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PAL formatting
Hi everyone
i need to make a PAL DVD of a project I made in NTSC format, and I’m not sure about the sequence settings i should use. it’s for a festival so i don’t want to mess up.
I’m running FCP 6.0
i’m guessing the frame size should be CCIR 601 / DV PAL (5:4) and the pixel aspect ratio should be PAL – CCIR 601 (720×576)
editing time base ????
compresor (for quicktime video settings) DV-PALdoes that sound right?
thanks
martha
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2 Replies
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Hi Martha,
Time Base: 25fps.
Your specs are correct.
I would recommend you don’t export your PAL movie as DV. Is already NTSC DV and in the process of transcoding to PAL the picture will suffer. If you export to DV PAL will suffer more than if you export as 8b Unc or Proress.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
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Or use Graeme Natress’ Standards Converter.
It’s an FCP plugin, which does an excellent job converting from either PAL or NTSC. I have done tests with both this plugin and using Compressor’s Advanced Format Conversion.
Compressor was a little faster in the rendering, when using the standard settings, but Graeme’s plugin, in my opinion, looked better.
On the other hand, Compressor can give a better result than Graeme’s plugin if you set all the parameters to their highest settings, but your render could take about 40 times longer.
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