how do chaps!
not sure if this is a simple, easy, or stupid question, but im getting far too tired to solve this on my own and hope that someones wisdom can help me out.
The problem is that I have an NTSC camera living in the UK (stupid move I know, but I'm poor and it was so much cheaper) and have finishd filming on it. The editing is done, but now we need to get it onto a PAL DV tape and also on to a DVD. It's been filmed in true widescreen, but even exporting it as an NTSC file on my pc is stretching it when I play it back using mediaplayer. I'm using Premier 6.5 and it plays back fine in that, correct size and everything.
So, any ideas?
thanks muchly
"It's so allowed it's no longer any fun!"
yeh i need to know that too.
The easiest solution would be to send an NTSC DV tape to a professional post-production house and get them to convert it to PAL for you with a high-quality conversion box. It will probably cost in the region of fifty pounds for one tape, though you may be able to talk them down if you can plead poverty convincingly.
I'm not sure whether there's any way to get Premiere to do it for you, or how good it would look in comparison if there is. I haven't found any free software on the web which will do standards conversion for DV.
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even exporting it as an NTSC file on my pc is stretching it when I play it back using mediaplayer
DV is always squashed in 'widescreen' mode: it will play fine on a widescreen TV if you put the TV into 16:9 mode.
Burn it onto a DVD from the computer and problem solved.
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Burn it onto a DVD from the computer and problem solved.
Unfortunately DVDs also have the PAL vs NTSC issue too. Somewhere along the line you have to do the NTSC - PAL conversion.
Moral of the story is, only buy NTSC if you live in an NTSC region. Any money you save on equipment will evaporate after conversion costs (not to mention the hassle factor), and NTSC is an inferior standard anyway.
Ben C.
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