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best way to what is PAL and what is NTSC?
hey guys, I have both PAL and NTSC in the same project and I have different sequences in this project,
I didn’t convert any of the PAL to NTSC yet, now that I’ve finished editing the project , I was wondering what is the best way to tell what is PAL or what needs to be converted without having to go to each and every clip to check that ?many thanks
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Create a new bin. Select everything in your timeline and select edit-copy. Open the bin and select edit-paste.
All clips from you timeline are pasted into the bin.
Now make sure your browser in in list view and scroll over to frame size. Click directly on it and it will sort and tell you the clips that are PAL (720×546 or 540) and NTSC (720×486 or 480.)
Now you can do a find in your timeline and it will show you where each clip is.
There are other ways of doing it, but this was the first thing that came to mind.
-Russ
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once you have everything in the bin I would suggest either ordering via the pixel aspect ratio e.g. pal or ntsc or maybe the codec dvpal or dvntsc. this is achieved by clicking on the little arrow on the column for that parameter in the browser
other way is to use command + f and then select a property like codec and type in and ask to find all. then you could drag those clips to a new bin or label them a certain way to highlight in timeline (only useful if you havent used labelling in sequence already though)
another way is to duplicate the sequence. salect all the clips in the sequence and control click and ask to remove attributes, tick to remove everything. the clips that are left with render lines are most likely to be in the opposite codec to the ones the sequence has been set to. this isnt the best way but could leave you with the footage on the timeline. you may have problems with clips that still have speed changes appearing with renders. if wondering what sequence presets are then just control click and ask to see sequence settings or item properties.
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In the future, label all of your PAL (or NTSC) shots before you use them. When I mix PAL into our NTSC projects, first I create a PAL bin so all that material goes in there when digitizing.
Then I label all the clips with a color, usually teal. Then in the timeline I can immediately spot all the clips which are PAL when I’m done with the edit.
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