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Response to PAL vs. NTSC??

from Phil Glau (circusredk@aol.com)
Well, currently the easy way is to use one of the cheap consumer NTSC/ PAL dual standards VHS machines. (<$1000) The problem is that it looks like shit. Going from NTSC to PAl is more difficult to achieve acceptable results than PAL to NTSC. PAL is a higher resolution format and motion effect from 25 to 30 are not as noticable. The principle problem with NTSC to PAL is that you have motion artifacting as it trys to cram 30 frames into 25. The cheapy solution simple drops the frames as needed. More sophisticated solutions use methods to compensate for these artifacts, but cost big buck at high end post houses.

For very small sequences that you absolutely must have (10 to 30 seconds), you could probably rig a conversion in After Effects using frame blending and scaling.

Phil

(posted 9140 days ago)

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