ntsc to pal in FCP4.5

[Shane Ross]

The Standards Converter at http://www.nattress.com is the most recommended.

[Dave Chalmers]

Hi there,

I just had the same situation in reverse – PAL project looking for NTSC DVD to send to US. There is no way to do it properly within FCP4.5
(of course DVDSP4 will do it for MPEG2 apparently….once it arrives, but my client couldn’t wait!!)

I confess I was rather hesitant about the whole thing, but stumped up for the Nattress filter in any case and followed the instructions and managed to create a pair of identical DVDs in PAL and NTSC.

Image quality seems fine – my source material started on SVHS so it wasn’t the best testcase, but I didn’t notice any major difference between the PAL DVD and the NTSC DVD once the MPEG2 compressor had trampled all over them!!

Also rendering took a while, but I was on a slow machine.

P.S. I was running on FCP 3.0.

Hope this helps

Dave

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[Graeme Nattress]

Thanks Dave!

As for Compressor 2 – Apple didn’t really have it set up to demo at NAB, so I couldn’t see what it was like or what the rendering times are like, but if it’s anything like any other technology that is doing full motion adaption it won’t just be slow, it’ll be glacial.

Just the other day, I had another user do a convert using my software and preferred the results to the same conversion done on a Snell & Wilcox Alchemist and Ukon, so I think there’s still life left in my Standards Converter. I’m working on new quality improvements now, and it will do much better HD to SD downconvesion too.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP