PAL to NTSC conversion... at DVinfo.net

Cal Johnson · September 15th, 2006, 05:03 PM

Howdy! I have a request to post some video clips to an ftp site for some folks in China. Can I use Premiere 2.0 to convert NTSC footage to PAL?

Thanks

Trond Saetre · September 17th, 2006, 06:53 AM

I have done this from PAL to NTSC within Premiere Pro 2, so I believe it is possible the other way also.
But notice that the image quality will degrade.

Import your NTSC footage into a PAL project, and render to the format you want. Then the rendered file should be PAL.

Cal Johnson · September 17th, 2006, 10:05 AM

Trond, thank you for reply!

Liam Carlin · June 3rd, 2007, 08:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trond Saetre

I have done this from PAL to NTSC within Premiere Pro 2, so I believe it is possible the other way also.
But notice that the image quality will degrade.

Import your NTSC footage into a PAL project, and render to the format you want. Then the rendered file should be PAL.

Sorry to bump such an old thread but im the process of converting some NTSC footage into pal.

so all i have to do is create a new ntsc project (im using PP2 btw) bring in the footage and render it to 25fps.

are there any issues that i could arise from this?

Thanks :)

Liam

Trond Saetre · June 3rd, 2007, 08:33 AM

When converting from NTSC to PAL:
You must create a PAL project, and import your NTSC video.

Then you can just "export movie" to create a PAL version of your video.
(or use the media encoder just as you would do with a regular NTSC project)

Like I said in the previous post, your final video will lose some picture quality.
You might want to check out DVfilm's Atlantis software.
www.dvfilm.com/atlantis

This software reportedly gives better quality when converting between PAL and NTSC. (several people have mentioned Atlantis in other threads)

Liam Carlin · June 3rd, 2007, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trond Saetre

When converting from NTSC to PAL:
You must create a PAL project, and import your NTSC video.

Then you can just "export movie" to create a PAL version of your video.
(or use the media encoder just as you would do with a regular NTSC project)

Like I said in the previous post, your final video will lose some picture quality.
You might want to check out DVfilm's Atlantis software.
www.dvfilm.com/atlantis

This software reportedly gives better quality when converting between PAL and NTSC. (several people have mentioned Atlantis in other threads)

Thanks Trond! i have a lot of NTSC footage from Japan (im uk based) so its great i can convert it and it is so simply :)

Thanks Again and thanks for the link :)

Liam

September 15th, 2006, 05:03 PM	#1
Cal Johnson Major Player Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 180	PAL to NTSC conversion... Howdy! I have a request to post some video clips to an ftp site for some folks in China. Can I use Premiere 2.0 to convert NTSC footage to PAL? Thanks

September 17th, 2006, 06:53 AM	#2
Trond Saetre Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 3,375	I have done this from PAL to NTSC within Premiere Pro 2, so I believe it is possible the other way also. But notice that the image quality will degrade. Import your NTSC footage into a PAL project, and render to the format you want. Then the rendered file should be PAL.

September 17th, 2006, 10:05 AM	#3
Cal Johnson Major Player Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 180	Trond, thank you for reply!

June 3rd, 2007, 08:33 AM	#5
Trond Saetre Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Bergen, Norway Posts: 3,375	When converting from NTSC to PAL: You must create a PAL project, and import your NTSC video. Then you can just "export movie" to create a PAL version of your video. (or use the media encoder just as you would do with a regular NTSC project) Like I said in the previous post, your final video will lose some picture quality. You might want to check out DVfilm's Atlantis software. www.dvfilm.com/atlantis This software reportedly gives better quality when converting between PAL and NTSC. (several people have mentioned Atlantis in other threads)