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Best way to convert Targa to NTSC mpegs without losing quality?
Hi all. First post here.
Our company showreel DVD is being sent to some people in the states but they are requesting the DVD and such is ALL NTSC format.
We’re an animation company and we deal a lot in Targa sequences, which we then import to Premier Pro (or final cut) and export as mpegs ready to go into the showreel dvd.
As we’re in the UK, we always work in PAL. So everything from the beginning is created in PAL, then the project settings in Premier are PAL and so on.
I need to know the best way to handle our Targa sequences once we want to convert them for an NTSC DVD. With losing as little quality/colour grade as possible. Do we import them to a premier NTSC project? Change some settings with the exports and compression to mpegs, or whatever!
Sorry if that seems a little vague…. hope somebody can help!
Thanks!
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I would personally choose a 23.976 frame per second edit timeline and import the PAL projects…then I would interpret the PAL (25 fps) material to 23.976 fps, which will be better and more accurate motion representation for you. I’d allow the top/bottom crop versus scaling unless there is really critical content on those extreme borders…
Then, you can export that material at that framerate for an NTSC-compatible MPEG2 file. (often used for feature film encoding when shot on film at 24fps)
25fps to 29.97fps conversions are a pain and the motion compromise, particularly for an animation company would be unacceptable in my opinion.
TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,
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