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Pal Conversion
I have some Pal footage which I’d like to look as good as possible in my NTSC project. I tried various software conversion and none worked well. I took the stuff to a posthouse and they did a hardware conversion. However, the conversion is still jerky when the camera is panned.
Anything else I should consider?
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7 Replies
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If you have FCP I would check out Nattress’s Standards Conversion plug-in.
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Thanks.
Should have mentioned I am on Premiere Pro CS2. I have heard about the Natress plug-in…. I have gone through a lot of converters on the Windows side.
I always thought that hardware conversion was in any case better than software conversion…but this is far from perfect.
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I think you really need to get it converted at a facility who has something like and Alchemist Platinum
standards converter. These converters are quite expensive and will work much better for you than any software method you’re trying. -
Thanks Greg. I did get it converted at one of the leading post houses here in Seattle. And it was a hardware conversion.
I was surprised that it was not much better than the freeware converters I tried. I understand that top of the line converters are Wilcox & Snell.
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Have you tried a Procoder conversion ?
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Cheapest and best quality I’ve gotten converting through software was with TMPGEnc Xpress
https://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html#tabs
Vince Becquiot
Director | EditorKaptis Studios
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For converting Pal to NTSC you may want to try the demo of DVfilm Atlantis. It will convert Pal to NTSC and NTSC to Pal.
Hope this is helpful,
Dave
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