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NTSC to PAL and SD to HD Upconvert Questions
An unusual project has come our way. We’re producing a half hour doc for European TV. Some of the archival we need is on standard def NTSC DVD, Digbeta and HDCam. We;ve already shot our interviews in 720P/25 HDV with a JVC 250 and ingested into FCP using an IOHD to ProRes 422 (1280×720 25P), The clips are in a ProRes 422 timeline.
I’m looking for a relatively inexpensive way to convert the SD DVD’s and best workflow so that I can bring them into my 720/25P sequence. Should I use my Component DVD player to ingest and upconvert with my IOHD nto FCP and then use something like Nattress Standards Conversion software to make it PAL? Or should I rip my DVD, get the files over to Nattress first and somehow change the newly-made PAL files from SD to HD (maybe with Compressor)?
Thanks ahead of time.
Ashley James
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I’d go with digitizing and upconverting via the iO HD. Then use Nattress or Compressor to do the conversion to PAL. Compressor is a bit cleaner than Nattress if you turn on the Frame Controls and set the resize and retiming controls to better/best…but takes much longer.
You can do it using ripping method but it will be complicated, extremely time consuming, and yield results that won’t look very different.
If you have a shot or two where the quality doesn’t seem good enough, you might try it the ripping way…but otherwise I would use hardware when you can.
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