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  • pal to ntsc conversion in compressor

    Posted by Mark Shea on November 3, 2008 at 1:43 am

    I have found a solution as to how to convert pal to ntsc without motion artifacts, artifacts in still images and pulsing in high noise or low action shots.

    Export movie directly from fcp to compressor

    Choose Advanced Format Conversion – dv ntsc

    Go to the inspector window, and in the encoder pane, click on video settings and change scan mode to – Progressive ( this gets rid of motion artifacts)

    Go to Frame Control Pane and set Frame controls to on. Using the Standard default settings will lead to fast processing time, changing settings to better or best will lead to a long, long wait (83 hrs for best setting on my macbook pro)

    When the processing is complete, put your ntsc movie back in compressor, choose the 90 minute best quality dvd setting, change gop setting from 15 to 7 ( this stops any pulsing of image in certain shots) I also add a noise reduction filter and the sharpen edges filter ( I set it to about 20, as I found the ntsc conversion lead to a softening of image across the project)

    Mark Shea replied 17 years, 9 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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