PAL dvd looking good, NTSC dvd looking horrible

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PAL dvd looking good, NTSC dvd looking horrible

Posted by Andrew Thomson on September 27, 2005 at 12:21 am

Hi,

I have PAL DV video edited in FCP HD for use on both PAL and NTSC DVD’s. The export Mov’s from FCP HD go through Compressor where they are compressed into both PAL and NTSC .mpv’s. The two encodes are made from the same Mov file. The DVD projects are authored in Scenarist. The PAL encodes once made into a DVD are fine, but the NTSC ones jerk along quite badly on the pans and zooms, and have serious interlacing going on.

Should I be looking to fix settings in FCP HD or Compressor? Playing around with Deinterlacing on particular shots in the FCP edit, and/or swapping other sequence settings do not seem to make much difference to the eventual NTSC DVD video.

In FCP HD the settings are pretty much default for PAL, CCIR601 / DV PAL 5:4, with Safe RT. The Movs are exported as ‘Current Settings’.

The encoder settings are as follows:

Name: NTSC
Description: 5Mbps,2-Pass VBR,4:3, filters
File Extension: m2v
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: 1.125
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Bottom first
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 8 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
Noise Removal
Apply To: All Channels
Iterations: 1
Algorithm: Replace
Sharpen Edge
Amount: 0.000000
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Name: PAL
Description: 5Mbps,2-Pass VBR,4:3
File Extension: m2v
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 576
Pixel aspect ratio: 0.938
Crop: None
Frame rate: 25
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Bottom first
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 8 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 12, Structure: IBBP

I know its going to have some kind of quality change going from PAL to NTSC, but there must be a way to make a better image than this! 🙂 Any suggestions?
Thankyou in advance.

hybridyak

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Jerry Hofmann replied 20 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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Jerry Hofmann
September 27, 2005 at 2:32 pm

You need the Nattress plugin with FCP HD… it will do a dandy standards conversion, and then compressed the NTSC version the way you are… works great! https://www.nattress.com

Jerry

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