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Converting 29.97 fps interlaced material to 25fps
Hi
I have some ntsc material, 29.97fps interlaced. I’m trying to convert it to pal.
I’we been trying to use Compressor to do this but the results are not
as good as I’d like.I have to do 2 conversions, first interlaced to progressive, then I
have to take that file and convert the fps. If I convert both at once
I get some strange lines in the video.Anyone know of how to do this properly using compressor? Or maybe I
should try some other program? I know that my company has a
flipfactory server which I could get access to. Might that do the
trick for me?regards
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7 Replies
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you might want to check out Natress plugins… I’m told they’re pretty good… Or Shake, which does a pretty decent job of conversions.
Joe Haughey
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[JHaughey] “you might want to check out Natress plugins… I’m told they’re pretty good… “
I’ll second this… Nattress Standard Conversion filters are AWESOME! For the money, its a no-brainer when it comes to such an issue. Look here and see:
https://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm
BTW, what version of FCP are you using?
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Wayne Carey
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Nattress is great.
Does your 29.97 footage have a 2:3 pulldown (24P) in it or is it straight 29.97 interlaced?
-Russ
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Sounds like you want to go to 25p progressive. Best way I know to do this is to use my converter to go from 60i to 24p, then take that video to cinema tools, use “conform” to speed it from 24p to 25p, and that looks very good. My converter for NTSC to PAL goes to interlaced PAL which I doubt it what you want.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Great and quick replies!
I tried the Nattress plugin, and did a ntsc > 24p conversion and it looked really good. Not as good as the orginal footage, it was a little bit more detail in it, but the results were more than acceptable.
I’m not sure if this material has a 2:3 pulldown, don’t know how I could check that actually, but since it converted quite smoothly to 24p then I guess it has to be.
btw I have fcp 6.
I’m wondering, since I will be doing allot of these conversions and they can be rather time consuming. Is there a hardware solution out there that does this for me? Something real-time even.
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You might look at DVFilm Atlantis for Mac, it does that same method conversion (60i to 24P, speeding up to 25P) in about 2 minutes per minute on a MacBook core 2 duo. Although that is not real time, it has a batch conversion feature that will process up to 100 clips at once, and you can run it in the background while you use your computer for other things. See https://dvfilm.com/atlantis
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Nope, no 3:2 pulldown if you’ve done it in a 24p timeline.
Due to how FCP works, best thing to do is to convert whole movies, rather than indivisual clips.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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