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23.98 – PAL
Hi all
Forgive my ignorance here but I’ve been sent something I just don’t know what to do with. It is a 10-bit Uncompressed, 720×486 (so NTSC), 23.98 fps Quicktime movie. All I need to do is put it onto PAL digibeta.
I have tried converting it to 10bit Uncompressed PAL in Compressor but I get jitters in the video.
I have never come across 23.98 before. My client tells me it was shot at this framerate, on film. I always thought film was 24 fps? Is this a US thing I haven’t come across before?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
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5 Replies
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23.98fps is the correct video rate for 24p, because NTSC is 29.97fps not 30.00fps. To convert to PAL is easy!
Open the movie in Cinema Tools. Hit “conform” and select 25fps.
Now take the movie to FCP and scale it up to PAL dimensions, render, and play out to tape!
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Nope, that didn’t work. Or, it did, but it’s just running faster rather than having converted to a different format.
And when I convert in compressor, it stutters.
Any ideas?
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But by making “film” run 4% faster is how it gets converted to PAL, and the same applies to 24p video too. Doing as I describe will produce the best quality conversion to PAL.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Yeah but the pitch changes too in this conversion, and for film I’m sure there is a way – although I don’t know what or how expensive it is – of keeping the pitch the same so that people don’t sound too shrill.
I’m going to try converting to NTSC and then from that to PAL. I’ll compare the two and post the results here. Apparently the reason for shooting 23.98 instead of 24 is for easier conversions to NTSC so although I am going an extra generation away from the original I’m hoping it sorts out the pitch problem.
It might not be such an issue for dialogue but this is a music promo and I just know it will come back to bite me if it sounds any different
Cheers for your help though,
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Ah, I see. Music videos are tough.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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