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Integrating PAL footage with NTSC
Questions, questions… I always have questions.
Client wants to integrate PAL archival footage into DV project (a documentary — most of which is shot at 29.97 and some shot at 23.98 — now don’t yell at me… I’m only the editor)
I’m looking for the best “non-hardware” way of accomplishing this. Graeme Nattress’ frame converter filter in FCP? Cinema Tools to conform the PAL footage?? JES Delinterlacer for the standards conversion??? Good old Compressor????
As always… any help is greatly appreciated!
— Sue
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5
2.5 GB DDR SDRAM
GFX: ATI Radeon 9650Mac OS 10.4.11
Final Cut Studio 2
FCP 6.0.2 Compressor 3.0.2 Motion 3.0.2 DVDSP 4.2.1 -
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De-interlace some critical scenes of that PAL footage and look at it in 25p.If that looks good, you can use Cinema Tools to conform it down to 23.98, which is quick and great quality. After all, you’ll have NTSC footage with the same temporal look.
If not, you have the choice of using Nattress’ filters (faster, good) or Compressor (better in some cases, but very slow).
Regards,
Uli
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Thanks, Uli.
So… you feel the best (non-hardware) results would be gained by de-interlacing the footage prior to conforming in Cinema Tools, right? Then, the second choice would be the Nattress filters?
Out of curiosity, if using the Nattress filter, would you still de-interlace the footage prior to applying the filter?
— Sue
Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5
2.5 GB DDR SDRAM
GFX: ATI Radeon 9650Mac OS 10.4.11
Final Cut Studio 2
FCP 6.0.2 Compressor 3.0.2 Motion 3.0.2 DVDSP 4.2.1 -
If the so-called “film-look” is appropriate, yes, use a good de-interlacer for 25p and slow it down to 23.98p with CT.
If you go Nattress, you don’t need to de-interlace, his filter is taking care of it and you even have the choice of re-interlacing in NTSC or going to progressive frames.
Regards,
Uli
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Thanks for the info.
— Sue
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