PAL to NTSC dubs

geoffreymee wrote on 11/15/2002, 10:21 PM
I have a PAL project of 11.5 minutes and need to make dubs in both PAL and NTSC.
The PAL is all covered but I'm not familiar with doing NTSC dubs from a PAL program.

I gather I need to rerender to NTSC and print to tape using an NTSC VHS recorder. Is that all there is to it or am I missing something.
Are there any specific buttons or procedures I need to know about to sucessfully carry this out.

I could go to a dubbing house but the quality I have bought in the past is not great so I would prefer to try it inhouse.

Any insight is appreciated.
Geoffrey

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 11/15/2002, 11:34 PM
Unfortunately, it's not nearly as simple as just rendering your PAL project using an NTSC preset. Besides the obvious frame rate differences, there are image resizing issues which are complicated by the fact that the video is interlaced. The Canopus Procoder software does a pretty credible job of conversion, but it's a tad pricey.

John
PhilStorm wrote on 11/16/2002, 4:01 AM

"Unfortunately, it's not nearly as simple as just rendering your PAL project using an NTSC preset..."


Hang on, it is possible to convert PAL to NTSC, it's as simple as this: Capture & edit your PAL video then go to "Render as" select NTSC DV & then select "Custom", tick the box "Resample the frame rate of all video" & then render. It takes time depending on your CPU but it works!

Regards Phil C.
John_Cline wrote on 11/16/2002, 6:08 AM
I have tried going from NTSC to PAL and Vegas did not handle the interlacing well at all.

John
Finatic13 wrote on 11/16/2002, 11:59 AM
ive been doing NTSC to PAL and vice versa for the last 12 months, never had any problems whatsoever
regards
Si
PhilStorm wrote on 11/16/2002, 5:00 PM
I haven't had a chance to convert NTSC to PAL but I guess here in Australia we can play native (or pseudo) NTSC on our VCRs & TVs. With all the shows from U.S converted to PAL there is a definite loss of quality. Even the ones that are shot on film, they may be edited and mastered on video later so therefore the loss of quality during conversion.

Regards Phil C.