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Bringing PAL DVD into Final Cut without quality loss or “strobing?”
Basically, we’re trying to bring in a PAL DVD into Final Cut, for a final desired output of NTSC …
Currently we’re bringing it in w/ DVDxDVPro (have tried a few compression schemes there), then we transcode it to NTSC, but the resulting product has strobing (jittering).
This is not fixed by yet another filter, which helps diminish the strobing somewhat, but then lessens the overall quality (looks like VHS).Any ideas for us?
Thx!“Scratching could not make it worse, and t’were such a face as yours were.”
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How I would do it?
Transcoding from the DVD to a QT movie (.mov), with MPGStreamclip. But I would transcode to 8b Uncompress PAL.
I would make some color treatement in FC and Chroma resampling and then send to Compressor to get the Qt movie in 8b NTSC. Compressor can transcode very well from PAL to NTSC but really slow if you set for high quality (manual control frame).
With the retiming options of Shake you can get very good results as well.
The strobing is normal when you pass from NTSC to pal because you are jumping one in every frames. But from PAL to NTSC you are inserting inbetween frames.
Salud,
Rafael
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