ntsc to pal conversion

[Ron Shook]

Sameer,

[Sameer Shrivastava] “If you happen to have a dual head video display card with tv out function( Matrox g550 or nvidia 6600 etc). Then choose PAL as the out put format of the secondry monitor out.( You will get under display settings –> advanced settings) the secondry monitor might have an composite, s-video or component out. Use this out to feed to you PAL camera or recorder.( You need to use dvd max settings on g550 or video mirroring on secondry display on others.”

Interesting! Can’t be the quality of the software encode, but sounds like a great “quick & dirty” for some things. Did you figure this out on your own?

Ron Shook

[Sameer Shrivastava]

Hi,
Yes, i discovered this almost 3-4 years back when i was experimenting with tv out of my cheap nvidia dualhead card. the quality is unexpectedly very very good.May be depends on graphic card to car. Just remember to keep the flicker filter to minimum.(default is somewhere in middle). This will show increased flicker for desktop on tv but video output will be best. if you need quality use component or s-video out. You really dont loose quality on conversion as you may loose on cheap hardware conversion.(Otherwise tmpeg option is fine). Any way I guess the original footage discussed here is dv. You dont loose also on timing 1 min of footage on any format will be 1 min.
I use this feature mostly to convert ntsc to PAL.
sameer shrivastava