Converting DVCPRO HD 720p50 to SD NTSC

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Converting DVCPRO HD 720p50 to SD NTSC

Posted by Andrei Bocharnikov on March 30, 2010 at 6:19 pm

I am getting difficulties to convert HD (PAL based) footage to SD NTSC for DVD authoring. I was trying to use Apple Compressor for that but resulting video is kind of jumpy and looks like skipping frames every second. It is quite visible on parts of video where objects are constantly moving. I can not find any other solution on Mac. QuickTime conversion is also very strange. Whatever codec I use (Animation, Photo-JPEG, DVCPRO50…) it makes nice video but with 25 FPS framerate… I can not understand why.

Please let me know what is the best way to convert my DVCPRO HD 720p50 to SD NTSC

thank you in advance for any suggestion or help,

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.8, QT 7.6.4, FCS3

Mike Simpson replied 15 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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Mike Simpson
August 9, 2010 at 3:29 pm

Hi Andrei,

Did you ever resolve your problems with converting HD PAL to SD NTSC?
I’m interested I need to do the same conversion with a couple of projects.
If you have any valuable information I’d be very glad to hear it.

Mike
Andrei Bocharnikov
August 10, 2010 at 4:51 pm

Yes, Mike.

I used Apple Compressor to first convert my DVCPRO HD 720p50 footage to DVCPRO HD 720p24 (preset in Compressor). Important to use frame controls tab in the inspector window. My settings was:

Frame controls: On
Resize Filter: Best
Output fields: Progressive
Rate Conversion: Better (Motion Compensated)
Set duration to: 100%

Result was satisfying for me and Producer. No jumping or double frames. Just sometimes I can notice artifacts when watching frame by frame but it is not visible during normal playback.

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.8, QT 7.6.6, FCS3
Andrei Bocharnikov
August 10, 2010 at 4:54 pm

Then I put resulting video to Compressor again and use preset “DVD: best quality 90 min”

MacPro Dual Quad 2.8 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM, Leopard 10.5.8, QT 7.6.6, FCS3
Mike Simpson
August 10, 2010 at 8:01 pm

Thanks for that Andrei,

I’ll have to give that a go on a sample to see how it looks with our footage.

We’ve just done a straight conversion from 720P50 HDV quicktime to MPEG2 for DVD but NTSC. It’s a little “stuttery” but not sure that the product demands a better conversion right now.

(I know that’s slightly different to your transcode as you seem to have “real” HD rather than our HDV but I think it’ll be worth giving it a go.)

Thanks again,

Mike

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