PAL HDV for NTSC DVD – use compressor? EMERGENCY HELP!!!

[Chris Wyatt]

Hi Lisa
the quickest way would be to simply drop your source PAL HDV clips into an NTSC standard def sequence
in Final Cut Pro 6 and then export as normal to compressor for your NTSC DVD. If you had more time you could transcode the clips with compressor to standard definition NTSC and then edit NTSC native within Final Cut Pro 6. If you had even more time you could transcode them with a Teranex converter to preserve field integrity. I suggest avoiding transcode to any Intermediate codec like ProRes without a lot of time to check field integrity. Go straight to NTSC from your PAL HDV material. FYI all HDV material is upper field dominant and NTSC is lower field dominant.

Hope this helps

[Lisa Rolley]

ok well i have 2 quicktimes which are PAL
1 is 720×576 25 FPS h.264
the 2nd is says in quicktime that it is 1024×576 but in fcp it says its 720×576.

i just ran through compressor using a custom setting which was the following:

animation ntsc – frame size same as source – the result looks awful and i use better for motion estimation in compressor. it made both of them 720×576 so the larger resoltuion file looks squished and they playback looks all jittery and messed up. these both are trailers which need to go on a playable dvd by this afternoon and i fear i am running out of time to make the deadline.

please anyone help i will even call you if need be : ) to get this done

thanks
Lisa