1080i PAL to NTSC

[Shane Ross]

No. That means that you need to either send your footage to a dub house and have them run it thru a good high end converter, or if you have a small amount of footage, then you can use the Standards Converter from nattress.com. That isn’t good for like long 20+ min clips, but fine for, as I said, short amounts of footage.

It isn’t a simple thing…this is taking 25fps and trying to eek out 5 extra frames to get to 30fps. And you need conversions that can spread out the frames across fields so that it looks right.

Shane

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[Tel Jaba]

I need to send a viewing copy for a festival!!! and I need to get it ready tonight, I don’t have nattress on this computer, I have compressor and was hoping to use that. so basically what you are saying is that I will not get a good quality result? it is not a short clip, it is a 1 hour movie

[Shane Ross]

Well, you CAN use Compressor…make sure you put all your FRAME settings to BEST. This will take a WHILE, and it will look decent, but not great. YOu can send a few short clips to Compressor to test your settings.

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[Tel Jaba]

well…. I always work with client who’s deadlines are always yesterday!!!!

so, back to the conversion
what would be the format to choose?
1080i 60?

[David Roth weiss]

[Shane Ross] “make sure you put all your FRAME settings to BEST. This will take a WHILE”

Unfortunately it will take so long he’ll never have it ready tonight. Maybe tomorrow morning, but with frame controls on and an 80-min project, I fear he’s in for a very lengthy render.

revised: Oops, I should have said 60-min project…

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[Carsten Orlt]

I would export a reference or self contained Quicktime file from your sequence in FCP.
Then load this file into Compressor.
As for frame size (anamorphic as your master or full frame) it then depends if you want a NTSC DVD or Quicktime file. For the quicktime it also depends what format you want. Can’t suggest anything without further info.
As for the frame rate conversion choose 60i (29.97) and make sure that the frame control tab is set to on and the Rate conversion is set to Better (Frame Blending).
As the other guys mentioned the result is not as good as going through a high end converter but I have send plenty of DVD’s to American festivals (Documentary) and never had a problem. Try it and see if you’re happy with the result. Anything higher than the ‘Better’ setting takes to long to render and the results are not that dramatically better anyway.

Hope this helps.
Cheers

Carsten

[John Pale]

[Carsten Orlt] “As the other guys mentioned the result is not as good as going through a high end converter but I have send plenty of DVD’s to American festivals (Documentary) and never had a problem. Try it and see if you’re happy with the result. Anything higher than the ‘Better’ setting takes to long to render and the results are not that dramatically better anyway. “

“Better” actually works better than “Best” in many cases..and is much quicker. The “Best” settings algorithm works well with problematic shots, but can cause strange artifacts on other footage, from what I have experienced.