Converting from NTSC to PAL produces stuttering

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Converting from NTSC to PAL produces stuttering

Posted by Jean Deraps on February 8, 2006 at 4:46 am

Hello everyone,
I am presently trying to render out a project to PAL from a 23.98 progressive anamorphic project, captured with 2:3:3:2 pulldown from a Panasonic DVX-100a camera. While I have a moderate amount of experience rendering out NTSC for DVDs here in Canada, this is the first time I am trying to render out to PAL.

I am exporting out to compressor using what I believe to be the correct PAL settings, choosing the highest quality settings whenever possible. However, I obtain an .m2v file as well as a final DVD in which the video stutters.

Are there any details of which I should be aware to make sure I will get the best quality possible, without the annoying stuttering I’ve been getting. The NTSC version DVDs I’ve made, great and are free of any stuttering.

I am currently using the latest incarnation of Final Cut Pro Studio, with all of the latest updates on a G5 quad.

Thank you in advance

Jean D

Bdr replied 20 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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Shane Ross
February 8, 2006 at 4:58 am

Standards Converter…from http://www.nattress.com.

Best converter out there.

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net
Bryce Whiteside
February 8, 2006 at 7:05 am

And…
Video jutters
Audio stutters

Inquiring mind…
Bryce Whiteside

Don’t worry Mr. B. I have a cunning plan…

PowerBook 1.67 Ghz ATI 9700 128 MB 2 GB
Final Cut Pro HD
DVD Studio Pro 3
Motion
Graeme Nattress
February 8, 2006 at 2:38 pm

Not in this particular case….

Use Cinema Tools to “conform” the 23.98fps to 25fps, scale up the video in FCP in a PAL timeline and then make the PAL DVD from that.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
Bdr
February 8, 2006 at 3:00 pm

Two things will need to be done:

1. change frame rate from 24p to 25p.
2. change frame size from 720×480 to 720×576.

It makes no sence to use any kind of standards conversion since you’re working in 24p. Just save your sequence using Export -> Quicktime Movie. Open the clip in Cinema Tools and conform it to 25p. This will speed up your footage by 4%.

Next, frame resize. You can use either Final Cut Pro or Compressor. In Final Cut Pro, select the DV PAL anamorphic easy setup. Create a new sequence. Go to sequence settings and set Field dominance to none. Set Motion Filtering Quality to Best. Import your clip into the sequence. Go to the motion tab and change scale to 120 and aspect ratio to 20. Export this sequence to Compressor.

If you want to use Compressor for the resize, duplicate the MPEG 2 setting you want to use. Change the video format parameter from Automatic to PAL on the encoder panel and change the Resize filter from Fast to Best on the Frame Control panel. Process the clip you got in step 1 with this setting.

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