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Creating An NTSC DVD From PAL Footgae
Hi there,
I’ve edited a large project (98 mins) in Vegas that was shot in PAL and I need to get it on a regular 4.7MB DVD in NTSC format.
If I render straight to MPEG 2 from Vegas the file is too large and Architect won’t let me adjust the size. So…
I’ve been rendering from Vegas as an AVI with a PAL DV template. Architect then let’s me fit the AVI file to disc (presumably by compressing it further) and I can also choose to author the DVD in NTSC format). Architect compresses the AVI from around 7.3MB to around 4.3MB with a bit rate of 5.6Mbps.
The problem is that I’m getting a lot of interlace flicker on the final DVD and the overall quality is poor (I know quality will be poorer because of the extra compression but previous, similar projects haven’t been as bad).
Question:
Would it make a difference rendering the AVI in Vegas with an NTSC template rather than PAL? Any other settings in Vegas I can use to make the conversion better?
BTW, checking the ‘reduce interlace flicker’ option in Architect (when navigating to the imported AVI file) reduces the overall quality and actually seems to make the flicker worse!
Many thanks for any help you can give.
Phil.
P.S. the NTSC DVD is for our American customers – we are scared of getting lots of returns from people with older players that won’t accept PAL. -
4 Replies
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[Philip Davies] “Architect compresses the AVI from around 7.3MB to around 4.3MB with a bit rate of 5.6Mbps.”
Why don’t you just render an NTSC DVD complaint MPEG2 file from Vegas using 5.6Mbps as the bit rate. That should solve your problem.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
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Thanks for the suggestion John. I guess I need to get the Pro version of Vegas as the ‘custom’ buttom next to all MPEG 2 templates is greyed out in Movie Studio Platinum – so I can’t alter the bit rate.
I did find that rendering the PAL footage to an NTSC AVI in Vegas (and then authoring to NTSC in Architect) results in a noticeably better picture and no interlace flicker – compared with rendering to a PAL AVI in Vegas and then authoring/converting to NTSC in Architect.
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..I recommend make the render to mpeg 2 NTSC 24p DVD architect template… better conversion (and better looking final result) from 25 fps PAL movie….
my 2 cents
Enrique Orozco R.
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[Enrique Orozco] “..I recommend make the render to mpeg 2 NTSC 24p DVD architect template… better conversion (and better looking final result) from 25 fps PAL movie….”
Yea, that’s probably not a bad idea. I would try both and see which one you like better. If not, rendering to NTSC AVI is definitely the better workflow for use with DVD Architect if you can’t adjust the MPEG2 bit-rate.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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