[Sloan Warner]

So I suppose my second question is: what’s the best setting to convert this PAL 16×9 footage to NTSC? Normally, when say I convert MPEG2 files (evil, time consuming process btw) – I’ll change the frame size, then do a Pulldown on the footage so that it matches NTSC. Procoder keeps giving me some ‘ghosts’ (which could be in the original footage, but I doubt).

ideas?

[Sloan Warner]

I was thinking that’s what I was going to have to do 🙂

[Sloan Warner]

Thought I’d update on my tests and what I found. Hopefully it will help someone? Perhaps someone has something to add?

Anyhow. I exported my footage captured by premiere as mjpeg footage (what it was when I captured). I set it as upperfield (even though it claims it’s lowerfield). I then import that AVI into encore – when encore transcoded this it looks correct. No M2V I exported from Premiere looked good on a standalone unless I de-interlaced it. I will note – I was cropping the output from premiere …. note sure if this messes up the field order? Perhaps I should have ‘clipped’ instead?

ideas, solutions. Thanks for the replies!

[Sloan Warner]

Thanks for the response. Appreciate it. I had deinterlaced things in the past that were ultimately meant for a computer playback – definitely a choice on which way you want the motion to look.

For telling if the field order is correct, how would you notice on a monitor? Should there be no obvious signs if the video was exported proper?

Thanks,

S.