DV-NTSC Project to PAL DVD

Here is what I intend to do:
Create a copy of the project file project_pal.fcp
In project_pal.fcp change easy setting to DV-PAL
Export sequences to quicktime
Use compressor to convert to DVD ready files
Author DVD w/ DVDSP
My questions are:
Where in here to I need to change any additional setting to make the DVD PAL ready? Is there anything in compressor or DVDSP I need to change or will exporting from a PAL project get that done?
Thanks!

Converting from NTSC to PAL is not a trivial bit of transcoding. There are disparate frame rates as well as different frame sizes. You can't just drop in a NTSC file in a PAL timeline and get good results.
There are three good ways to do it.
1. Purchase and use Graeme Nattress's Standards Convert plug in to convert the NTSC timeline to PAL on export within FCP.
or
2. Use Compressor's Advanced features to convert the exported NTSC file to PAL.
or
3. Take the file to a post house that can do a hardware based standard conversion.
Once you have the file in a PAL format, author a PAL disk and burn it within DVDSP.
Of course, the disk should be region free.
x

Similar Messages

How to convert my NTSC project to PAL?

Hi! I'd like know how i can convert my ntsc project into PAL.
I need finish a DVD for my client take to ANGOLA and there is PAL system.It is possible? My Encore is 2.0.
Or It is possible put my NTSC movie into PAL project and let encore transcode the movie? Thank you very much and sorry my english.

You have several options.
1 - Create a new PAL project in Premiere Pro. Capture your footage in the usual manner, and as soon as it is in the project, hit the ENTER key to render it.
2 - Create an NTSC project in Premiere Pro, capture to NTSC DV footage, and export it out again.
Close project.
Create new PAL project, import the NTSC clip & then interpret/conform the footage to the project settings.
3 - Set up an NTSC project, capture footage, export to PAL DV or MPEG-2 from Premiere.
4 - Use TMPGEnc Xpress 4 - it's standards conversion is very good.
5 - Use ProCoder, as Ruud suggests
6 - Use CCE SP if you have it.
I'd try as many different ways as you can, and view the lot to see what looks the best.

Convert NTSC project to PAL

I have a completed video project done in NTSC and want to make the identical project in PAL.
Is there a set protocol to accomplish this?
W

I have done it the other way, as I'm in the UK but you (unless someone can say otherwise) change the format from NTSC to PAL in Encore.
I have gone back into my Premier project and output the original footage from PAL to NTSC format, then dropped that into the Encore project, although you would have to resize your menu accordingly. Not a problem if it's just a basic menu with buttons.
I've found that most people these days have DVD players that play all region DVD's so this may not be a problem.
Hope that helps.

NTSC Project to PAL - Different than previous posting

I have a NTSC project in Encore 2.0. I rendered videos for it in NTSC and PAL from Premier.
My problem that I don't want to rebuild my entire DVD project in Encore just to link the PAL videos.
But, I haven't seen a way to export the project or save it as a PAL project.
Any tips or clues? I want the PAL project to be just like the NTSC project except to use the PAL clips instead of NTSC.
Chuck

Chuck,
With all due respect, did you read/understand BJ's post just above yours?
He describes what issues you will encounter with Encore or any software, and why, even if you could convert the video on the fly, the menus would need to be re-done from scratch.
Finally, no. There is no project setting you can change. You must start a new project. If you dig around in the project folder of the NTSC project, you can probably decipher which are the menu files. Maybe you can salvage something from that.
Best of luck,
Jeff

NEWBIE- CONVERTING NTSC PROJECT TO PAL USING COMPRESSOR (?)

Hi all- thanks for any help you can offer.
I am taking a project(instructional dvd) with six chapters that I have completed in NTSC. I was told that if I want to now go to PAL, that I could go back to final cut pro 5, make quicktime movies of each chapter then put them in compressor with pal settings and make mpeg2's out of them. Then I create a new dvd studio pro project in pal and go from there. When I did that (IS that the way to go?) it seemed as if compressor took waaaay too little time to compress the chapter. Just looking for some advice on the most sure fire way (short of importing and re-editing all my clips in final cut) to convert my ntsc quicktime movies to a pal format that I can use to make a pal dvd.
Thanks so much
suz6
g5 quad Mac OS X (10.4.9) final cut studio fcp 5/ pro dvd studio pro 4

Hi:
Read this recent post in Compressor forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1015451&tstart=0
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Convert Compact Camera NTSC Video to PAL DVD

Hi All,
I am trying to take video footage from my compact Canon digital stills camera, which is 640 x 420, 30fps AVI, and make it useable for a PAL DVD. I use FCP for my editing and normally DVDSP for DVD creation. In FCP, as I normally edit in PAL, the footage from my camera looked jerky, presumably as the frame rates were mismatched. I discovered that the preset NTSC 48k seemed to match it perfectly - frame size and rate, no jerkiness or disortion of the image.
The workflow from then on is pretty straightforward if I want to creat a NTSC DVD, but I was wondering if I can do anything to make it play correctly on a PAL DVD?
I have tried changing the frame rate and size/ratio in FCP to that of PAL before output - jerky result.
I have exported as a full res QT movie using the current project settings in FCP, but then can't use a NTSC file in a PAL DVDSP project
I then exported as a full res QT movie using project settings in FCP, created a new iDVD project in PAL, added my QT export, converted it in the program (why can't DVDSP do this??) and burned it. But when played back in a DVD player, the jerkiness is back.
I have discovered a way in Compressor that does an ok job of converting it, but it takes ages to render out even a short piece.
Is there an easier, less time consuming way that gives good results?

Hi,
First of all, almost all PAL DVD players have no problem playing NTSC DVD's so staying in NTSC would probably be ok.
Are you converting your media before importing into FCP, I don't know the format of the media your camera shoots but It won't be a format that works very well in FCP, you'll have problems.
If you really want to convert to PAL, Compressor will do that and someone familiar with the workflow may chip in. Good Luck.
DM

Exporting 23.98fps 720P project for PAL DVD

I'm trying to create a PAL DVD from a HDV 23.98fps 720P project and am having a few issues. All the footage is PAL and I am converting it to an SD file as it is for an SD DVD however exporting through FCP gives me black frames, using DVD studio pro to convert gives me a freeze frame effect (both of which I assume is through converting 23.98 to 25 fps) so I was told to use Compressor. I tried this but can only seem to render out a 23.98fps file as NTSC, whenever I switch it to PAL it automatically changes to 25fps as my only option.
Any help would be much appreciated as my deadline is looming.

Hi:
Are you sure that your footage is PAL 23.98 fps? I'm not involved with HDV but that sounds like NTSC frames.
What is the source of that footage?
Hope that helps !
Alberto

Converting h264 720p ntsc footage to pal DVD for a client and get no audio.

Hey,
I tried dropping the rendered video into the encoder first and then tried to render from the h264 timeline to a new PAL DVD file directly and neither one has audio.
Is there something I am missing?
Windows 7 ultimate
8 core AMD R9270x graphics card (Open Cl working great for rendering now)

Most DVD players can handle both PAL (Europe and other countries) and NTSC.
No practical method to change the frames per second rate without introducing other problems.

Outputting NTSC Sequence to PAL DVD at best quality

Hello all,
I am filming in NTSC but want to be able to output my finished sequence to a PAL DVD at the best quality possible. can someone suggest the best practice for this please. I use Premiere and Media Encoder for editing and outputting. Thanks

The PAL DVD player can play both formats, PAL and NTSC. There is hardware in the player to convert NTSC to PAL, so the TV does not need to play both formats, PAL is enough.
Software conversion in PR or other program will always have a hard time to get close or even meet the quality of the hardware converter.

Urgent: NTSC project with PAL VOB - weird symptoms

I need help with this in the next day, so I hope someone can respond quickly. (Encore CS3 on Windows XP)
I was sent a DVD with a video clip to which I need to add Japanese subtitles and show at a meeting in 36 hours, and then distribute about a dozen copies to others around Japan who will show it to other people. Although I knew it was sent from a PAL country, since it looked great on my computer, I assumed they sent me an NTSC version (I didn't realize how versatile PC-based players are - I'm smarter now). I made a new Encore project, put the VOB file in it, added my subtitles and made a simple menu, and burned a disk. I started to suspect something was odd when it took about a half hour to
transcode the 6 minute video - I was thinking that a VOB wouldn't need transcoding at all. Then when I played the disk on a regular player I could see the jittery movement, so I tried the original DVD (which of course wouldn't play) and realized that I had been working with PAL video all along.
The result of Encore's attempt to convert the video is tolerable for this purpose, especially on such short notice, but after the burn another problem appeared. I went back to my project to fix a couple subtitles, but in my timeline things started to act funny - after moving around my timeline just a little, suddenly the bounding box for the subtitles appeared much higher than where I put it and kinda squished vertically, as if it thinks the whole video frame is much vertically narrower than it really is (but the video doesn't squish; just the subtitles). Fortunately I had not saved since the burn, so I did a Save As instead, and compared the two projects. The original project with only pre-transcode data still acts okay, but the one saved post-transcode compresses the subtitle area, not immediately but after viewing just a couple spots on the timeline after opening the file.
I made the necessary edits on the original project file, and will burn another draft disk (going to bed rather than staying to watch it transcode again). But I would like to know:
Is this the best result I'm going to get with the available tools (PPro/Encore CS3, AE 6.0)? I did a search before posting, and everyone talks of DVFilm Atlantis, but I can't spare $200 right now. Actually, it looks better than I would imagine from reading DVFilm's description of how converted video looks
without their software, so either they make it sound worse than it is, or CS3 contains improved algorithms for this - to the casual eye it's only noticable in areas of faster movement.
Does anyone know what might be causing the shrinking subtitle problem in the project after transcoding? It would be nice to save my transcoded video and not have to start over every time. I want to also include another 14 minute video from the same DVD (without subititles), but then it would take a couple hours to transcode and burn each disk.
Thanks in advance for your quick help.

I had already tried changing the filename extension to MPG and importing into AE (see my previous post). That
definitely didn't work - it looked as if it took random frames from all over the video and interchanged them, as crazy as that sounds. Per your suggestion I used PPro as an intermediate step to change it to PAL AVI, and that was okay. But after AE changed that to NTSC AVI, the result is not as good as what Encore did. Encore's output just has jaggies where there is strong movement (like an oversized version of interlacing), but the AE attempt has a kind of temporal jerkyness - all movement stops and starts continually. Perhaps a newer version of AE would do better, but...
Never mind - for now I'll just use what I have, and I just finished an email to the people who made the video, asking if they can mail an NTSC DVD that I can use later (it'll take a while for mail from South Africa to Japan, so I'll have to wait a bit before making multiple copies of my DVD for distribution). Thanks for trying to help!

Final Cut Pro X how do you convert HD NTSC to SD PAL DVD

Aloha,
I have edited a video and wanting to export to PAL SD DVD. The video was shoot in NTSC HD and edited in the same format. When I select share / DVD I do not see the option to select export to PAL. I always export to SD DVD's but they default to NTSC so I never gave it much though until today....
Please advise and thanks!
Frederick

Aloha Tom,
Thanks for your feedback. I will give it a try and see if the clients have any problems playing the DVD. I have read a post that indicated PAL players can play NTSC DVD's, which is great!
I also wanted to be 100% sure that FCPX DOES NOT have the option to do this and you made it perfectly clear.
Thank you,
Frederick

Will DVD studio pro convert PAL for an NTSC project

Greetings. I am trying to create NTSC showreels from material that was filmed and captured as PAL. Will importing the PAL asset into an NTSC DVD-SP project mean that it will then encode an NTSC MPEG. Or should I convert the original movie in FCP? I am looking for the solution that requires the least time, as these showreel are needed urgently in the states.
The reason I ask is that as a result of technical inexperience of my colleauges a whole hard drive of PAL assets has been sent to the states in order to make showreels for the production companies directors. This included master Showreel Projects which are in PAL. I am not sure of the best way to unf*£$k the situation but hoped it would be as simple as changing the Disc setting to NTSC. Thanks so much for your help. Also If you know of any sites which could help clear this up with information or software...
Sorry I realise this is a fundamental question
Thanks again
Peter Stenhouse

I'm afraid not. It may even be the case that if you have your project set to NTSC it won't import PAL assets (We do all our encoding outside of DVD-SP and if you try and import PAL m2v's into NTSC project it won't do it).
The PAL assets will need to be converted either professionally by a facilities house which time base correctors and all those doodads or you could try using something like Graeme Nattress's convertor for FCP
http://www.nattress.com/standardsConversion.htm
never used them but heard they bare good (and not too expensive) though time consuming
It may be that you can do it directly in FCP but I seem to remember somewhere that it wasn't very satisfactory. At least you have the advantage that you have PAL resolution going to NTSC res and not the other way (which we have to deal with all the time in the UK - not hugely satisfactory)
Hope this helps
Steve Kirkham

Burning PAL dvd from NTSC FCP 6 project?

I need to burn a European market PAL dvd sample from a NTSC project. I've done this before for a European film festival, but it was a very hit or miss process.. Basically, back then, I mixed the project down as both PAL and NTSC files, then burned every combination of NTSC and PAL format DVDs (PAL file/PAL dvd format, NTSC file/PAL dvd format, PAL file NTSC format, and NTSC file/NTSC format).. I expected the PAL/PAL to work, but it didn't. In fact, I seem to remember that one of the combos that I least expected to work actually did.. maybe the NTSC/PAL disk (can't remember for sure)
Will someone please advise me as to the correct way to burn the NTSC project, such that it will be playable an European PAL format machines?

If you need a true PAL dvd, you need to convert your ntsc quicktime to a PAL quicktime using either compressor or something like graeme Natrresses standard conversion plug in. You will also need to recreate your dvd menus and reauthor the dvd.

NTSC project - PAL DVD

Hello,
I'm editing a project in NTSC (since I shot in NTSC), but my client is European and wants the final project on a PAL DVD. How can I output the project to PAL?
Do I convert it first in Final Cut (how is this done?) or does transfering the project to iDVD in PAL do the trick? It needs to be highest possible quality.
Thank you for suggestions and helpful 'how tos.'

on the basis of your need for highest quality, two options:
1- send a tape to a facility house who will standards convert the mataerial to a PAL tape which you can then import in a PAL sequence
2- purchase Nattress which is a software standards converter and a FCP plug-in,
it costs $100 and worth every cent
you could use Compressor, but for quality use Natress as it is a very high quality dedicated Standards Converter
once you have edited in a PAL sequence, compress to m2v and AC3 and import into DVDSP and author the DVD
all you need to know is on the web site:
http://www.nattress.com/Products/standardsconversion/standardsconversion.htm

Burn a PAL dvd from ntsc project

I have an NTSC project with all ntsc media and would like to burn a PAL dvd. what is the easiest way to do so. I converted the media to pal and was hoping to do a 'save as' on the dvdsp project and just change it to PAL but it won't except the media.
thanks
andy
dvdsp 4, 2.7 dual g5.

It makes sense that a PAL DVD project wouldn't accept media that's already compressed to MPEG2 in NTSC format. When the DVD is built, all it does is multiplex the audio/video. It doesn't change the compression or frame rate or size.
You'd probably need to recompress the original edited source video in Compressor to PAL format. Once you select a preset in Compressor, you need to change the Video Format from Automatic to PAL. Select the preset and in the Inspector, click the Encoder section, then the Video Format tab. Then you'll see the Video Format popup menu where you can change it to PAL.
One other thing to keep in mind: It might be a waste of time to convert it to PAL since most PAL DVD players can convert NTSC format DVDs on the fly during playback. I send NTSC DVDs to Hungary all the time and they have no trouble playing them with typical consumer PAL DVD players.

DV-NTSC Project to PAL DVD

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for