pal to ntsc conversion

[Uli Plank]

Hi Walter,

just out of curiosity: did you upscale for a final product in HD? If so, did you use Shake for that, or one of the plug-ins like ReSizer or InstantHD?

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Meredith Holch]

thanks Walter. One last question is if you know of a site where it gives more info about the G converter filter settings. Specifically, I’ve been advised by another post to de-interlace my footage, which I believe means I should check off the Progressive output box. Then there are choices on De-interlace, which I have set as “Normal”. But I don’t have a clue about what’s correct for the Tolerance, Anti-Alias and Motion Blur settings. If you have any advice, or know of a site where I can inform myself, please let me know.

[Walter Biscardi]

[chokecherry] “One last question is if you know of a site where it gives more info about the G converter filter settings. Specifically, I’ve been advised by another post to de-interlace my footage, which I believe means I should check off the Progressive output box.”

Just look in the manual, it’s pretty straightforward. Only de-interlace if you’re going into a progressive timeline. Otherwise, leave it interlaced.

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

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Uli Plank]

Any change of vertical size – like between 480 and 576 lines

[Meredith Holch]

Thanks Uli, I know very little about de-interlacing, so am i right to set the G converter as “progressive output” and “De-interlac” as normal? Any thing else I should know about the settings?

[Meredith Holch]

Hi Walter, It occurs to me that all along I have been doing your suggestion of a rough edit before converting to Nattress, only I didn’t know I’d need to convert in Nattress. HOWEVER, the whole problem began with my rough edit in a PAL sequence. I was editing along fine for 7 weeks with no problem, just rendering a lot. But when the sequence got about 1 hour 10 minutes long, any insert editing, gap closing etc. began to take a minute or even longer, instead of instantly. I needed to show what I had to my client the next day (of course), so as a work-around, after trashing preferences, making new PAL sequences, dividing my project into smaller projects etc, the one thing that worked was when I copy and pasted the clips into an NTSC sequence (not nested), and then everything went smoothly again. However, now even the NTSC sequence is beginning to do the one minute per insert edit too. (overwrite edits are fine) Have you come across this in your work, since it sounds like you are working in the same way? Also in trouble shooting, I noticed it works OK if I only have one video track, but that is not the case, I have lots of subtitles, in v2, which I need to keep, but this may give you some clue. ( I did not reload FCP 4, because as a test, I connected my harddrives to my desktop which also has FCP4, and the same thing happened, so that did not seem to be the issue.) Any ideas?

[Meredith Holch]

Never mind Uli, I think I get it now. It’s NOT a progressive sequence, but I think you are saying if I set De-interlace to “Normal” G-converter will do the work automatically, Is that correct?

[Walter Biscardi]

[chokecherry] “PAL sequence. I was editing along fine for 7 weeks with no problem, just rendering a lot. But when the sequence got about 1 hour 10 minutes long, any insert editing, gap closing etc. began to take a minute or even longer, instead of instantly.”

Most of that is because you’re working on a G4 laptop which will start choking with very large projects that require lots of rendering.

I’m running a G5 Quad processor with a very fast SATA array and it doesn’t exhibit any of those issues and we have about 15 hours of material we’re working with.

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

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Meredith Holch]

It all comes clear now. Lucky you. Thanks for all your help in the last couple of days.

[Uli Plank]

Yes, if it’s set to normal it will take care of the whole process.
If you set it to progressive output, it’ll not re-interlace.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.