[Alec Gitelman]

thanks for the advice.

i am a freelance (at this time) editor at the beginning stage of the career and i was wondering if ‘apple certified’ on the resume means anything. guess the answer is just as ambiguous as when i asked. i’ll continue working the books and will get certified if and when it makes sense. definitely not spending time and money on a class.

[Alec Gitelman]

great, thx.

btw. do you know what field order i have to specify if i am converting from the dvd to dvcpro50 ntsc in mpeg streamclip?

[Alec Gitelman]

Thanks, Shane. Will try.

Question: is there any sense in trying to go for a better quality transfer from dvd, perhaps to dvcpro50? especially since i’ll have to recompress again and put the finished product on another dvd.

p.s. dvd is legal.

[Alec Gitelman]

that was perfect. thank you.

[Alec Gitelman]

do you recommend conforming the 23.98 frame rate to 25 to go to PAL? Or just doing a standards conversion? Do I edit in HD and then downconvert to each of the SD standards?

[Alec Gitelman]

frame size – that was a mistake transcoding to sorensen 3.

thank you very much.
i’ll keep experimenting.

[Alec Gitelman]

put it in the wrong post 🙂

can you take a look at these?

https://maxf.net/~alichek/ConversionComp/

so far i feel i’m getting the better result going to PAL from NTSC from your converter than from Compressor (in general smoother motion, not the first project doing this). But it seems to work properly only with DV. I would like to make it work with higher quality image. Maybe it’s a general FCP issue I think, because I cannot make render in Animation or None without completely ruining the picture.

btw., compressor switches to upper field first order when converting to pal uncompressed 4:2:2. is upper field first a default for PAL? should i be switching to that?

Thank you very much for your help.
Alec.

[Alec Gitelman]

can you take a look at these?

https://maxf.net/~alichek/ConversionComp/

so far i feel i’m getting the better result going to PAL from NTSC from your converter than from Compressor (in general smoother motion, not the first project doing this). But it seems to work properly only with DV. I would like to make it work with higher quality image. Maybe it’s a general FCP issue I think, because I cannot make render in Animation or None without completely ruining the picture.

btw., compressor switches to upper field first order when converting to pal uncompressed 4:2:2. is upper field first a default for PAL? should i be switching to that?

Thank you very much for your help.
Alec.

[Alec Gitelman]

problem is i don’t have a pal monitor to check. all i can do is burn a dvd and stick it into a multisystem dvd player to watch on an ntsc monitor. so i am in a sense, flying blind, and wasting a lot of time in the process. unfortunately that’s the only method available at the moment.

[Alec Gitelman]

I’m comparing the quicktimes side by side. Uncompressed shows fields, possibly flipped, compared to dv which doesn’t. I’m not talking about progressive, it’s just messing up the image. In fact, unless I stick to DV, my overall image quality suffers. But I would like to keep the graphics crisp.

This has to go to DVD, preferably today.

Right now I’m trying to export to MPEG2 PAL straight out of NTSC timeline using Compressor. I will compare it to MPEG2 created from PAL DV conversion that I did earlier. The better one will go to the client.

Yet, I am very concerned.

Alec.