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PAL HDV to NTSC
Have some HDCAM ftg shot in India in NTSC… but have HDV footage shot in Bangladesh that is in PAL… footage needs to be edited in the same project… wondering the best way to get HDV into my FCP system in NTSC.
Is the only way to do it to get the PAL converted to NTSC somewhere before capturing? Or is there another way?
Thanks
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If it were a few clips, I’d mention http://www.nattress.com (STANDARDS CONVERTER)…but if it is a lot of footage…many many tapes…then it would be advisable to get them properly transferred at a post facility.
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You could also capture the pal hdv footage
and convert it with compressor. Set the frame rate, frame size and motion compensation settings to highest quality. It will probably take 3 times as long as realtime so an hour of footage will take 3 to convert.I recently did this with 16 hours of PAL DV, works very well.
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What is the frame rate of the HDV? If it’s 25 then you can capture it as PAL, open up the Quicktime files in Cinema Tools, and conform them to 23.98. Then it will play nice on any NTSC sequence.
Conforming just alters the speed. There is no rendering involved whatsoever, so it is an instant process.
Cinema Tools may not allow conforming for HDV. Test a small clip first. If it doesn’t, then convert it to ProRes first.
Sean
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The frame rate is 50i… so 25fps… it’s not progressive… does that make a difference? Should I transcode it to 60i or change it to 23.98 still?
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If it’s 25fps then it shouldn’t matter if it’s 50i or not. Try a short test clip in Cinema Tools. This way you can work with progressive video without any duplicate frames. A much cleaner workflow so long as the small speed change isn’t a problem.
Sean
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