PAL to NTSC

[Ed Dooley]

nattress.com Graeme Nattress, who haunts (er, I mean frequents)
the COW has a standards conversion set that works great through FCP.
Compressor does it too. Did you try Googling it or looking at the tools you already have? There are a lot of sites that point you to these (as does the FCP manual) and other solutions.
Ed

[Walter Biscardi]

[Atari Norris] ”
Is there any way to convert PAL footage in FCP 5.1 to NTSC? Please help! Thanks!”

http://www.nattress.com, purchase the Standards Converter for $100. We’ve used it quite a bit and it works great IF YOU READ THE INSTRUCTIONS carefully.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi

[Carsten Orlt]

If you need a broadcast master in NTSC: go to a professional post house which uses one of those boxes which cost $150K or so. I’m not on the latest Mac but for the time it takes to get the same result on the desktop (if at all) it is not worth it!

If you need just copies to send for screeners: I use compressor. Slow, but good results and you can make a preset.
e.g. for DVD delivery Pal to NTSC: duplicate one of the apple presets for DVD encoding (I use the best-120min-16-9-Mpeg2 item in the the folder) / set the encoder/video format to NTSC / switch to frame control and only change the bottom setting for ‘rate conversion’ to ‘good’ (if you choose better then this the time needed really goes up dramatically) / save the setting (was already placed after duplicating into your custom folder).
to burn a proper NTSC DVD export the audio as Dolby2 directly without time change!! using compressor / bring this audio and the converted video into DVDStudio (set to NTSC) and everything is lining up perfectly.

I used this to make screeners for clients and for festivals and never heard any complains!

[Walter Biscardi]

[Cofe] “I’m not on the latest Mac but for the time it takes to get the same result on the desktop (if at all) it is not worth it!”

It’s absolutely worth it using Graeme’s Standards Converter. I’ve delivered two HD documentary broadcast masters which both passed quality control with zero issues using his converter on about 5 minutes worth of material in each episode.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

Read my blog! https://blogs.creativecow.net/WalterBiscardi