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Converting NTSC project to PAL
by Jamie Worsfold (JamieWorsfold)
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May 14, 2008 at 8:54:00 pm
Hi
Wondering if anyone can help with a problem I seem to have....
A while ago I authored several DVDs for a company which were made as NTSC. All looked good. Nothing else was thought of it...
Anyway, recently they've asked me to make some PAL versions of the same DVDs. "Easy", I thought. The master tapes are PAL (I'm in the UK) so they should look even better (not standards conversion having to be done - hurrah!).
All I need to do is copy the project, change the settings over from NTSC to PAL methinks. Says I can't do so if there's video in the project so I delete the NTSC m2v files, click settings across to PAL and import the PAL m2v files. Put them in the required tracks and build the disc.
Except... there's some very nasty things going on with the fields. Both NTSC and PAL material was captured through a Blackmagic - so lower field for NTSC and upper for PAL. Thats all set correctly when exporting through Compressor. But it looks ugleeee when viewed off DVD.
Anyone got any ideas? I'm pretty stumped. I've tried creating a new PAL project and dropping one of the PAL files into it. No problems there, so the files are fine.
Is DVDSP not allowing me to change completely across to PAL? It appears to be allowing it in the software but obviously there's something wrong when I play the disc back.
Time is tight on this project so I don't really want to have to go back and re-author from scratch if I don't need to.
Thanks!
jamie@jambonfilms.co.uk
Jambon Films
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