pal or ntsc? another point of view

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DrBlaz

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hi, I've been lurking for months and this is my first message, like many people here I'm thinking about getting the PAL or the NTSC version, of course I've read a lot of threads about pal-ntsc-film conversion :)

I really don't want to make a film for now, may be a short or a documentary, so the problem is not the conversion to 24p, but I would like that the HD final result can be easily converted to PAL or NTSC. So the question is doing it in 25p or 30p with the pal or the ntsc cam version. If didn't misunderstanding anyything 24p to/from 25p does not seem to be a problem, perfect conversion frame by frame.

I have no special requirements for high fps, so 24p/25p would be fine and it will simplify a lot the editing and the special effects.

I'd been doing some tests with a simple video of a painted rectangle coverting it 24p to and from 30p, and I think I like more the 24p converted to 30p than the 30p converted to 24p, but really I have zero experience about this, may be a 30p converted to 50i looks better on a tv.

please any thoughts about using the pal version at 25p or the ntsc at 30p?



thanks and excuse my english!
 
30P is pretty much a dead end when it comes to frame rates as far as I know.
You can't cleanly transfer it to much of anything.

Yes yes - people will probably come out of the woodwork now to tell me that it can be done. Yes, it can be done...but it's not too pretty.

I assume from your post that you are in a PAL based country?
If that's the case I would go with the Pal model camera.

As you said, 25P can be pretty easily converted to 24P frame by frame.
Though if it's really a big concern, you might want to look at other cameras that offer PAL and NTSC as an option.
(such as Canon's XLH1)
 
thanks, what I'm reading about this issue point me to the same direction ,about choosing another camara like z1 offering pal and ntsc, the problem would be the same , cause doing the same work two times is not an option.

BTW I'm living between two countries, one is PAL the another NTSC, this is why I want the best possible conversion.


I'm doing more testings with downloaded videos, but probably the best would be choosing the 25p pal version.


best regards
 
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