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Need to know the best way to covert PAL DV to NTSC DV
I work at a commercial/music video production company. I just received a drive that has about 50 PAL DV music videos on it. They are 720 x 576. What I need to do is convert them to NTSC DV and then compress them, with the end result being a DVD Studio Pro DVD. What is the best way to do the conversion? Should I use compressor? Should I render it out in FCP? I have a company that says they can lay it to Digi and then capture as NTSC. I am trying to keep the costs down on this, so I don’t want to do that unless it absolutely looks the best. Any suggestions?
I have FCP 5.0, compressor 2.0 and DVD studio Pro 4. I also have Cleaner 6.0
Benton
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5 Replies
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I’ll give three answers:
Best: Hardware tape to tape on a Snell & Wilcox Alchemist
Cheapest: Use my standards conversion filter, at http://www.nattress.com – quality, as many on this forum will attest to, is great.
Slowest: Use compressor, over 35 times slower than the cheapest option above.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Does your filter look as good as compressor?
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In all but the best and slowest mode, does my plugin produce better results than compressor. In compressor’s best mode, it’s slightly better at the expense of that enormous render time difference.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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Is it just advanced format conversions–DV NTSC?
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Yes, but you’ve got to go into it and set everything to best or nearly best quality or the results don’t look too good, and it’s the high quality modes that make for the astronomic render times.
Graeme
– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP
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