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Re: Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?

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Re: Best way to convert an authored NTSC DVD to PAL?
by Bouke Vahl on May 16, 2009 at 8:45:07 am

Another vote for 'no need at all to go PAL'.
My last international project was done in NTSC only, while i'm in Pal land, just for the better compatibility.
Do not think that using desktop tools for transcoding will make 29.97 video better looking.
If it was 23.976 or 24 you could speed up to 25, and have a better image, but NTSC interlaced to Pal is very difficult.
There are magic recepies how to do it with Compressor, but in practice, this only works for very short pieces. You get crashes, render time will kill you (think 40 times RT at least) and you need a lot of trial and error to get it right.

If it's not up to you to decide if a pal version is needed or not, and you have a budget, go out to a facility that has a Snell & Wilcox hardware box and let them do the conversion.



Bouke

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