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NTSC to PAL
I wasn’t sure where to post this so I thought I start here.
Heres the deal. I have a client that needs a very quick convertion of a promo DVD from NTSC to PAL. All we can get our hands on are the MPEG 2 files that the NTSC version was made from. Is there a means to convert them without destroying the quality?The original DVD was authored in DVD SP and we have that file as well.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
~John
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2 Replies
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You need to convert the MPG2 to something that can be read by something like FCP or AfterEffects. The lower the compression the better. Both FCP and AfterEffects do pretty good job on NTSC to PAL conversion or vice versa.
There’s no way to do the conversion without loss since it involves both re-timing and scaling. Starting off with MPG2 is pretty bad but it’s not hopeless.
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Hi Jhon,
Have a look in Google for MPGStreamclip is free. You can convert your MPG in few other formats. But if you have to transcode it to PAL, as Johan says, youbetter convertit in a QT movie (.mov). I recommendo you DVCPro50 (DV50) or 8b Uncompress. They are 422 codecs and although MPG2 are 420, like that you can keep all that the DVD has to offer. With a more compressed codec the picture will suffer more.
To convert it to PAL you can use Compressor although to get the job well done can take a lot of time. Is what happens with Compressor when you set “Frame control” to Custom.
I ‘ve never used it but there are many Cow people using the Natress Standar Conversion plugin in FC. Everybody says that the qualiti is amazing andis quite fast. I heard of some people using to convert NTSC-PAL the same MPGSTreamclip, and also with very positives results.
Cheers,
Rafael
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