NTSC for PAL users ?

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As almost all threads regarding HVX PAL prices in Europe show there would be significant price difference between NTSC price in US/CANADA and PAL in Europe. Reading more and more I get the PAL-crazy idea to purchase the NTSC version from EVS (as Barra in a different place argues, besides the obvious point that I do not want to pay some 1000 or more EUR for the basically same thing I feel something pretty repulsive in the idea to give so much money to customs -government mafiosi around, calling themselves "authorities"). This way I get

1) significant difference in price, 2) good service, 3) 24p!.

What I do not get is

1.1) PAL.

Question is: how much of a trouble converting NTSC to PAL really is? In my case every now and then I plan on doing some financial jobs for home TV channels which of course has to be PAL but would I really lose so much time, efforts and eventually quality if i shoot all in NTSC and then post convert to PAL? Would the footage be worse than PAL shot footage, etc?

Lets us not forget that besides price we get also 24p which is not that bad either.

 

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Question is: how much of a trouble converting NTSC to PAL really is? In my case every now and then I plan on doing some financial jobs for home TV channels which of course has to be PAL but would I really lose so much time, efforts and eventually quality if i shoot all in NTSC and then post convert to PAL? Would the footage be worse than PAL shot footage, etc?

Lets us not forget that besides price we get also 24p which is not that bad either.

I'm assuming by the references to PAL and NTSC (and European broadcasters at the moment) that you are talking about Standard Definition shooting. In such a case I doubt home TV channels will be very happy with NTSC originals. There will be a quality loss, as well as a loss of convienience, and I suspect they are likely to just ask why not use a PAL camera in the first place?

In Europe 24p just doesn't have the relevance that it does in 60Hz countries. And one of the main interesting features of the HVX is that it will produce HD. Whilst "NTSC" and "PAL" are terms which only have meaning in the Standard Definition world, HD does come in 50 and 60Hz flavours, and if you live in Europe it's sensible to go for a 50Hz variant.

If you did a lot of work for visiting US networks, say, a 60Hz version of the HVX200 may make much sense. Otherwise I'd go for one which is SD PAL/50Hz HD.