PAL to NTSC conversion

[Steve Eisen]

Compressor can do it for free.

Nattress plug-in is $99 well spent.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Gary Adcock]

[Steve Eisen] “Compressor can do it for free.”

Steve
yes it can almost give you PAL, but you get exactly what you payed for.

stick with Nattress.

gary

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Sb6755]

Steve,

Thanks. Please excuse my inexperience with FCP as I’m using it for the first time. I’m an old school AVID editor. Do you have the time to walk me through what I’d have to do to make the conversion using compressor? Or can you refer me to an article with instructions?

[Sb6755]

Gary,

Thank you. Where is the best place to get Nattress?

Also are you able to address the second part of my original post. Am I correct in using reverse telecine on the 30 frame material?

[Sb6755]

Steve,

I’ll go for the plug in. Thanks. Where is the best place to get it?

Also, are you able to address the second half of my original post? Am I doing the correct thing by using the reverse telecine tool after capture of 30 frame material?

[Gary Adcock]

[SB6755] “Is it appropriate for me to apply reverse telecine to those clips to enable cutting in the same 23.98 timeline?”

No it will not look correct.

Graeme Nattress makes a standards conversion ( 24 to 25) product also. (nattress.com)

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows

[Sb6755]

Gary,

So how should I handle the capture of my 30frame NTSC footage for cutting in a 23.98 timeline? Should I capture at 29.97 and then use the Nattress to convert it? I though reverse telecine was designed to change NTSC 30 frame to 24 frame.

[Walter Biscardi]

[SB6755] ”
Thank you. Where is the best place to get Nattress?”

http://www.nattress.com

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
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[Steve Eisen]

You always get what you pay, or don’t pay for.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[The Edit doctor]

DO NOT reverse telecine footage shot at 30fps (29.97) to 24fps (23.98). Reverse Telecine is for 24fps material that has had the 3:2 pulldown added to it laying it on a 29.97 tape –

Truly… just get the Nattress Standards Converter from http://www.Nattress.com. Follow the directions you will be taking a 29.97fps clip and converting it to 23.98 clip using interpolation that smoothes out the fields and frames and keeps the runTIME the same. Do this to all those 29.97 clips first then use them in your 23.98 afterwards.

Mike (::[ ]::)