NTSC to PAL. Conversion?

[jcskeeter]

Did a search and couldn't come up with anything specific to my question.

First time dealing with anything to do with PAL so a couple questions came up in discussion.:huh:

We have a client that is going to be sending a video we made, to Sweden.
Shot on DVCPro50 NTSC.
Does there have to be any type of conversion for the swedes to view the video. We were going to output to tape but our decks are NTSC. So that wouldn't work, right? Can I nest my NTSC sequence into a PAL sequence and export a quicktime? Would that be an appropriate "conversion"? Or should we just do a regular NTSC export and let them handle the standards conversion, if there needs to be one? Thanks for your help.
:dankk2:

 

[stuckfootage]

What format are the Swedes requesting? Do they want DVDPRO50?

A couple of thoughts: you could ask the Swedes if they have a DVDPRO50 NTSC deck.
Maybe if they have a big production house, they might. Then you could just print to tape.

Otherwise you could send them a disk file with the file encoded in DVDPRO50 PAL.
Compressor will do a better conversion than FCP. Below are some settings
I stole from dvinfo.net.

Les

 

[jcskeeter]

I think I will be sending these on a disk ultimately. It looks like those are settings for DVD? What if I wanted to keep it in the DV realm. Just import NTSC into compressor, choose DV PAL and that should do it?

 

[DVXguy]

if you have after effects, you could find a tutorial on videocopilot.net.. otherwise I convert to PAL all the time and use the nattress plug-in.

 

[jcskeeter]

Ahhhhh perfect. Once again, Andrew Kramer to the rescue. Sweet Thanks

 

[Andy Olson]

Using After Effects to convert NTSC to Pal is common. You bring in the NTSC footage and interpret to 25p and put it on a 25p sequence then export. You have to adjust the audio by 4% to match as well.

Another way is to use a program like DVFilm Atlantis to do the conversion. Atlantis does frame by frame analyzing to maintain the best quality and motion. You can try it out at the DVFilm site and there is a 25% discount now until Xmas.

Best,
Andy