Apple tv 2nd. PAL og NTSC?

we in norway use PAL. wil the US apple TV work in norway? does it support PAL?

dq46 wrote:
@Chenks
Are you sure about that? Trying to get to the bottom of excessive picture noise issue I have (rented a HD movie and get a 'swimming pixel' effect).
I see from your signature you have 2 ATV's - are these 1st generation? I believe you have option to choose NTSC or PAL (60Hz Vs 50Hz) in settings with 1st gen device. This choice not available in the ATV2 as far as I'm aware. When I connect the ATV2 my 1080p LCD settings auto change to "1278x720 @ 60Hz" which suggest NTSC is default.
I'm not certain - but I think this maybe the cause of my picture noise. If this is the case then hopefully a firmware update may fix this.
Be sure to let Apple know:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
As you say the new unit seems to default to 720p 60Hz from what people can tell and there are no adjustments unlike the 1st gen.

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Is there a difference between usa and uk apple tv in terms of Pal and ntsc or they both exactly the same ?

My mate just brought me back an apple TV 3 from America and I have plugged it into my pal projector but the colours look a bit weird, I wanted to know if im imagining it or is there a difference between the USA and UK apple TV. does one have pal and one have ntsc? if so how do I change the USA one to pal ?

Winston Churchill wrote:
I'm not sure what you are trying to tell us, there are no PAL and NTSC settings on the Apple TV, only 50/60 Hz and that has nothing to do with colour.
I thought the OP was asking WHAT the difference between PAL & NTSC is, that is why I posted the links I did.
Maybe I misunderstood the question.

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Hi everyone,
I'm trying to use Nattress's Pal to NTSC converter & the clip got more blurry & degrading than the original PAL source. Has anyone has this same problem?
My setting:
put the source field order as UPPER & destination as LOWER
De-interlace option as NORMAL. (also tried SMART too)
Gconverter also add in the fields SHIFT direction, I chose: +1 for the first attempt, -1 for 2nd, & non for the 3rd, but still get the blurriness look (kind like degrading the image)
Is it because of the FIELD order, or De-interlace OPTION?
or should I try PROGESSIVE OUPUT option too?
I left the pulldown offset as 0
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Remove the Apple shift fields filter - let the plugin handle all the field stuff.
PAL to NTSC shouldn't be blurry - are you viewing out of the NTSC monitor, not relying on the FCP preview? NTSC to PAL can be a touch soft, and with that I normally drop the motion blur to around 15% to get it looking better.
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Thank you for your reply. I would have checked that prior to asking but the DVDs I am asking about are consumer burned ones and not commercial DVD's. Anyway, after doing additional research, I found that when opening Apple's DVD player software, one can get information about the inserted DVD under File, Get Disk Info.
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Hello. I am having problems editing a video shot in Sony hdr-hc3 PAL version. I captured in hdv and edited. In the timeline I put 25 frames per second. 1440 x 1080. 16x9... Compression HDV 1080i50
Well, I exported everything. Export/Current Settings. Then I burnt a dvd with dvd studio pro and when I look the video in the TV it looks really really interlaced. Everytime there is movement, the image looks double. Well, I have tried with after effects to remove the pull down but it's not useful. It seems it's not really a interlace problem because when I say to guess pulldown... it doesn't appear anything. I also tried with cinema tools... i did the reverse telecine... but doesnt work... or at least i dont have any idea what i have to do...
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As a last resort (in case you are stuck which is a common fate of most users when dealing with this horrible legacy of NTSC frame rates) you have a simple solution that will produce flawless, no hiccups conversion from PAL to NTSC. You will need sufficient space, patience and willingness to accept 4% change in pitch.
a) edit your footage in 25 progressive. Export it as image sequence. Export audio separately.
b) In QTP import image sequence to NTSC frame rate 23.976. Add your audio (SCALED) to your movie.
c) Import your movie to 23.976 FCP sequence.
d) export it NTSC mpg2, which will add standard pulldown to bring it to 29.97.
(all this can presumably be done in FCP, if only one could figure out how!)
(Note to Apple.Please kindly note that 24 is not 23.98 nor it is 23.976, Your documentation is all over the place with no rhyme or reason. 24 can mean (FTC, QT) 24 or 23.976. Strangely 23.98 seems to be always used to denote 23.976. This is not nice nor professional and is awfully confusing)

Good old PAL to NTSC

Ok I have to convert Pal to NTSC and then burn to DVDSP. Is what Im doing correct and giving me the best possible quality?
1, Cut my master piece in fcp and exported it with QT (pal) 15GB
2. Opened compressor 2 and used advanced format conversion DV NTSC
3. Change file format to mpeg2 (in the inspector)
4. 1 pass VBR best (in the inspector) - is this the best/normal setting
5. Thus got a summary saying something like this - please forget the est file size as I used small clip to get same info
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Description: DV/DVCam NTSC with 48kHz stereo audio
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Estimated file size: 5.91 MB
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Off
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Progressive scan
Average data rate: 5 (Mbps)
1 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.5 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
It is saying it will take 4/5 hrs to encode this. Do I then import this asset into DVDSP with NTSC mode on and build and burn my DVD? Ship it to the states and never have to worry about doing this crap again.
Owen

If you are planning to use Compressor's default PAL-to-NTSC preset then I'd do a short test to look at the quality of the conversion. I believe that the conversion presets that Apple offers use a low quality setting which may not produce results to your liking (others have reported so).
In any case, you can change Apple's presets to give higher quality but the processing times will increase dramatically. As an alternative, you might want to give the freeware utility JES Deinterlacer a try. JES does fast, good quality deinterlacing and standards conversion (PAL to/from NTSC) and it's a free download from places like VersionTracker.com.

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We shoot and edit in PAL on FCP and output to Quicktime MOV. When I convert the MOV to MPEG2 NTSC in Compressor I am getting some bad shuddering on any camera pans.
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As a last resort (in case you are stuck which is a common fate of most users when dealing with this horrible legacy of NTSC frame rates) you have a simple solution that will produce flawless, no hiccups conversion from PAL to NTSC. You will need sufficient space, patience and willingness to accept 4% change in pitch.
a) edit your footage in 25 progressive. Export it as image sequence. Export audio separately.
b) In QTP import image sequence to NTSC frame rate 23.976. Add your audio (SCALED) to your movie.
c) Import your movie to 23.976 FCP sequence.
d) export it NTSC mpg2, which will add standard pulldown to bring it to 29.97.
(all this can presumably be done in FCP, if only one could figure out how!)
(Note to Apple.Please kindly note that 24 is not 23.98 nor it is 23.976, Your documentation is all over the place with no rhyme or reason. 24 can mean (FTC, QT) 24 or 23.976. Strangely 23.98 seems to be always used to denote 23.976. This is not nice nor professional and is awfully confusing)

Burning converted PAL to NTSC movie file on to DVD

Hi.
I'm having a few problems based around standards conversion from PAL to NTSC. I have some old home movies (PAL footage from my time in Europe) which I have been editing in iMovie. I have (I think) successfully converted the finished project into an NTSC format. However, when I burn to DVD in iDVD I am getting nasty red and green vertical lines ruining the picture when played in my home DVD player. This disfiguration seems to be triggered or coincides with any peak in the audio.
Is this a PAL -> NTSC standards conversion problem? A problem with the file I am burning to my DVD through iDVD, or a problem with my home set up? Needless to say the movie plays fine on my Mac and my home set-up plays other commercial DVD's perfectly.
Any ideas?
Thanks and Happy New Year.
Tom

Hi tommycrops
Welcome to apple discussions. I suggest narrowing the issue down as much as possible ... one idea is to make a disc image to the desktop of the finished iDvd. Test playback with apple's dvd player. Assuming it plays as expected then burn to Verbatim Dvd-R at 4x.
Also make sure all energy saver controls (in system pref's) are set to Never while working within iDvd. Disconnect all external third party devices prior to burning the dvd.
If none of the above works for you then go back to your original iMovie project file, check all movie properties and try to open it within QT Pro/player prior to burning. You'll need to verify playback prior to burning.

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Please can someone help. I have been using iDVD 5.0.1 absolutely fine. No glitches. Burned a lovely DVD using iMovie and iDVD in PAL.
Now upgraded to iLife 06 and new iDVD. Using same old movie (made in iMovie 5.0.2) I get this error message all the time:-
TV Standard Conflict?
It seems that we are burning a NTSC movie on a PAL disc. Proceed with burning?
I have set my Preferences on PAL, I have set my Project Info on PAL. I can't find anything in iMovie to change to PAL and never had this problem in the older iDVD version.
I want to use the new iDVD but have had to go back and find the older app of iDVD to do the work I want.
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In iMovie, there is something you can change to PAL.
When you first create a project, there is an options
tab. Click it, and a drop down menu comes up. There
are multiple options like "DV", and "iSight". Select
what you want it to be compatible with. Then, once
the main window comes up, there are multiple menus at
the top. I can't remember which one (I'm not on my
mac right now), but under one of them you can find
the Project info. You can then select the type of
project (NTSC or PAL) in there. There may be an
option when you first create the project, to select
this (once again, I can't remember; I'm not on my
mac).
Hope this helps.
On the face of it, you advice should help. I've just spent an hour getting frustrated in trying to get iMovie to create an empty project in PAL format.
The difficulty is caused by the appallingly poor labelling Apple has used in providing those options in Preferences. Yes, indeed I have the choice of 29.97 fps or 25 fps. Had Apple added something like 'for NTSC' 'for PAL', it would be much clearer for unwary users. Choices need to have some clues attached to them that can indicate the relevance of the choice to the user. I was looking for a choice relating to PAL and NTSC. I did not know that the fps options were essentially the same thing in different clothing.
The really irritating aspect to all of this is that the information in Help Viewer talks about the choice, but fails to mention how you can choose between the two systems.
I feel better now.
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I render a 2hr show from PAL to NTSC & it takes 33hrs. Is this the correct #?
thankx
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Sounds about right......what is the speed of your processor?
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