Pulsing image when converting Pal to NTSC

[Roberto De jesus]

I take the QT and make a composition of it by drag and drop to the film strip looking icon on the project window.

I open then the composition settings window and change the PAL D1/ DV to NTSC D1.

I go to the Composition viewer and transform it to “Fit to Comp”

I drag the comp to the render window and is there where I set it for Animation codec/44.1 khz on the Lossless pulldown window. Under Best Setting/Time Sampling Pull down I just set it to 29.97 FPS and do not render any fields. (I don’t want it interlaced)

I select the target destination and hit Render.

I’m sure I’m missing a crucial step…

R

[Walter Soyka]

You could just turn frame blending on. Traditional frame blending will err on the soft side; pixel motion will err on the globby side. As Dave mentions, there are third-party tools which offer more control.

Andrew Kramer released a frame rate converter a couple years ago, but I’ve never used it myself.

Walter Soyka
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[Roberto De jesus]

I was pretty sure I was being a bit naive on the PAL to NTSC conversion being that easy.

But thanks for your patience…

R

PS

and YES! they are anything BUT free — ugh! — re-budget

[Walter Soyka]

[Roberto De Jesus] “YES! they are anything BUT free — ugh! — re-budget”

If you are going to re-budget anyway… send the footage to a post house with an Alchemist or a Teranex to do the standards conversion the right way.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Roberto De jesus]

I think I might go the Alchemist way cuz Kramer’s software is off the budget cap as well.

Thanks so much though.

Great help!

First time trying this site out and really happy with the outcome.

R

[Chris Wright]

actually going from a 25 fps to a 29.97 de-interlaced is hard because you’re going from 50 fields down to 29.97 frames.

A free solution is to timewarp pixel motion at 50%, precomp that then timestretch the precomp 50%. Then simply render out without any stutter.

And don’t forget to have output module set to NTSC color!

here’s an example ae cs3 aep that will fix framerate, color profiles, and size.

https://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UZM6MBH

https://technicolorsoftware.hostzi.com/