide would really be appreciated.
Thanks and enjoy the weekend friends.
best,
Lisa
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4 Replies
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Hi Lisa,
The first thing you need to get is a good NTSC QT master.
You can use the Compressor Standard Conversion presets (Advanced Format Conversion).
Choose DVCPro50 or better codec.
Don’t do it with DV NTSC.
You need to set Frame Control ON.
Then in “Frame Rate Conversion” choose “Better” or “Best”.
This is the only way to get a good conversion, but the process will be very slow.
Other solution is the Nattress Standard Conversion filter.
rafael -
Hey thanks for the fast response you rock – however when i did a test a while back for them i went this route using uncompressed 8 bit and setting it to best to cook overnight on my work 8-core and the resulting ntsc video file had this jittery frame playback – i never could get down to the bottom of this so we just made PAL dvd’s at the time – BUT now the client really needs NTSC playable DVD’s to showcase the film and I dont know what to do in order to make this work.
In the end what is needed is a playable NTSC DVD with the 2 trailers for this film – i am familiar with DVDSP and all that its just the transcode and encode for DVD that seem to be creating problems.
Any other advice would be great in that i dont know what else to do at this point.
thanks
Lisa
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Hi Lisa,
The “Optic Flow” of Compressor should be the best option, but you can have a try to the Nattress filter. You can download the demo and have a look.
I heard of some people getting good results with MPGStreamclip.
Rafael -
Hi
What are you viewing the NTSC conversions on?
Only a proper NTSC video monitor (or TV) will show the quality of the transcode.The Nattress standards converter gives excellent results, and Graeme Nattress says Compressor can do as good/better, but a lot slower.
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