converting DVD studio pro projects PAL too NTSC, and/or PAL too NTSC video converters
by MARKy j
on
Oct 20, 2005 at 9:12:53 am
howdy
I have built a very large DVD studio Pro project in PAL and need to replicate it in NTSC. is there any way i can do this without rebuilding the whole project again. i have heard from the guy at the apple store rengent street that there is software available that will convert the video footage, which i then just relink to the prgect. is this true and how do turn the project to NTSC.
Re: converting DVD studio pro projects PAL too NTSC, and/or PAL too NTSC video converters by Michael Valletta on Oct 20, 2005 at 4:46:53 pm
I just did the opposite last night (NTSC to PAL) and it's doable, not entirely fun, but doable.
First save your project as another project, same format, to preserve your current project. Second, go to the tracks - not assets - tracks, and delete the video portions, audio can remain. After every piece of video is deleted from every menu and track that uses video (that's where I got hung up - check every folder in the "assets" tab) you can delete your assets. The assets cannot have a "check mark" in the "in use column" or you can't delete them. At this point you can "save as" again and call it your NTSC project. Once that's done you can change the format to NTSC. That's done in the "general" tab of the "disc inspector" when you have selected the "disc" in the "outline" tab. Then of course you must import your NTSC assets, rebuild your tracks, and check it all the way through.
It works, a bit of trial and error, but it works fine. I was dreading rebuilding the project, but it turned out to be relatively harmless.
