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25fps PAL & 29.97 NTSC on one timeline > best method for final 29.97 export?
Hi everyone,
I have a mix of PAL & NTSC footage on one timeline. The PAL footage is 25FPS – sized to fit into the NTSC frame size. The other footage is 29.97. Initial exports as ‘NO FIELD’ progressive mpeg2 (DVD) seems to be looking ok. I came into this project 1/2 through; if converting the AVIs to NTSC then reloading into the project is what I have to do – I’ll do it. But if someone has a better or similar method; please let me know. There is a remote chance that I might need this footage for export to beta / digbeta etc.
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Use Procoder to convert from PAL to NTSC and then edit.
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I was thinking that’s what I was going to have to do 🙂
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So I suppose my second question is: what’s the best setting to convert this PAL 16×9 footage to NTSC? Normally, when say I convert MPEG2 files (evil, time consuming process btw) – I’ll change the frame size, then do a Pulldown on the footage so that it matches NTSC. Procoder keeps giving me some ‘ghosts’ (which could be in the original footage, but I doubt).
ideas?
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That’s from field blending. You might also try DVFilm Atlantis which uses an entirely different method for PAL/NTSC conversions. There is a free demo at https://dvfilm.com/atlantis
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If anyone finds this thread in a search. Here’s what I went through to convert 25 FP 16×9 DV footage to 4:3 NTSC AVI. This is off the top of my memory; double check your work if you choose to use this …
get VirtualDub (free, open source)
Open your file –
Go to Video > Frame Rate
* Check ‘keep audio / video same length’ (or something like that)
* check ‘new FPS – enter 29.97’* Filter > add filter
– resize
– 720 x 380 (for this project)
– output 720 x 480; letterboxed.I added a crop on this in the filter menu as well – 4px on the top and bottom (got rid of a flicker from the conversion).
Good Luck.
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