Please reccommend a good converter software.

[Craig Russillroy]

Download the telestream episode trial. It will convert 20 secs of footage

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MACproo – All the bits and bobs

[Rafael Amador]

[Tony Yarven] “I can’t stand the jagged motion artifacts that happen after I have converted PAL to NTSC using compressor. “
If you are having artifacts I doubt that you had set the “Frame Control ON” in Compressor.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Jay Evs]

thanks,

any advice on what to tweak in frame controls?

Should I export as a prores, or as an m2v for burning to DVD? Will there be any diffence?

Change fields?

Many thanks.

Im experimenting anyways right now, but any more tips would be appreciated.

[Craig Russillroy]

I agree with rafael – I hate to say it but compressor dones the best conversion (software) I have seen – even better then flip factory and rhozet

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MACproo – All the bits and bobs

[Craig Russillroy]

Best results pro res self contained this will avoid any crazy long GOP issues then in compressor play with the frame rate – I am on the way to Brussels on the eurostar so I can’t send you a setting !! Sorry dam you iPhone we need fcs4 on iPhone !

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MACproo – All the bits and bobs

[Rafael Amador]

With the “Frame Control OFF”, Compressor works in 8b and use lineal filters.
When you set it ON, works in 32B Floating Point and uses some of the best filters when resizing, de-interlacing or changing the time-base.
For resizing and time-base managing you should set the BETTER option.
You don’t need to change the field order, whatever the original is.
I would rather make the NTSC MPEG-2 in two steps.
First convert your PAL QT to an NTSC QT movie. In this step you need to set the Frame Control ON.
Then make a double pass MPEG-2 compression. No need of Frame Control ON this time.
This way the process will be faster.
If you try to do it all at once, a “Double Pass” it will take much longer because all the resizing/time-base change process will be done twice.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Arnie Schlissel]

Compressor is really quite good once you learn how to use it properly. If you buy another program for transcoding and conversions, but don’t invest the time and energy to learn to use it you’ll be in the same boat.

Open up Compressor’s PDF manual and print it out and read it. That and some rigorous testing will probably solve your problem.

Arnie
Post production is not an afterthought!
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